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 ...

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 ...

I try to squeeze Augustine’s Confes­sions into many of the courses I teach. Sometimes this works out pretty well. I once spent a semester inviting first-generation college students on the southwest ...

It had to have been 1971 or '72. Augustine's Confessions had been assigned alongside other primary sources as required reading in an early medieval history class at California State University, Los ...

“[Augustine] doesn’t really talk about the things you expect in an autobiography. He doesn’t talk about his sister, his brother. He talks about his mother just briefly, when she dies…He was the court ...

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 ...