Presents the best scholarship on Augustine's Confessions which will facilitate a better understanding of this masterpiece.

This second edition of the Companion has been thoroughly revised and updated with eleven new chapters and a new bibliography.

Books V-IX of the Confessions trace five crucial years in the life of Augustine, from his debut as a teacher of rhetoric in North Africa to his baptism as a Chr

Masterfully explains Augustine's major work The City of God book by book through engagement with theology, history and political science.

A Companion to Augustine presents a fresh collection of scholarship by leading academics with a new approach to contextualizing Augustine and his works within t