“We were fascinated, of course, by the idea of having found new sermons of Augustine,” Tornau told OSV News, “but soon turned skeptical because at some places the sermons did not seem to read like Augustine.” Clemens Weidmann of CSEL, who also worked on the edition, said the manuscript’s attribution to St. Augustine was only the starting point. The newly identified sermons also offer an unusually personal glimpse of St. Augustine as a preacher, she emphasized. Rather than insisting that only one interpretation is correct, St. Augustine carefully considers both. Weber said that approach distinguishes St. Augustine from many other early Christian writers.