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The continuing appeal of Augustine lies in being a challenging theologian (his ideas on grace and free will persist as part of modern debate) but, even more than that, in his spiritual autobiography the Confessions, as a very human being, reflecting on his ideas and experiences. His dates are 354‐430CE, long ago it seems, but his engagement with community in the church and society, with ideas about what is orthodox and reasonable in the Christian faith (and what is heretical, as in his debates about Donatism and Manichaeism), and in the transparency and authenticity of the tone of the...
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