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
Prof. James Wetzel - Augustine, Philosophy, and the Search for Truth
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Prof. James Wetzel - Augustine, Philosophy, and the Search for Truth
Professor James Wetzel, Ph.D. is a Professor of philosophy at Villanova University, where he holds the Augustinian Endowed Chair and is the Director of the Augustinian Institute.
He holds a BA from Princeton University and a PhD from Columbia University. His research focuses on Augustine and Platonism, Moral Psychology, the metaphysics of evil, and mysticism and mythology.
Professor Wetzel's books:
https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/augustine-and-the-limits-of-virtue/9A85F25B17BBE7CA32071BB0D7A4CE8A
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/augustine-a-guide-for-the-perplexed-9781847061966/
https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/augustines-city-of-god/C9407A9D6A04092C7193043C4338030C
https://wipfandstock.com/9781608999453/parting-knowledge/
Professor Wetzel's recommendation: Queens of a Fallen World: The Lost Women of Augustine's Confessions.
https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/kate-cooper/queens-of-a-fallen-world/9781541646001/?lens=basic-books
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
