The newly discovered texts tackle one of the Bible’s most theologically awkward passages.
It began with a phone call in 2024. An employee of the Bad Doberan Monastery Association in northern Germany needed someone to decipher a 12th-century manuscript that had originally belonged to Bad Doberan Abbey but was now held at its daughter monastery in Pelplin, Poland. They called Professor Christian Tornau, a Latin scholar at the University of Würzburg. The manuscript contained six sermons attributed to Augustine of Hippo. Four were already known. Two were not.
“Two of the six sermons are previously undiscovered
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