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 ...

Written in about A.D. 400, ‘Confessions’ details how God worked in the saint’s life and reads not just as a story but as a ...

Augustine: Conversions to Confessions by Robin Lane Fox, Basic Books, 688 pages, $35 Rare is the spiritual character whose life story is deserving of nearly 700 pages of inquiry. But St. Augustine ...

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 ...

St Augustine by Sandro Botticelli In his Confessions, the bishop of Hippo invokes the God he loves, calling him unceasingly in the vocative: Tu Thou or You. Augustine searches his heart, his ...

By Herman M. Lagon If saints had yearbooks, Augustine of Hippo’s senior quote might be: “Lord, grant me chastity and ...

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 ...

Thank ourselves we're such open-minded people. We can look past Augustine's getting the conversion experience backward because there's so much else in the Confessions that compels, endears, smacks.

For one thing, I'm most familiar with Augustine's Confessions. For another, Wills's combative tone is welcome in a discussion of a book one would not have thought could elicit quite so much passion.