Commentary

• “Eloquent Lies, Just War and the Politics of Persuasion: Reading Augustine’s City of God in a ‘Postmodern’ World”

  - Dodaro, Robert. “Eloquent Lies, Just War and the Politics of Persuasion: Reading Augustine’s City of God in a ‘Postmodern’ World.” Augustinian Studies, Vol. 25 (1994), pp. 77-137.  

• The City of Man

  - Manent, Pierre. The City of Man. Trans. Marc LePain. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998.  
  From the Publisher: “The “City of God” or the “City of Man”? This is the choice St. Augustine offered 1500 years ago–and according to Pierre Manent the modern West has decisively and irreversibly chosen the latter. In this… More

• Augustine and Postmodernism: Confessions and Circumfession

  - Caputo, John & Michael Scanlon, eds. Augustine and Postmodernism: Confessions and Circumfession. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2005.  
  From the Publisher: “At the heart of the current surge of interest in religion among contemporary Continental philosophers stands Augustine’s Confessions. With Derrida’s Circumfession constantly in the background, this volume takes up the… More

Multimedia

• “The Relevance of Augustine For Young Adults Today”

  - Tack, Theodore. “The Relevance of Augustine For Young Adults Today.” Lecture delivered to Villanova University, Studies in Augustinian Spirituality, 2009.  
  Description: “In this engaging lecture, Rev. Theodore Tack, OSA, will present a cogent argument for why the life of Augustine is still relevant to Villanova University and every member of the campus community. Fr. Ted has been an Augustinian for over 60… More