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.