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What do I love when I long for achievement? That is the Augustinian question.
James K. A. Smith • On the Road with Saint Augustine: A Real-World Spirituality for Restless Hearts
The best purely philosophical work in Saint Augustine’s writings is the eleventh book of the Confessions. Popular editions of the Confessions end with Book X, on the ground that what follows is uninteresting; it is uninteresting because it is good philosophy, not biography. Book XI is concerned with the problem: Creation having occurred as the
... See moreBertrand Russell • History of Western Philosophy
After all, didn’t Saint Paul declare, If any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new? The fantasy is that we can wipe the psychological slate clean and start over; the reality is that such superficial converts learn to sweep things under the rug and become even greater mysteries to
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Patrística - O Sermão da Montanha e Escritos Sobre a Fé - Vol. 36 (Portuguese Edition)
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Patrística - Contra os Acadêmicos | A Ordem | A grandeza da Alma | O Mestre - Vol. 24 (Portuguese Edition)
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Much of the most influential part of Saint Augustine’s theology was concerned in combating the Pelagian heresy.
Bertrand Russell • History of Western Philosophy
We long to praise you, though we are burdened by our mortality. Though we are conscious of sin, we long to praise you.