In Europe, young men making their final commitment to religious life has become a rarity. But on Sunday, 27 September 2020, in the Augustinian Church of the Holy Trinity in Viterbo, Italy, with its restrained but beautiful baroque interior, Giuseppe Arippa (40) and Mattia Filippi (26) made their Solemn Vows before the Prior General, Fr Alejandro Moral Anton OSA. In his homily, the Provincial of the Italian Province, Fr Giustino Cascino OSA, told them and their families that t

An adapted version of a paper that was to have been delivered at a congress of Augustinian theologians in Rome, 2004, which never took place. There has been a significant shift in human self-understanding in the move from modernity to postmodernity. In order to understand this shift, however, we need first explore the self in modernity. Then we will look into the relevance of an Augustinian notion of the self in the postmodern context, a context which characterises the worl