This collection of essays by a renowned scholar in this field focuses on one of the most important thinkers of the medieval, or indeed any, age.

With essays on the Implications of Augustine's Conversion; contrasting approaches to immaterialism and materialism in Augustine and Eriugena; the creation of man and woman; the Confession of St Patrick and the Confessions of St Augustine; Toynbee and St Augustine; the Platonist-Augustine inheritance of St Thomas; pagan attitudes in Christian love.