New City Press: Black Friday/Cyber Monday Sale
New City Press Black Friday/Cyber Monday Promotion Details“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.
New City Press: The Augustine Sampler Sale
having a 30% off sale on The Augustine Sampler (The Confessions + The City of God).Augustine Lecture Series with Fr. Robert Dodaro Fall 2025
Join us for a public online (Zoom) lecture!
The City of God
A Contemporary Reading of Augustine's Political Vision
with
Rev. Dr. Robert Dodaro, OSA
Visiting Professor of Theology, Newman Theological College
Sept. –Dec. 2025, Tuesdays 8:30 A
M – 11:25 AM (Edmonton Time)
REGISTER FREE OF CHARGE HERE: https://forms.gle/qb6yrWzuNhduuNTD7 or EMAIL pablo.irizar@newman.edu
Lecture Series Schedule
Sept 9 – Introduction to Saint Augustine
Sept 16 – Political Leadership
Sept 23 – Fear of Death and National Security
Oct 7 – Christianity and the Just Society
Oct 14 – The City of God and the Earthly City
Oct 21 – Church and State
Oct 28 – Public Confession and Statecraft
Nov 4 – Heroism in Society
Nov 18 – Christ and Justice
Nov 25 – Saints and Sinners
CONVENERS
Pablo Irizar (Vice President & Academic Dean, Newman Theological College) ˑ Anthony Dupont (Augustine Chair & Research Professor of Christian Antiquity, KU Leuven) ˑ Harry Schnitker (Senior Lecturer in Church History at St. Mary’s University, PhD program director at Maryvale Institute) ˑ Mateusz Stróżyński (Director & Professor of Classics at the Institute of Classical Philosophy, UAM) ˑ Paul Camacho (Associate Director at the Augustinian Institute & Professor of Philosophy, Villanova University) ˑ Richard Dougherty (Dean of Braniff Graduate School & Professor of Politics, University of Dallas) Edmund Stewart (Associate Professor of Ancient Greek History & Collaborator of Tyrannica at the Centre for Spartan and Peloponnesian Studies, University of Nottingham)
New City Press Flash Sale on Augustine’s Sermons
on all Augustine’s sermons! Happening now until May 19.Augustine Masterclass | “Portraits of Grief: Augustine as Student of Loss”
- Date: Wednesday, May 14, 2025
- Time: 1:00 PM EST (90 minutes)
- Format: Introductory remarks, passage commentary, live Q&A
- Panelists: James K. A. Smith, Paul Camacho, Colleen Mitchell, Allan Fitzgerald, O.S.A., James Wetzel, and Jessie Pagan
To learn more about the webinar and register, visit this link.
Focolare 30% Off Sale on The Works of Saint Augustine
New Edited Volume on “Augustine and Ethics”
Be sure to check out Augustine and Ethics, a newly released volume in the Augustine in Conversation: Tradition and Innovation Series by Lexington Books. Edited by Sean Hannan and Kim Paffenroth, this volume:
"includes reflections on virtue and vice, love and sin, and the political outcomes to which certain ethical stances tend to give rise. For Augustine himself, ethics was never merely theoretical. Ethical concerns are concrete; and ethical solutions should be practical. Accordingly, this volume gives Augustinian ethical arguments realization by connecting them to modern anxieties about ministry, health care, diet, and incarceration."
Source: Augustine and Ethics, Lexington Books