Robert Dodaro is Professor of Patristics at the Patristic Institute, the Augustinianum, in Rome. He is the co-editor of Augustine: Political Writings (2000). George Lawless is Professor of Historical Theology at the Patristic Institute, the Augustinianum, and Adjunct Professor at the Gregorian University, Rome. He is the author of Augustine of Hippo and his Monastic Rule (1987).

'... [the book] makes for a fitting tribute to an excellent scholar.' - Augustine Casiday, Heythrop Journal'The various authors of this collection have done justice both to the critics and to the bishop of Hippo. Gerald Bonner can be congratulated on such a token of honour.' - BMCR

• List of contributors, Acknowledgements, Abbreviations, Introduction, PART I If Plato were alive, PART II The order of love, PART III We are the times, Index

Robert Dodaro is Professor of Patristics at the Patristic Institute, the Augustinianum, in Rome. He is the co-editor of Augustine: Political Writings (2000). George Lawless is Professor of Historical Theology at the Patristic Institute, the Augustinianum, and Adjunct Professor at the Gregorian University, Rome. He is the author of Augustine of Hippo and his Monastic Rule (1987).

'... [the book] makes for a fitting tribute to an excellent scholar.' - Augustine Casiday, Heythrop Journal'The various authors of this collection have done justice both to the critics and to the bishop of Hippo. Gerald Bonner can be congratulated on such a token of honour.' - BMCR

• List of contributors, Acknowledgements, Abbreviations, Introduction, PART I If Plato were alive, PART II The order of love, PART III We are the times, Index

Robert Dodaro is Professor of Patristics at the Patristic Institute, the Augustinianum, in Rome. He is the co-editor of Augustine: Political Writings (2000). George Lawless is Professor of Historical Theology at the Patristic Institute, the Augustinianum, and Adjunct Professor at the Gregorian University, Rome. He is the author of Augustine of Hippo and his Monastic Rule (1987).

'... [the book] makes for a fitting tribute to an excellent scholar.' - Augustine Casiday, Heythrop Journal'The various authors of this collection have done justice both to the critics and to the bishop of Hippo. Gerald Bonner can be congratulated on such a token of honour.' - BMCR

• List of contributors, Acknowledgements, Abbreviations, Introduction, PART I If Plato were alive, PART II The order of love, PART III We are the times, Index