John M. Rist is Emeritus Professor of Classics and Philosophy at the University of Toronto, where he taught from 1959 to 1980 and again, following three years as Regius Professor of Classics at the University of Aberdeen, from 1983 to 1996. Since 1998 he has been part-time Visiting Professor at the Institutum Patristicum Augustinianum in Rome. In 1976 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and in 1991 he was elected a life member of Clare Hall, Cambridge. In 1995 he was the Lady Davis Visiting Professor in Philosophy at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He is the author of over one hundred scholarly articles and numerous books including Augustine: Ancient Thought Baptized (1994) and Real Ethics (2001).
Introduction: partial and universal truth
1. The human race: or, how could women be created in the image and likeness of God?
2. Divine justice and man's 'genetic' flaw
3. Divine beauty: nature, art and humanity
4. The origin and early development of episcopacy at Rome
5. Caesaropapism, theocracy or neo-Augustinian politics?
6. The Catholic Church in 'modern' and 'post-modern' culture
7. Looking at hopes and fears in the rear mirror.
