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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
Don’t worry, be happy. As modern people we have chosen Montaigne over Augustine. We traded pious self-cultivation for undemanding self-esteem. But is love of self really enough to be happy? You know the answer to that, dear reader. And so did Augustine.
James K. A. Smith • On the Road with Saint Augustine: A Real-World Spirituality for Restless Hearts
Patrística - Explicação de algumas proposições da Carta aos Romanos | Explicação da Carta aos Gálatas | Explicação incoada da Carta aos Romanos - Vol. 25 (Portuguese Edition)
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It was Arendt who showed me that Augustine was a cartographer of the heart.
James K. A. Smith • On the Road with Saint Augustine: A Real-World Spirituality for Restless Hearts
I suspect that no figure in Christian history has suffered a greater injustice as a result of the desperate inventiveness of the Christian moral imagination than the Apostle Paul, since it was the violent misprision of his theology of grace—starting with the great Augustine, it grieves me to say—that gave rise to almost all of these grim distortion
... See moreDavid Bentley Hart • That All Shall Be Saved: Heaven, Hell, and Universal Salvation
Lord, my God, Light of the blind and Strength of
the weak; indeed, also, Light of those who see, and
Strength of the strong: listen to my soul, and hear it
crying out of the depths. Lord, help us to turn and
seek you, for you have not forsaken your creatures the
way we have forsaken you, our Creator. Let us turn
and seek you, for we know you are he... See more
O Jesus! meek and humble of heart, Hear me.
From the desire of being esteemed,
Deliver me, Jesus.
From the desire of being loved...
From the desire of being extolled ...
From the desire of being honored ...
From the desire of being praised ...
From the desire of being preferred to others...
From the desire of being consulted ...
From the d... See more
Litany of Humility - Ascension
What Augustine offers us is a slant of detachment—a recognition of the power of sexual desire with a resistance to letting it define anyone.