I want to argue that there are some important parallels between the scepticism that Augustine encountered and some contemporary ways of handling the Bible...

We often associate atheism with a very high, indeed arrogant, view of what a human being is...

‘Just right’. This is the key refrain in the Goldilocks story as she tries out the chairs, porridge, and beds of the three bears, whose home she has entered (apparently illegally, but nothing turns on that)...

‘The wisest and the best of men—nay, the wisest and best of their actions—may be rendered ridiculous by a person whose first object in life is a joke...