AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO
By Henry Chadwick
Oxford University Press. 168 pages. £8.99
ISBN 978-0-19-958806-0
This book is not just a delight, it is a treasure. What one gets is really a ‘buy one get one free’ sort of deal.
First, you have the life and ideas of one of the greatest writers the church has ever known whose thinking moulded giants like Luther and Calvin and changed the course of history. Second, you sit at the feet of a consummate teacher, Henry Chadwick, whom Peter Brown (no less) describes as ‘the unsurpassed expositor in our times of the thought of the Early Christians and of their pagan contemporaries’.
