St Augustine

Out of this world: The Suicides, by Antonio di Benedetto, reviewed

7 December 2024 9:00 am

Written as Argentina descended into the Dirty War, this eerie fable about a reporter investigating a spate a suicides is thrillingly original

Circular arguments

1 July 2023 9:00 am

Aristotle had long proved that the Earth was spherical, and even the illiterate masses of early medieval Europe were aware of the fact, says James Hannam

Sail away from the safe harbour

29 October 2022 9:00 am

Here’s a treat for Christmas: a bona fide literary treasure for under a tenner. And a handsome little hardback, too,…

Between Heaven and ‘L’

11 July 2015 9:00 am

A.N. Wilson has had a tempestuous journey on the sea of faith. His first port of call was St Stephen’s…

The influence of money: a donor who helped build the fifth-century Basilica of Aquileia is commemorated in a mosaic portrait

Early Christian alms race

11 April 2015 9:00 am

Peter Brown’s explorations of the mindsets of late antiquity have been educating us for nearly half a century, ever since…

Letters

11 October 2014 9:00 am

Faith and flexibility Sir: What a contrast in your two articles on religion last week: one liberal atheist parent (Claire…

Man between vice and virtue in St Augustine’s City of God. French incunabulum from Abbeville, 1486-87

Christianity’s moral revolution

22 February 2014 9:00 am

If there is one underlying source from which all our other societal problems stem, it is surely this: we no…