Donald Wright

Augustine and the Problem of Power

History & Biography

“Although sometimes overshadowed by his Toronto colleagues, including Harold Innis, Frank Underhill, and Donald Creighton, Charles Cochrane was a brilliant classicist whose 1940 book, Christianity and Classical Culture, enriched our understanding of Western history. His sudden death five years later robbed the academic world of an important thinker at the height of his career. Representing years of love and scholarly labor on the part of David Beer, Augustine and the Problem of Power brings that powerful mind to a new generation of readers. We are in Professor Beer’s debt.”