The Augustine Podcast

Stanley Hauerwas is the Gilbert T. Rowe Professor Emeritus of Divinity and Law. Hauerwas originally taught at the  University of Notre Dame  before moving to  Duke University . Hauerwas was a longtime professor at Duke, serving as the Gilbert T. Rowe Professor of Theological Ethics at  Duke Divinity School  with a joint appointment at the  Duke University School of Law . In 2014, he also assumed a...

Dr. Erika Kidd is an Associate Professor of Catholic Studies. She studied philosophy, Latin, and great texts at Augustine College and Baylor University and received her PhD in philosophy from Villanova University. She is the author of Intimacy and Intelligibility: Word and Life in Augustine's De Magistro: https://undpress.nd.edu/9780268210212/intimacy-and-intelligibility/ Ratzinger's Daugh...

Joseph H. Sherrard  (PhD, University of St. Andrews) has been pastoring for nearly twenty years and currently serves as pastor of discipleship at Signal Mountain Presbyterian Church in Signal Mountain, Tennessee. He is a senior fellow of the Center for Pastor Theologians and serves as a guest lecturer at Reformed Theological Seminary, Orlando. He is also the author of  T. F. Torrance as Missional...

Dr Knight is an instructor at longwood university and the author of Seeing, Knowing, BecomingSense Perception as Metaphor in Augustine. https://www.baylorpress.com/9781481321556/seeing-knowing-becoming/ Christ Meets Me Everywhere: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/christ-meets-me-everywhere-9780199751297?cc=us&lang=en& My Info for questions and comments: Josh. Blanchard@ciu.edu Jabla...

Fr Allan Fitzgerald is an Augustinian in the Order of Saint Augustine and Director of Special Events at the Augustinian Institute at Villanova University. He is also editor of Augustine Through the Ages, An Encyclopedia https://www.eerdmans.com/9781467427197/augustine-through-the-ages/ https://www.villanova.edu/university/institutes-centers/augustinian-institute.html We information for foodback an...

Dr. Peter Kreeft is a professor of philosophy at Boston College, and author of over 100 books on philosophy, theology, and the Chirstian life. Particularly, he is the author of I Burned for Your Peace: Augustine's Confessions Unpacked. https://ignatius.com/i-burned-for-your-peace-ibypp/ https://peterkreeft.com/about.htm - My email, for questions, comments, and ideas, or if you just want to connect...

Dr Matthew Elia is assistant professor of theology, race, and environment at Saint Louis University. He is author of the Problem of the Christian Master, Augustine and theafterlife of slavery. My email, for questions, comments, and ideas, or if you just want to connect: Josh. Blanchard@ciu.edu My website, for more information or to book speaking: JaBlanch.com Matt's Book: https://yalebooks.yal...

Dr Ty Monroe is Associate Professor and Department Chair of Theology at Assumption University. He holds a PhD from Boston College and is the author of Putting on Christ: Augustine's Early Theology of Salvation and the Sacraments. https://www.cuapress.org/9780813235493/putting-on-christ/

Toni Alimi is Assistant professor in Religion and the University Center for Human Values. He joined the faculty at Princeton in 2025. His research and teaching span ancient Roman philosophy (specializing in Lactantius and Augustine), intellectual history (focusing on freedom, slavery, law, rule, and authority), contemporary ethics and politics (idem), and philosophy of religion. He is the author o...

Dr Andrew Chronister is Associate Professor of Patristics and Ancient Languages at Kenrick-Gennon Seminary in Saint Louis. He is the author of Augustine in the Pelagian Controversy: Defending Church Unity. Dr Chronister's Book: https://www.cuapress.org/9780813238722/augustine-in-the-pelagian-controversy/ Dr Elizabeth Klein - Augustine's Theology of Angels: https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/augu...

Dr Michael Cameron is Emeritus Professor of Historical Theology at the University of Portland and the Author of Christ Meets me Everywhere: Augustine’s Early Figurative Exegesis. Christ meets me Everywhere: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/christ-meets-me-everywhere-9780199751297 Sophie Van Der Meeren - Entrer en philosophie: La fonction psychagogique des premiers “Dialogues” d’Augustin: ht...

Dr J. Warren Smith, professor of historical theology, is interested in the history of theology broadly conceived from the apostles to the present, but his primary focus is upon patristic theology. Pursuit of Greatness is a work in the history of Christian theological ethics that examines how Ambrose's and Augustine's theological commitments influenced their different critiques, appropriati...

