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Unpleasant Medicine

Christopher Kelly: Augustine in Africa, 25 June 2026

Augustine the African 
by Catherine Conybeare.
Profile, 268 pp., £25, August 2025, 978 1 78816 750 5
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... in the breadth of his interests and the originality of his thought.One of the strengths of Catherine Conybeare’s new book is that she remains unintimidated by all this achievement. Her focus isn’t on Augustine’s contributions to Western thought, or on his shaping of Christian theology, but on teasing out his identity as ‘both an African ...

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