Rowan Williams was Professor of Divinity at Oxford before becoming Bishop of Monmouth in 1992. After ten years as Archbishop of Canterbury, he became Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge, in 2013, and is internationally well-known as a theologian, poet and commentator on current affairs.
Rowan Williams is a superb and sophisticated advocate for Augustine against his critics ... His On Augustine is a brilliant example of how classical Christian theology thinks for the present by close re-reading of great thinkers of the past. Professor Frances Young, University of Birmingham This book is one of the most substantive, wide-ranging and provoking theological engagements with Augustine's corpus available in English - and it is one of Williams' finest theological texts. Augustine is embraced, but also creatively stretched and resisted; to watch this movement is to see Williams performing his vision of how the Christian tradition should be engaged. Lewis Ayres, Professor of Catholic and Historical Theology, University of Durham This is a book that I have been waiting all my adult life to read - though I did not realise it ... Again and again, I put this book down and wished that it were compulsory reading for all those who, in our public forum, think that they are engaging in intelligible conversations when they are merely mouthing sounds. -- A N Wilson New Statesman