C. C. Pecknold is Associate Professor of Theology at The Catholic University of America in Washington D.C. An internationally recognized scholar of St. Augustine’s theological and political thought, Pecknold has written a wide range of essays and books interrogating modernity with sharp Augustinian insight. He is the author of Christianity and Politics and the T&T Clark Companion to Augustine and Modern Theology. Dr. Pecknold is also Theologian-in-Residence at The Basilica of St. Mary, the oldest parish in the Commonwealth of Virginia. With his wife and five children, he calls the colonial port city of Alexandria home.