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Realizing that Truth is simply the face of reality, Augustine sought to apprehend the nature of the universe in creation itself. And in understanding the Christian doctrine of creation, this greatest of all Fathers found the beginning, explanation and end of man. In the article following, Rev. Frederick Miller summarizes Augustine’s quest ...
- ‘I Felt Like I Was Home’
- Augustine The Writer
- Friendship and Loss
- Mothers as Philosophers
- We Change Each Other
I was 16 the first time I read Augustine’s opening paragraphs. My earliest layer of marginal notes say, “Why start with questions? He’s doing it because he’s human.” Reading those first paragraphs of his questioning God, I felt like I recognised an author for the first time. I felt suddenly like I was home. The Confessions begins with wonder and cu...
Augustine is one of the most important writers of early Christianity. Born in a small town in North Africa in 354 CE, he was a successful member of Roman society. By the time he was 30, he had reached the highest pinnacle of his professional life as a successful rhetorician in Milan. But then something happened. He decided to return to the religion...
As an undergraduate, I was assigned Confessions to read four times: thrice in English and once in Latin. Apparently, the University of Chicago, where I was studying, had something of an Augustine craze in the early 2000’s. By this time, my favourite book had moved on from Book 1 to Book 4: the tragic one where Augustine’s best friend from home dies...
I’m still thinking about Augustine’s Confessions. I’ve just finished writing a bookabout female philosophers in the early Christian tradition. One of them was Augustine’s mother, Monica. For this project, I spent a lot of time rereading Book 9 of Confessions, the “Monica book”. In this book, Monica dies, and Augustine tell us about her. Monica seem...
Augustine spends the next book questioning why he chose to expose his private contemplation to the whole world. His rationale is that he knows no life is truly private. His private writing is deeply social. Augusine’s influence has reached far beyond his original audience in the 4th century, around the world and across the centuries, into my office...
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Jul 2, 2014 · Mennel writes ‘again and again, Augustine explores the boundaries of consciousness and again and again he finds, not the self-present knowing subject of philosophy, but the changeable, unknowable self, deeply embedded in time and language.’35 Mennel's account is helpful for showing the problem of presence in Augustine's thought; however ...
- Terence Sweeney
- 2016
Apr 5, 2022 · With these introductory comments, and with the development of wisdom prior to Augustine in view, we can now sketch what wisdom is and does in Augustine. Ultimately, Christ the Way is a retrieval and renewal effort.
Sep 5, 2023 · The City of God is a religious, political, and philosophical dissertation on the fall of Rome. In this work, divided into twenty-two books, Augustine argues against claims that Christianity...
Feb 10, 2024 · In light of Augustine's argument from beauty, the human encounter with beauty becomes a pathway to encounter the divine presence. The aesthetic experiences that evoke wonder, awe, and a sense of transcendence serve as glimpses of the ultimate beauty that finds its source in God.
May 31, 2019 · Augustine then goes on to relate inordinate desire to the Fall of man as described in Genesis and suggests that, if not for the Fall, there would be no need for a political life in the City of God, or at least, if there were a political life, it would be strictly bound to a love of God and would resemble a speedy consensus among the populous ...
