Learning in Wartime

Wrestling with Augustine and The City of God

Episode Summary

In this episode, we wrestle with Augustine and his work - The City of God. Annie Ballard and Russell Hendrix join the discussion today!

Episode Notes

In this episode, we wrestle with Augustine and his work - The City of God. Annie Ballard and Russell Hendrix join the discussion today! 

Together we consider the following questions: 

• Who was Augustine and why does he matter to the Church today? 
• Why did Augustine write The City of God?
• What are the key themes of The  City of God?
• Does anything in The City of God in particular, or in Augustine in general, speak to classical and Christian education that we would be advised to consider?  
• Why should the common Christian read City of God? If someone's overwhelmed by its length, where do you recommend he or she start?

Special Guests: 

• Annie teaches Latin at Providence Academy and holds a masters in biblical and theological studies from Moody Bible Institute.
• Mr. Hendrix holds multiple degrees in theology and boasts a full life of studying, thinking, and teaching about Scripture and theology. His focus over the years has been in Patristics (the early church theologians) and historical theology.