Theology for transitional times
Book Review: Catherine Conybeare’s Augustine the African
Colleen Mitchell on Catherine Conybeare's new biography of Augustine
Petrarch and Augustine: Taking It Personally
Meredith Gill considers how Petrarch and Augustine built the modern "I"
Laura Loving Well: Petrarch Composing Through Augustine
Sarah Faggioli and Elizabeth Anderson dialogue on Petrarch's Augustinian interpretation of just and poetic love
Grace as a Global Perspective
Paul van Geest reflects on Augustine's view of an interdependent grace
A Pause for Thought — Reflections on an Augustinian Pope
Fr. Allan Fitzgerald reflects on the selection of Pope Leo XIV
On the Way with Augustine
As part of our regular contributions to this blog, we invite authors from diverse disciplines and backgrounds to reflect on their journey with Augustine by responding to this question:
In what way has Augustine or someone he has provoked or inspired been a pivotal figure for you?
Between Belief and Understanding
Brian McCaffrey on becoming comfortable with ambiguity
Augustine, Love, and Hitting Home Runs
Michael Cameron on Augustine as spiritual preceptor
Give What You Were Given
Fr. Thomas Esposito on teaching and preaching Augustine
A Transformative Text
Kaley Carpenter on challenging conversations
Writing in Figures
Erika Kidd on philosophy as story
Companioning
William Desmond on Augustinian itineraries
“Augustine the African Book Event 9/12: Villanova Hosts Catherine Conybeare
Augustine of Hippo (354-430) remains one of history’s most influential theologians. His writings, including the autobiographical Confessions, helped shape the foundations of Christianity and Western philosophy.
Yet while his ideas stand the test of time, key aspects of his life – including his North African birth and Berber heritage – have gone unexamined for centuries. In her new book Augustine the African, historian Catherine Conybeare, PhD, Bryn Mawr College, uses surviving letters and other evidence to retrace Augustine’s roots, painting a groundbreaking portrait of the wandering saint’s ethnic identity.
Dr. Conybeare and fellow historian and classicist James O’Donnell, PhD, Arizona State University, will discuss this latest work.
Presented by Villanova University’s Augustinian Institute and co-sponsored by the Lepage Center, this will be a live, in-person discussion at 4:00 p.m. on Friday, September 12th in Room 132 of Driscoll Hall at Villanova University.
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