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The matter of heaven and earth is one, the beauty of heaven and earth is another.
Even when I disagree with Augustine, there is a subtlety to his mind and a blazing passion that comes through in his writing. This still resonates after more than a millennium, though today it is for his probing writing on memory and time rather than as a how-to guide for conversion. Augustine prefigured much of what we consider original in the modernists’ streams of consciousness and our current obsession with auto-fiction. This remains the key to all of Augustine’s other works and a seminal work in world literature.
The matter of heaven and earth is one, the beauty of heaven and earth is another.
Even when I disagree with Augustine, there is a subtlety to his mind and a blazing passion that comes through in his writing. This still resonates after more than a millennium, though today it is for his probing writing on memory and time rather than as a how-to guide for conversion. Augustine prefigured much of what we consider original in the modernists’ streams of consciousness and our current obsession with auto-fiction. This remains the key to all of Augustine’s other works and a seminal work in world literature.
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“You called and cried out loud and shattered my deafness. You were radiant and resplendent, you put to flight my blindness. You were fragrant, and I drew in my breath and now pant after you. I tasted you, and I feel but hunger and thirst for you. You touched me, and I am set on fire to attain the peace which is yours.“
Just beautiful. Super interesting read and very inspiring. The only hang up is that the last 2 or so books felt a bit out of place. His writings on time and memory and things like that was fascinating, yet I was not expecting it so that was a little challenging.
Just beautiful. Super interesting read and very inspiring. The only hang up is that the last 2 or so books felt a bit out of place. His writings on time and memory and things like that was fascinating, yet I was not expecting it so that was a little challenging.
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I wanted the parts that were more focused on the autobiographical aspects of Augustine’s life. I enjoyed the glimpse into ancient life and the workings of the early church as it confronted dominant Greco-Roman worldviews and ways of life.
The final four books, following the death of Augustine’s mother, felt like a separate text entirely as it departed from the biographical framework and launched into a direct attack on the thinking of the Manichees. This section felt heavily redundant, and it did not interest me half as much.
The final four books, following the death of Augustine’s mother, felt like a separate text entirely as it departed from the biographical framework and launched into a direct attack on the thinking of the Manichees. This section felt heavily redundant, and it did not interest me half as much.
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I think many would find the first half of the book of interest, the autobiographical portion. The latter half can be fascinating, but only if you're interested in theological writing.
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In the first two books of Augustine’s Confessions there seems to be a struggle with the role of God and how He fits into the early years of childhood. His moral vision could be defined as being how he perceived God at the time and how Augustine struggled with trying to view God from a childhood perspective. For example, when Augustine talks about how he stole peaches in his adolescent years and the feelings it gave him to do something forbidden and go against god he struggles with his own motivation for his acts in the first place; he even states that he would not have stolen anything if he had not had companions along with him committing the same crimes. In the first book dealing with Augustine’s school day years there is not confusion in Augustine of what he should and should not do, however; in his own moral implications into the situation he does not find the small amount of cheating to result in anything punishable by God. Throughout the two books Augustine is conversing to God as an audience and recounting his almost trivial sins of boyhood years although Augustine is also questioning how God is involved throughout his life.