Theology for transitional times

September 21, 2023

Upcoming Eric Gregory St. Augustine Lecture 9/28 and Livestream Link

This year's St. Augustine Lecture, sponsored by the Augustinian Institute, will be delivered by Eric Gregory on Thursday, September 28 at 7:30 PM in Driscoll Hall 134 at Villanova University.  The title of his talk will be "Remythologizing Augustine: History and Politics at the Edge of Time." The event is open to the public and can be accessed via livestream at this link.

Eric Gregory is Professor of Religion at Princeton University. He is the author of Politics and the Order of Love: An Augustinian Ethic of Democratic Citizenship. Gregory is on the board of the Journal of Religious Ethics and sits with the executive committee of the University Center for Human Values.

We encourage you to attend the event either in person or via the livestream!

August 28, 2023

New Augustine Translation from New City Press

Our friends at New City Press and cosponsors of The Augustine Blog have exciting news on the Feast of St. Augustine! The Augustinian Heritage Institute (AHI) and New City Press are translating to English the entirety of Augustine’s writings in the landmark series The Works of Saint Augustine: A Translation for the 21st Century. Today they are announcing that the 45th volume in the series will be published on November 15th. The new volume is titled Morality and Christian Asceticism and it contains these eight writings by Augustine:

•  Lying (De mendacio)
• Against Lying (Contra mendacium)
• The Christian Combat (De agone christiano)
• The Work of Monks (De opere monachorum) 
• The Advantage of Fasting (De utilitate jejunii)
• Patience (De patientia) 
• The Care to Be Taken of the Dead (De cura pro mortuis gerenda)
• Instructing Beginners in Faith (De catechizandis rudibus)

The book is now available for preorder at the New City Press website and other sites. New City Press is also offering the book for free as part of their Installment Plan for purchasing the complete set of the series.

We will have more about this book in the weeks to come!

August 28, 2023

Celebrate the Feast Day of St. Augustine!

We at the Augustine Blog wish you a blessed feast of St. Augustine!

"Because, I think, in your Gift we find rest, and there we enjoy you. Our true place is where we find rest. We are borne toward it by love, and it is your good Spirit who lifts up our sunken nature from the gates of death. In goodness of will is our peace. A body gravitates to its proper place by its own weight. This weight does not necessarily drag it downward, but pulls it to the place proper to it: thus fire tends upward, a stone downward. Drawn by their weight, things seek their rightful places. If oil is poured into water, it will rise to the surface, but if water is poured onto oil it will sink below the oil: drawn by their weight, things seek their rightful places. They are not at rest as long as they are disordered, but once brought to order they find their rest. Now, my weight is my love, and wherever I am carried, it is this weight that carries me."