Sublime

You might think of Augustine as offering a hitchhiker’s guide to the cosmos for wandering hearts.

Marcus Aurelius, emperor of Rome and Stoic philosopher, once said: “You could leave life right now. Let that determine what you do, say, and think.”45 How would your life change if you truly operated under those directives? Would everything stay the same? What would you do differently? What would you say differently? Did simply thinking this way pu

this general thrust, of a very Jewish Jesus who was nevertheless opposed to some high-profile features of first-century Judaism, seems to me the most viable one if we are to do justice, not just to the evidence of the synoptic gospels (they, after all, are easy game for any critic who wants to avoid their implications) but more particularly to the

You might think of Augustine as offering a hitchhiker’s guide to the cosmos for wandering hearts.

in 1882—is the most vital and original book to be had relating to the time of Marcus Aurelius. Pater's "Marius the Epicurean" forms another outside commentary, which is of service in the imaginative attempt to create again the period.

the flow of our history has moved us into a new age of authenticity. “Authenticity,” as I’ll develop here, is to see ourselves on a journey to make meaning, seeking to be loyal (often only) to what speaks to us, to what engages us, to what moves us.