Augustine

St Augustine the churchman and theologian has always been acknowledged as a major figure in the history of western Christianity. In our secular age, Augustine the philosopher is less generally acclaimed, although some of his theological philosophy richly deserves the attention of a wider audience than students of the philosophy of religion. Augustine's personal religious experience urged him to extricate himself from scepticism, and led him to study types of knowledge, the nature of man, the universe, and creation, the mind/body problem, the nature of time, and the problem of free will. Christopher Kirwan looks at these major themes in Augustine's work through the critical eye of the modern philosopher.