J. Patout Burns Jr. is the Edward A. Malloy Professor Emeritus of Catholic Studies at Vanderbilt Divinity School and Visiting Professor of Theology at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author of Cyprian the Bishop and the Church's Bible volume Romans: Interpreted by Early Christian Commentators, and he is the coauthor, with Robin Jensen, of Christianity in Roman Africa: The Development o...

Joshua talks with Dr Kevin Grove about Augustine on Memory, Confession, and the Totus Christus. Dr Kevin Grove is Assistant Professor of Systematic Theology at the University of Notre Dame and a Member of the Congregation of the Holy Cross. Today we discuss his book, Augustine on Memory. Augustine on Memory: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/augustine-on-memory-9780197587218 Patout Burns: Au...

Joshua chats with Augustine M Reisenauer about Augustine and Resurrection. Augustine M. Reisenauer is a Dominican friar and Assistant Professor of Theology as Providence College in Providence Road Island. He is the author of Augustine's Theology of the Resurrection. Dr Reisenauer's Book: https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/augustines-theology-of-the-resurrection/2F5EEE4CE70E18855279ACFB5980BE07 M...

Joshua speaks with Dr. Eric L Saak about Augustinianism in the Later Middle Ages. Dr. Saak is Professor of History at the Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis. He is the author of High Way to Heaven. The Augustinian Platform between Reform and Reformation, 1292-1524. Brill Academic Publishers: Leiden (2002), and Creating Augustine. Interpreting Augustine and Augustinianism in the Late...

Joshua speaks with Dr. Sarah Stewart-Kroeker on Pilgrimage, Ethics, and Beauty. Sarah Stewart-Kroeker is the Associate Professor of Early Christian Theology. She received degrees from McMaster University, Yale University, and Princeton Theological Seminary. Stewart-Kroeker's work has been largely focused on Augustine and Augustinianism (both historical and contemporary), Her most recent book is Pi...

Joshua talks with Dr. Han-Luen Kantzer Komline about Augustine and the Will! Dr. Han-luen Kantzer Komline joined the faculty at Western Theological Seminary in 2014. She is the author of Augustine on the Will: A Theological Account (Oxford University Press, 2020; paperback edition, October 2023), which received the Lautenschläger Award for Theological Promise in 2020. Her research focuses on early...

Joshua sits down with Dr. Matthieu Pignot for a talk for which he's unqualified concerning catechumism in Late Antique Africa. Dr. Pignot is a historian by profession, currently serving as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Namur, Matthieu Pignot obtained his doctorate in history at the University of Oxford in 2016, with a thesis entitled: “The catechumenate in late antique Africa: Augusti...

Joshua speaks with professor Charles T. Mathewes. Dr. Mathewes is the Carolyn M. Barbour Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Virginia, where he teaches religious ethics, theology, and philosophy of religion. He earned his B.A. in Theology from Georgetown University, and his M.A. and Ph. D. in Religion from the University of Chicago. From 2006 to 2010, Professor Mathewes served as e...

In this episode, Joshua talks with Dr. Alex Fogleman about catechesis in the first centuries of the Christian Church. Dr. Fogleman is Assistant Research Professor of Theology at the institute for studies of religion at Baylor University where he is the Project Manager for the Global Flourishing Study He received a BS in Business Administration from NC State University, an MDiv from Regent College,...

In this episode, Joshua sits down to talk with Dr. Terence Sweeney. Dr. Sweeney is an assistant teaching professor in the Honors Program and Humanities Department at Villanova University. He received his PhD from Villanova, holds an MA in philosophy from Loyola Marymont Univeristy and an MA in Catholic Studies from the University of St Thomas, and a Bachelors in History from Providence College. Go...

Professor James Wetzel, Ph. D. is a Professor of philosophy at Villanova University, where he holds the Augustinian Endowed Chair and is the Director of the Augustinian Institute. He holds a BA from Princeton University and a PhD from Columbia University. His research focuses on Augustine and Platonism, Moral Psychology, the metaphysics of evil, and mysticism and mythology. Professor Wetzel's book...

Today Joshua sits down to talk with Dr. Mary M Keys about her new book Pride, Politics and Humility in Augustine's City of God Dr. Keys is a professor of theology at the University of Notre Dame, focusing on the History of Christianity She holds a BA from Boston College and a MA and PhD from the University of Toronto. Her research and teaching interests span a broad spectrum of political theory, w...

In this episode, Joshua sits down with Dr. John Cavadini to discuss his essays, teaching, and approach to intellectual life. John C. Cavadini is a Professor of Theology at the University of Notre Dame, having served as Chair from 1997-2010. Since 2000 he has served as the Director of the McGrath Institute for Church Life at Notre Dame. He received a B.A. in 1975 from Wesleyan University; an M.A. i...