Abstract

This is the 1965 Saint Augustine Lecture, the seventh in the annual series. It would have been difficult to find someone more knowledgeable on Augustine's thought than M. Marrou, and the result is something of a synoptic view of Augustine's thought through the unifying perspective of his theology of embodiment. The whole of this very short book is executed with such scholarly ease and impressiveness that Marrou's conclusion after only twenty nine pages that Augustine is the precursor of modern personalism seems in need of no more justification.—E. A. R.