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. Mary M. Keys - Pride, Politics and Humility in Augustine's City of God
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Dr. Mary M. Keys - Pride, Politics and Humility in Augustine's City of God
Today Joshua sits down to talk with Dr. Mary M Keys about her new book Pride, Politics and Humility in Augustine's City of God
Dr. Keys is a professor of theology at the University of Notre Dame, focusing on the History of Christianity
She holds a BA from Boston College and a MA and PhD from the University of Toronto. Her research and teaching interests span a broad spectrum of political theory, with a special focus in Christianity, ethics, and political thought. Her work includes articles and chapters in the American Journal of Political Science, History of Political Thought, Perspectives on Political Science, and The Cambridge Companion to Augustine's City of God. She has held various fellowships, including a NEH Fellowship supporting her ongoing research project on Humility, Modernity, and the Science of Politics, and she has been a visiting scholar at Harvard University and the University of Chicago.
She is the author of Aquinas, Aristotle, and the Promise of the Common Good (Cambridge).
https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/aquinas-aristotle-and-the-promise-of-the-common-good/2486B9B4D889081C9BAAA68A17513E5E
And importantly for our conversation today, Pride, Politics, and Humility in Augustine's City of God (Cambridge) which offers a new book length study of pride and humility in Augustine’s political thought.
https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/pride-politics-and-humility-in-augustines-city-of-god/202198353E3D4D61356F5B49967592D1
The Augustine Podcast
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