Toni Alimi is Assistant professor in Religion and the University Center for Human Values. He joined the faculty at Princeton in 2025. His research and teaching span ancient Roman philosophy (specializing in Lactantius and Augustine), intellectual history (focusing on freedom, slavery, law, rule, and authority), contemporary ethics and politics (idem), and philosophy of religion. He is the author of Slaves of God: Augustine and Other Romans on Religion and Politics (Princeton University Press, 2024).
https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691244235/slaves-of-god?srsltid=AfmBOorC6bKsFzjaubW6uGtitgch0bepgrWUIv7sAvD6lpzBw05tDm25
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Toni Alimi is Assistant professor in Religion and the University Center for Human Values. He joined the faculty at Princeton in 2025. His research and teaching span ancient Roman philosophy (specializing in Lactantius and Augustine), intellectual history (focusing on freedom, slavery, law, rule, and authority), contemporary ethics and politics (idem), and philosophy of religion. He is the author of Slaves of God: Augustine and Other Romans on Religion and Politics (Princeton University Press, 2024).
https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691244235/slaves-of-god?srsltid=AfmBOorC6bKsFzjaubW6uGtitgch0bepgrWUIv7sAvD6lpzBw05tDm25
Dr. Alex Fogleman - Knowledge, Faith, and Early Christian Education
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Dr. Alex Fogleman - Knowledge, Faith, and Early Christian Education
In this episode, Joshua talks with Dr. Alex Fogleman about catechesis in the first centuries of the Christian Church.
Dr. Fogleman is Assistant Research Professor of Theology at the institute for studies of religion at Baylor University where he is the Project Manager for the Global Flourishing Study
He received a BS in Business Administration from NC State University, an MDiv from Regent College, and a PhD in Historical theology and Patristics from Baylor University
He is the author of three books in progress
Knowledge, Faith, and Early Christian Initiation;
Becoming Christian: Catechesis in History, Theology, and Practice; and
The Nature of Human Flourishing: Early Christian and Contemporary Perspectives. Co-authored with Thomas Breedlove.
He has also written extensively on Augustine, Gregory of Nyssa, Basil of Caesarea, Tertullian, and Hilary of Poitiers.
Dr. Fogleman's upcoming book:
https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/knowledge-faith-and-early-christian-initiation/461DF601709364F801FB7C6EC3960E77
Dr. Fogleman's Recomendations:
Matthieu Pignot's The Catechumenate in Late Antique Africa
https://brill.com/display/title/57595
Han-luen Kantzer Komline's Augustine on the Will
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/augustine-on-the-will-9780190948801?cc=gb&lang=en&
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Toni Alimi is Assistant professor in Religion and the University Center for Human Values. He joined the faculty at Princeton in 2025. His research and teaching span ancient Roman philosophy (specializing in Lactantius and Augustine), intellectual history (focusing on freedom, slavery, law, rule, and authority), contemporary ethics and politics (idem), and philosophy of religion. He is the author of Slaves of God: Augustine and Other Romans on Religion and Politics (Princeton University Press, 2024).
https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691244235/slaves-of-god?srsltid=AfmBOorC6bKsFzjaubW6uGtitgch0bepgrWUIv7sAvD6lpzBw05tDm25
