Augustine: Conversions to Confessions may be informative to the nth degree, but it's not dense. Robin Lane Fox says he wrote this biography for all readers -- even those in a post-Christian age who do ...

Though labeled a biography, this book on the fourth-century North African saint is better read as a complex study of the man and his thought. Eschewing a chronological cradle-to-grave narrative, ...

“St. Augustine Reading the Epistle of St Paul,” by Benozzo Gozzoli (Wikimedia Commons) Many years ago, I had the opportunity to teach a course on spiritual memoir at a Jesuit university. Eighteen ...