The teenage theft of pears from an orchard is the springboard for Garry Wills' latest exploration of Augustine of Hippo's "Confessions." In "Saint Augustine's Sin," the award-winning historian ...
'When we see Pope Leo XIV weep holy tears before the Eucharist — the Doctor of Grace calls such tears 'the heart’s blood' — we can see something of the way that the Pope is a genuine son of Augustine.
The new book by Dr. Jared Ortiz of the Hope College religion faculty suggests a new approach to St. Augustine’s “Confessions” by framing the famous text within the context of the early Christian saint ...
Rare is the spiritual character whose life story is deserving of nearly 700 pages of inquiry. But St. Augustine, the bishop of Hippo in ancient North Africa and author of the 13-volume Christian ...
I try to squeeze Augustine’s Confessions into many of the courses I teach. Sometimes this works out pretty well. I once spent a semester inviting first-generation college students on the southwest ...
Sixteen centuries after they were written, St Augustine’s Confessions might induce in the secular reader a bout of faith-envy. The poignancy in Emil Cioran’s observation hits home: “Obviously God was ...
Documentaries can feel like exercises in, at best, information dumping—and sometimes, manipulation. Films like this year's Blackfish, which examines the treatment of killer whales at Sea World, seek ...
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