On my occasional trip plodding slowly through the Church Fathers, I’ve finally finished the last and longest Augustine volume containing his sermons on the book of Psalms. Frankly, this book is fantastic. Oh, don’t get me wrong. It has all of Augustine’s normal exegetical weaknesses. He is far too prone to allegory, he wants to force the text into his existing theological framework, and he’s working with a poor translation of Scriptures into Latin. For more on all of that, see... Read more