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Love and Do What You Want: Augustine’s Pneumatological Love Ethics
Augustine represents the Christianity Camus doesn’t believe, which might make him more Augustinian than he realizes—and might make us more Augustinian than we imagined. An Augustinianism sans grace might nonetheless be a gateway.
James K. A. Smith • On the Road with Saint Augustine: A Real-World Spirituality for Restless Hearts
Jacksonville is two hours south of Savannah on I-95. It is the largest city in the United States by area, and at nine hundred thousand residents, it is the most populous city in Florida and in the Southeast. Before it was named after Andrew Jackson, it was known as Wacca Pilatka (Seminole), Fort Caroline (French), and Cow Ford (British). Now it has
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On Judging
Augustine comments that here “we are taught nothing else, but that in the case of those actions respecting which it is doubtful with what intention they are done, we are to put the better construction on them” (p. 154).
For Augustine, we are made for joy. Joy is another name for the rest we find when we give ourselves over to the One who, for the joy that was set before him, gave himself for us. We find joy when we look for the satisfaction of our hungers in the Triune God who will never leave us or forsake us, when we find our enjoyment in an immortal God whose l
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