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Why and how to read Augustine’s Confessions

February 6, 2021 Dr. Jared Ortiz 6

In the comments to my recent CWR article on different translations of the Confessions, a reader related the common experience of trying to read Augustine and giving up. “The time to read and digest the […]

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What translation of Augustine’s Confessions should I read?

January 25, 2021 Dr. Jared Ortiz 22

Most scholars think that Augustine composed the Confessions in a four year period between 397 and 401, but the most compelling suggestion is that he wrote it in a two week period in 397 when […]

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St. John Henry Newman’s Apologia revisited

June 21, 2020 Edward Short 7

In 1864, in response to the novelist Charles Kingsley’s allegation in Macmillan’s Magazine that “Truth for its own sake was never a virtue with the Roman clergy” and that “Father Newman informs us that it […]

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Frank Gehry and the Quest for Transcendence

March 8, 2019 Bishop Robert Barron 10

Though I reside in Santa Barbara, I am in Los Angeles a good deal for meetings and other events. When I’m in the city, I like to walk the downtown neighborhood. My favorite building to […]

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Peter Kreeft’s book introduces readers to the brilliance—and questions—of St. Augustine

May 5, 2017 Paul Senz 0

St. Augustine was undoubtedly one of the most brilliant and gifted men to have ever lived—and we are fortunate that he left such a wealth of his brilliance in his many and varied writings. A […]

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