violence that certain critics of the Christian past are quick to make. Augustine was and is not responsible for Hiroshima or Auschwitz or Batoche:3 specific and real actors in modern world history were, and we continue to be.4 One of the best remedies to the past’s ills is to understand our Christian past with greater nuance. This involves seeing the teachers of the past as caught in theological and moral struggles analogous to our own; as confronted, as we are, with a dramatically compelling gospel;