Ever Ancient, Ever New | Bryan Kerns
2 . 22 . 21 Teaching Augustine on a college campus is an especially interesting experience these days. I get to expose students to Augustine, his life, world, thought, assumptions, and influence, which is reward enough, but I also get to watch them begin to question their own assumptions as they engage with this figure from the past who feels at once so distant and so close. To use the words of the great master himself: ever ancient, ever new. While preparing for class recently, I came across a chapter of Peter Brown’s 1967 masterpiece Augustine of Hippo. I found myself gripped by his des...
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