Gooday, gooday, gooday, welcome to Pines with Aquinas. My name is Matt Frad, and today I will be joined around the bar table by Dr. Chad Engeland from the University of Dallas to discuss St. Augustine, and in particular, St. Augustine's most classic work, The Confessions.

Thomas Aquinas obviously held St. Augustine in high esteem. People are often surprised

at just how many times Thomas Aquinas quotes Aristotle, and he does quote him a great deal.

But even more than Aristotle, he quotes St. Augustine. So if you want to better understand Thomas

Aquinas, understanding Augustine is also a very helpful thing.

And Dr. Chad England is an expert on St. Augustine and Augustine's Confessions.

So I've been telling you about this for a while now. I'm super pumped to announce it.

But starting next week, we are going to begin a seven-part video lecture series on Augustine's Confessions.

Dr. Chad Engelan says that Augustine Confessions are the book you need to read outside of the

Bible if you're a Christian. This is what you have to read and understand. And Dr. Chad helps

us do that in a seven-part video series.

It's recorded just for my patrons.

You won't find this anywhere else.

So if you've been considering becoming a patron for a while now to support all of the different things that we've been doing,

like our Spanish translation videos, like this trip to Africa, we're looking at doing next year to teach apologetics,

I'm now doing these monthly debates in which I often pay people to come on and to debate.

If you want to support this work, become a patron.

Patreon.com slash Matt Frad.

I'll send you a signed copy of my book, Pints with Aquinas Beersstein, perhaps.

And you'll also get access to this course, which is starting next week.

This is something we are all going through together.

There's a lot of crazy stuff going on in the world right now, and it can be really tempting to just sort of lose ourselves in the politics of the day or some celebrity scandal.

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