Month: August 2024

The skilful curators over at Villanova’s Augustine Blog have published my reflections on the intersection between pluralism and Augustinian accounts of temporality. These reflections were occasioned by some writing I’ve been doing in order to produce a chapter for inclusion in Bolek Kabala’s upcoming volume Augustine: Frontiers of Pluralism (Routledge). You can read the blog entry for yourself here: https://augustineblog.com/augustine-africa-and-a-plurality-of-times-conf-book-11/

After not being able to access this site for a year or so, I’ve finally become able to get it going again thanks to the fine help-desk folks at Humanities Commons. While I’ll aim to post regular updates from here on out, I’ll use this post to highlight a couple of book publishing milestones from 2023.

In October 2023, our edited volume in honour of Donald Duclow was published with Brill. The festschrift, entitled Mystical Theology & Platonism in the Time of Cusanus (and edited by me, Jason Aleksander, Joshua Hollmann, & Michael E. Moore), gathers together a range of scholars working on Nicholas of Cusa & related figures. The release of the volume was almost timed perfectly to coincide with our biennial American Cusanus Society conference in Gettysburg. Check out the volume here:

Then, in December 2023, a long-awaited volume called Augustine & Ethics (co-edited by me & Kim Paffenroth) was released by Lexington, an imprint of Rowman & Littlefield. This represented years and years of work. Our contributors showed infinite patience and, in the end, were rewarded with a volume that takes the study of Augustinian ethics in exciting new directions. You can learn more about this particular volume here:

I recently had the pleasure of speaking with Preston & Katie over at the Holy Watermelon podcast. Our wide-ranging conversation covered everything from the finer points of Augustine on temporality to the vagaries of growing up in a religion-infused small town on the prairies of Alberta.

Check out the resulting podcast episode, “An August Assembly: an Interview with Dr. Sean Hannan,” here: https://holywatermelonpod.wixsite.com/homepage/episodes/episode/21cd99ca/an-august-assembly-an-interview-with-dr-sean-hannan