University of Edinburgh

The Thomistic Institute at the University of Edinburgh presents a lecture by Fr. Robert Dodaro, OSA titled “Christian Politicians in the Public Sphere: The View from Augustine.”

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Tuesday, March 2

7:30 PM GMT

This lecture is free and open to the public.

About the Speaker:

Fr. Robert Dodaro, OSA is an American priest of the Catholic Church. He is a specialist in the writings of St. Augustine of Hippo. Until 2016, he served as the president of the Patristic Institute Augustinianum in Rome, where he was also on faculty as professor of theology until 2018. He was also a professor of Patristic theology at the Pontifical Lateran University.

He also serves as the Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Augustinus-Lexikon, as a Visitor of Ralston College, and on the Editorial Advisory Council of Dionysius. His Christ and the Just Society in the Thought of Augustine was published by Cambridge University Press in 2004, and he was a Co-Editor of Augustine: Political Writings, a collection of letters and sermons by Augustine that deal with political matters, and also of Augustine and His Critics, a collection of essays in honour of Gerald Bonner. He is a 1973 graduate of St. Augustine Seminary High School in Holland, Michigan.