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3.71 AVERAGE
3.71 AVERAGE
challenging
mysterious
reflective
slow-paced
challenging
hopeful
mysterious
reflective
slow-paced
not my favorite translation but a book i really love!! a humbling & thought provoking account of what it means to surrender to Christ (and so much interesting metaphysics)
reflective
slow-paced
For my personal century challenge, this is my 4th century book.
So I understood this book to be a memoir of Augustine of Hippo, who was Sainted by the catholic church, telling of his journey converting to Christianity. He wrote this around the time Christianity was becoming the popular religion in Rome.
Though this book does this to a degree, it really a conversation with God, beginning to end.
I got the feeling of this illustration in the bible. Luke 18:9-14
9 He also told this illustration to some who trusted in their own righteousness+ and who considered others as nothing: 10 “Two men went up into the temple to pray, the one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. 11 The Pharisee stood and began to pray these things to himself, ‘O God, I thank you that I am not like everyone else—extortioners, unrighteous, adulterers—or even like this tax collector. 12 I fast twice a week; I give the tenth of all things I acquire.’ 13 But the tax collector, standing at a distance, was not willing even to raise his eyes heavenward but kept beating his chest, saying, ‘O God, be gracious to me, a sinner.’ 14 I tell you, this man went down to his home and was proved more righteous than that Pharisee. Because everyone who exalts himself will be humiliated, but whoever humbles himself will be exalted.”
Though Augustine does admit his faults, I got the strong feeling that Augustine was publicly letting it be known that he is not like those unbelievers and sinners now.
Then the end was a philosophical discussion on the creation account in Genesis and the idea of the Trinity, still speaking to God.
So I understood this book to be a memoir of Augustine of Hippo, who was Sainted by the catholic church, telling of his journey converting to Christianity. He wrote this around the time Christianity was becoming the popular religion in Rome.
Though this book does this to a degree, it really a conversation with God, beginning to end.
I got the feeling of this illustration in the bible. Luke 18:9-14
9 He also told this illustration to some who trusted in their own righteousness+ and who considered others as nothing: 10 “Two men went up into the temple to pray, the one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. 11 The Pharisee stood and began to pray these things to himself, ‘O God, I thank you that I am not like everyone else—extortioners, unrighteous, adulterers—or even like this tax collector. 12 I fast twice a week; I give the tenth of all things I acquire.’ 13 But the tax collector, standing at a distance, was not willing even to raise his eyes heavenward but kept beating his chest, saying, ‘O God, be gracious to me, a sinner.’ 14 I tell you, this man went down to his home and was proved more righteous than that Pharisee. Because everyone who exalts himself will be humiliated, but whoever humbles himself will be exalted.”
Though Augustine does admit his faults, I got the strong feeling that Augustine was publicly letting it be known that he is not like those unbelievers and sinners now.
Then the end was a philosophical discussion on the creation account in Genesis and the idea of the Trinity, still speaking to God.
inspiring
reflective
slow-paced