
The Augustine Podcast
A monthly podcast featuring conversations about the life and thought of Augustine of Hippo
Latest episodes

Nov 14, 2024 • 1h 13min
Dr Andrew Chronister - Augustine in the Pelagian Controversy
Dr Andrew Chronister is Associate Professor of Patristics and Ancient Languages at Kenrick-Gennon Seminary in Saint Louis. He is the author of Augustine in the Pelagian Controversy: Defending Church Unity.
Dr Chronister's Book:
https://www.cuapress.org/9780813238722/augustine-in-the-pelagian-controversy/
Dr Elizabeth Klein - Augustine's Theology of Angels:
https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/augustines-theology-of-angels/9DA93A262D33E4D9984E898858920600
Dr Charles Kim - The Way of Humility: St Augustine's Theology of Preaching:
https://www.cuapress.org/9780813237398/the-way-of-humility/

Oct 23, 2024 • 1h 9min
Professor Michael Cameron - Christ Meets Me Everywhere
Dr Michael Cameron is Emeritus Professor of Historical Theology at the University of Portland and the Author of Christ Meets me Everywhere: Augustine’s Early Figurative Exegesis.
Christ meets me Everywhere:
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/christ-meets-me-everywhere-9780199751297
Sophie Van Der Meeren - Entrer en philosophie: La fonction psychagogique des premiers “Dialogues” d’Augustin:
https://www.brepols.net/products/IS-9782851213235-1
Paul Kolbet – Augustine and the Cure of Souls:
https://undpress.nd.edu/9780268033217/augustine-and-the-cure-of-souls/
Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception:
https://www.degruyter.com/serial/ebr-b/html?lang=en

Oct 5, 2024 • 1h 4min
J. Warren Smith - Augustine and the Pursuit of Greatness
Joshua sits down in person with J Warren Smith
J. Warren Smith, professor of historical theology, is interested in the history of theology broadly conceived from the apostles to the present, but his primary focus is upon patristic theology. Pursuit of Greatness is a work in the history of Christian theological ethics that examines how Ambrose's and Augustine's theological commitments influenced their different critiques, appropriations, and modifications of the language of magnanimity
J Warren Smith's Book:
https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/ambrose-augustine-and-the-pursuit-of-greatness/115A831D68D4A5FB84A90CF657A596AC
David Maconi's, On Self-Harm, Narcissism, Atonement, and the Vulnerable Christ:
https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/on-selfharm-narcissism-atonement-and-the-vulnerable-christ-9781501326202/

Sep 14, 2024 • 48min
J. Patout Burns - Augustine's Preached Theology
Joshua talks with Prof Patout burns about Augustine's preached theology and what it means to live together as the body of Christ.
J. Patout Burns Jr. is the Edward A. Malloy Professor Emeritus of Catholic Studies at Vanderbilt Divinity School and Visiting Professor of Theology at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author of Cyprian the Bishop and the Church's Bible volume Romans: Interpreted by Early Christian Commentators, and he is the coauthor, with Robin Jensen, of Christianity in Roman Africa: The Development of Its Practices and Beliefs. Today we discuss his book, Augustine's Preached Theology: Living as the Body of Christ.
Patout Burns - Augustine's Preached Theology:
https://www.eerdmans.com/9780802880222/augustines-preached-theology/
Ty Paul Munroe - Putting on Christ:
https://www.cuapress.org/9780813235486/putting-on-christ/
Andrew C Cronister - Augustine in the Pelagic Controversy
https://www.cuapress.org/9780813238722/augustine-in-the-pelagian-controversy/
Patrick H Byrne - Toward Environmental Wholeness:
https://sunypress.edu/Books/T/Toward-Environmental-Wholeness

Aug 25, 2024 • 1h 5min
Dr Kevin Grove - Augustine on Memory
Joshua talks with Dr Kevin Grove about Augustine on Memory, Confession, and the Totus Christus.
Dr Kevin Grove is Assistant Professor of Systematic Theology at the University of Notre Dame and a Member of the Congregation of the Holy Cross. Today we discuss his book, Augustine on Memory.
Augustine on Memory:
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/augustine-on-memory-9780197587218
Patout Burns: Augustine's Preached Theology
https://www.eerdmans.com/9780802880222/augustines-preached-theology/

Apr 1, 2024 • 53min
Dr Augustine M Reisenauer - Augustine's Theology of the Resurrection
Joshua chats with Augustine M Reisenauer about Augustine and Resurrection.
Augustine M. Reisenauer is a Dominican friar and Assistant Professor of Theology as Providence College in Providence Road Island. He is the author of Augustine's Theology of the Resurrection.
Dr Reisenauer's Book:
https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/augustines-theology-of-the-resurrection/2F5EEE4CE70E18855279ACFB5980BE07
Maria Boulding's Gateway to the Resurrection:
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/gateway-to-resurrection-9781441169518/
Kevin Grove: Augustine on Memory
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/augustine-on-memory-9780197587218

