Why Does Augustine Matter?

In Why Does Augustine Matter? renowned theologian and former Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams offers a profound meditation on St. Augustine of Hippo's enduring relevance, exploring how Augustine's insights on memory, identity, desire, and divine grace speak powerfully to our contemporary struggles.

Drawing from Augustine's Confessions and his theology of the Trinity, as well as The City of God and other works of Augustine, Williams presents this ancient thinker not as a historical relic but as a spiritual companion for those wrestling with questions of authenticity, humility, social cohesion, and hope in today's fractured world.

Rowan Williams was born in South Wales and studied theology in Cambridge and Oxford. He was Professor of Divinity at Oxford from 1986 to 1992, Bishop of Monmouth in Wales from 1992 to 2002, Archbishop of Canterbury from 2002 to 2012, and Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge, from 2013 to 2020.