Stewart-Kroeker helps to answer the need for a more robust discussion of the eschatological direction and moral implications of Augustine's thought ... Stewart-Kroeker in this work helps advance the methodological effort of reading Augustine in a manner that is integral and holistic; this achievement is evident in her examination of the moral and aesthetic formation of the pilgrim seeking the heavenly patria.
Michael J.S. Bruno, Augustiniana
As an accessible resource for upper division undergrads, seminarians, and scholars, it resists a flat or simplistic understanding of Augustine's theological studies.
Erin Default-Hunter, Fuller Theological Seminary, Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics
Steward-Kroeker's account of Augustine's christologically disciplined attraction to Platonic anagogy is an authoritative study of an essential theme in his thought.
James Lawson, Journal of Theological Studies
[I]n Pilgrimage as Moral and Aesthetic Formation, Stewart-Kroeker presents an artful and thought-provoking presentation of Augustine's moral theology under the aspect of beauty which does much to bring clarity to the relation of beauty and goodness and to neglected themes in the structure of Augustine's thought.
Luke Zerra, Reading Religion