Mar 13, 2024 • 57min
Dr. Eric L Saak - Augustine and Augustinianism in the Later Middle Ages
Joshua speaks with Dr. Eric L Saak about Augustinianism in the Later Middle Ages.
Dr. Saak is Professor of History at the Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis. He is the author of High Way to Heaven. The Augustinian Platform between Reform and Reformation, 1292-1524. Brill Academic Publishers: Leiden (2002), and Creating Augustine. Interpreting Augustine and Augustinianism in the Later Middle Ages. Oxford University Press: Oxford, 2012; Catechesis in the Later Middle Ages vol. 1: The Exposition of the Lord’s Prayer of Jordan of Quedlinburg, OESA (d. 1380)–Introduction, Text and Translation. Brill Academic Publishers: Leiden, 2015; Luther and the Reformation of the Later Middle Ages. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, 2017. Co-editor of and major contributor to The Oxford Guide to the Historical Reception of Augustine, 3 vols. (Oxford, 2013).
Dr Saak's Book:
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/creating-augustine-9780199646388
Rob Lane Fox: Augustine: Conversions to Confessions
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Augustine-Conversions-Confessions-Robin-Fox/dp/0465022278#:~:text=Book%20overview&text=In%20Augustine%20%2C%20the%20acclaimed%20historian,and%20a%20life%20of%20celibacy.

Feb 28, 2024 • 1h 9min
Dr Sarah Stewart-Kroeker - PIlgrimage as Moral and Aesthetic Formation
Joshua speaks with Dr. Sarah Stewart-Kroeker on Pilgrimage, Ethics, and Beauty.
Sarah Stewart-Kroeker is the Associate Professor of Early Christian Theology. She received degrees from McMaster University, Yale University, and Princeton Theological Seminary. Stewart-Kroeker's work has been largely focused on Augustine and Augustinianism (both historical and contemporary), Her most recent book is Pilgrimage as Moral and Aesthetic Formation in Augustine’s Thought.
Dr. Stewart-Kroeker's book:
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/pilgrimage-as-moral-and-aesthetic-formation-in-augustines-thought-9780198804994
Toni Alimi - Slaves of God:
https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691244235/slaves-of-god
Matthew Elia- The Problem of the Christian Master:
https://yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300266597/the-problem-of-the-christian-master/

Jan 17, 2024 • 1h 1min
Dr Han-Luen Kantzer Komline - Augustine on the WIll
Joshua talks with Dr. Han-Luen Kantzer Komline about Augustine and the Will!
Dr. Han-luen Kantzer Komline joined the faculty at Western Theological Seminary in 2014. She is the author of Augustine on the Will: A Theological Account (Oxford University Press, 2020; paperback edition, October 2023), which received the Lautenschläger Award for Theological Promise in 2020. Her research focuses on early Christian theology. Many of her publications concern topics in Augustine or his relationship to other thinkers, ranging from Ambrose and Cyprian to Karl Barth and Marilynne Robinson. She has also published on more recent figures such as John Calvin, Jürgen Moltmann, and Erich Przywara. Kantzer Komline’s research has been supported by fellowships from the Fulbright Commission (2008-2009), the Louisville Institute (2015-2017), the Augustinian Institute at Villanova (2020), and the Humboldt Foundation (2022-2023). Her current book project, The Idea of the New in Early Christian Thought, analyzes how Christians of late antiquity conceptualized and defended the innovative character of the Christian faith.
Dr. Kantzer-Komline's book:https://global.oup.com/academic/product/augustine-on-the-will-9780190948801?cc=gb&lang=en&
Michael Cameron - Christ Meets Me Everythere:
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/christ-meets-me-everywhere-9780199751297?cc=gb&lang=en&
Kevin Grove - Augustine on Memory:
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/augustine-on-memory-9780197587218?lang=en&cc=gb

Nov 15, 2023 • 55min
Dr. Matthieu Pignot - The Catechumenate in Late Antique Africa
Joshua sits down with Dr. Matthieu Pignot for a talk for which he's unqualified concerning catechumism in Late Antique Africa.
Dr. Pignot is a historian by profession, currently serving as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Namur, Matthieu Pignot obtained his doctorate in history at the University of Oxford in 2016, with a thesis entitled: “The catechumenate in late antique Africa: Augustine of Hippo, his contemporaries and early reception (ca. 360-530 AD)”. Previously he completed a MSt at the University of Oxford in Late Antique and Byzantine Studies in 2012, a MA in Ancient Mediterranean and Near-Eastern Studies and a BA in History at the Université Catholique de Louvain in. His main interests lie in the history of late antique and early medieval Christianity in the West, in particular initiation to Christianity, Christian education, hagiography, sermons, the figure and works of Augustine of Hippo, and the reception of late antique works in the middle ages. Within the project he focuses on Latin evidence, in particular hagiography and literary sources from Italy and Gaul. He is particularly interested in the writing and re-writing of biographies and martyrdom accounts, and in their manuscript transmission in the middle ages. Today we are discussing his book The Catechumenate in late antique Africa.
Dr Pignot's Book:
https://brill.com/display/title/57595
Dr. Pignot's recommendation: Robin Fox's Augustine: Conversions and Confessions:https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/robin-lane-fox/augustine/9780465093854/