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 ...

Somehow I made it through two seminary degrees and almost two decades of pastoral ministry without reading The Confessions of Augustine. Having read the book over the last month, this is equal parts ...

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 ...

The new book by Dr. Jared Ortiz of the Hope College religion faculty suggests a new approach to St. Augustine’s “Confessions” by framing the famous text within the context of the early Christian saint ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Before me as I write lies a book – or should I call it a relic? Augustine’s Confessions in the Oxford paperback edition, ...

Reza Alizadeh is the translator of the book, which was originally published in 2005. Augustine’s “Confessions”, written at the close of the fourth century CE, is a highly significant text in the ...

Augustine’s Confessions is not an under-translated book. A reader limiting herself to modern translations could avail herself of the English vicar J. G. Pilkington’s late 19th-century effort; the ...

Augustine is a two-part, Italian-made mini-series about the influential theologian and church father St. Augustine of Hippo. The piece tells the story of his life from a teenager to his death at the ...

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 ...