Professor Rist questions the assumption that the texts of the Gospels of Maark and Matthew are explained in terms of direct literary dependence. He argues that Matthew and Mark gospels…

This volume traces the distortion of Augustine’s moral thought from the twelfth century to the present day and examines the consequences of replacing it with increasingly secular and impersonal moral…

The Reading Augustine series presents concise, personal readings of St. Augustine of Hippo from leading philosophers and religious scholars.

John Rist takes the reader through Augustine’s ethics, the arguments he…