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 ...

LITTLE ROCK — Restless Heart: The Confessions of St. Augustine is a condensed version of a 2010 Italian miniseries. It’s a curious project, a Catholic feature that’s not quite of a piece with most ...

The Confessions of Saint Augustine Saint Augustine - Confessions is an autobiographical work by Saint Augustine of Hippo, consisting of 13 books written in Latin between AD 397 and 400. The work ...

In which, in the moment of confession, two figures emerge: the apologist and human self-portraiture. From the very beginning self-scrutiny is a danger zone. St Augustine by Sandro Botticelli In his ...

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 ...

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 ...

Vanity of vanities, the way we praise great books. Think of Coleridge and his famous "smack of Hamlet," or of some of the encomiums in this very series: When we seek to praise, we invoke the ...

With the exception of the Bible, perhaps no work has received as many and as various interpretations as Augustine's Confessions. Yet, despite the plethora of studies from a variety of disciplines, ...

Augustiniana is a peer-reviewed scholarly journal devoted to the study of Saint Augustine, the Augustinian Order, Augustinianism and Jansenism. It was founded by N. Teeuwen OSA, and became a platform ...

Christian saints fall into different categories. There are the worthy saints much favoured in the 19th century, usually virginal young women who led pure lives before succumbing to a dreadful illness ...