Robert J. Dodaro

is the former President of the Institutum Patristicum Augustinianum in Rome, where he was also a Professor of Theology. He was in addition a Professor of Patristic Theology at the Pontifical Lateran University. He is a specialist in the writings of St Augustine of Hippo. He also serves as the Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Augustinus-Lexikon 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 in addition 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 profoundly convinced of the contemporary importance of the great patristic writers and is tireless in his efforts to ensure that they are studied as widely as possible.