Since the first edition of Peter Brown’s magisterial Augustine of Hippo: A Biography in 1967, interest in the life, work, and thought of Saint Augustine has exploded across Catholic and Protestant circles, and across large swaths of the university disciplines. This is a welcome revival, in my view, for at least three reasons. First, in…

Our word “hypocrite” comes from a Greek word that meant “actor,” that is, one who wore a mask and pretended to be other than they were. Contrasting Saul’s repentance to that of David in 2 Sam 12:13, Anglican preacher and expositor Andrew Willet (1562–1621) criticizes Saul’s confession, believing it to be that of a hypocrite:…