St. Augustine Series

St. Augustine, for all that he’s immersed in a disintegrating world, has at the same time quite succeeded in transcending it—thanks to the grace of a conversion that will literally lift him above circumstance.

For St. Augustine, there are but two characters that matter above all in the human story: God and the Self.

St. Augustine had to face the threat that never goes away: the menace of heresy.

Who among us is erudite enough to set about measuring the immensity of the achievement wrought by Augustine, whose depths clearly defy one’s best efforts to plumb?