Studying Augustine of Hippo in the 21st century. A Plea for a Renewed Augustinology

Bestselling author Tom Holland described in his 2019 monograph Dominion what he considers to be the paradoxical situation that, despite pervasive secularization of West, Christianity comprises most influential development history West. That Christian transformation antiquity apparently still influences we think about people and society today. One authors Late Antiquity that regularly quotes is Augustine Hippo. For philosophers theologians it beyond dispute this ‘church father’ stood at cradle Latin Christianity, although they are not always entirely happy this. The latter discomfort often has do with Augustine’s radical thinking a comprehensive divine grace, implies, according him, for ongoing human failure.