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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Augustine's Confessions is meant for the general reader. Though Wills is carrying on a kind of military manoeuvre against certain readings of Augustine's work, the language is clear and Wills's ...