In this short episode, Ian Clary and Wyatt Graham talk about Dr. Coleman Ford's new book on Augustine and friendship called,"A Bond between Souls." Dr. Ford was a guest on the podcast earlier this year, and we could not be happier for him to publish this new book with Lexham Press.   Here is the link to Dr. Ford's book: https://lexhampress.com/product/224279/a-bond-between-souls-friendship-in-the-letters-of-augustine Also, here is a link to Dr. Clary's work on Augustine, "God Crowns His Own gifts": https://hesedandemet.com/product/god-crowns-his-own-gifts-augustine-grace-and-the-monks-of-hadrumetum/

Ian and Wyatt invited Dr. Caleb Cohoe to help guide us (and you) through some of the trickier philosophical contexts in the Confessions. We talk about Epicureanism, Stoicism, and Neoplatonism (and more) to help make sense of the world Augustine lived in. As well, we tackle the question of why Book 10-13 differ from Book 1-9 in the Confessions. See Dr. Cohoe's website at: http://www.ccohoe.com/.

Ian and Wyatt briefly discuss and recommend Scott Swain's new book, The Trinity: An Introduction.

Ian and Wyatt briefly discuss and recommend Dietrich Bonhoeffer's work Psalms: The Prayer Book of the Bible.

In this episode, we discuss book XI of Augustine's Confessions in which explores time and God's eternity.

In Book X of Augustine's Confessions, Augustine spends a considerable amount of time trying to understand his memory and how God can be in the memory when God is not an object of our experience. We don't see or taste God like we do food. He is not an emotion. He is not something normal in our experience. Yet we can know him. How? The answer involves God being nowhere in particular but everywhere present.

In this episode, Drs. Ian Clary and Wyatt Graham discuss Book Ten of Augustine's Confessions. They provide an introduction to the idea of memory in this lengthy chapter. In short, Augustine reflects on memory and the mind to explain how he came to know God and how others might do the same.

In this episode, Ian Clary and Wyatt Graham discuss Book 9 of Augustine's Confessions. Here, Augustine finally receives the waters of Baptism. But on the way to Africa, tragedy hits. His mother Monica dies.

Under the fig free in Milan, God answers Augustine's prayer. Finally, as Augustine turns to Scripture, he can find rest for his weary soul in the unchanging God of the Bible. In today's episode, we discuss Book 8 of Augustine's Confessions.