Christian History Magazine—Issue 67: St. Augustine: Sinner, Bishop, Saint (Biblia.com)

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He was a brilliant theologian whose mind raged over a vast array of issues with incomparable depth and dexterity. He was a regal bishop, an ecclesiastical authority, who refined the teachings of the church. And he was a fallen human being who struggled with common weaknesses: sex, vanity, self-recriminations, anger and depression. Christian History & Biography offers this issue as an informed...

run-of-the-mill weaknesses: sex, vanity, self-recriminations, a hot temper, and bouts with despair. Though his insights have shaped Western thought for more than 1,500 years, he was a searching, confused, and waffling young man on his way to his conversion: see Robert Payne’s article, “The Dark Heart Filled with Light.” Though he exercised his authority as bishop in teaching and administering, he was always sensitive to the pastoral dimension of his office: see Bruce Shelley’s article, “The Bishop

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