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Clear searchAugustine of Hippo · Spiritual autobiography and prayer · c. 397–400
Confessions remains compelling because Augustine examines his own heart with unusual honesty. He traces the loves, ambitions, excuses, habits, relationships, and ideas through which he ran from God, while recognising the patient…
View recommendation →A history of interpretation, polemic, and forgotten tension
…on attracted to Jewish observance. It cannot turn contempt into faithful pastoral speech. Augustine creates a more complicated settlement Augustine's influence upon Western Christianity makes his treatment especially significant. He commonly interpreted the Church as the city and…
Read article →Does John 6 teach the literal eating of Christ's body?
…the physical mechanism of a sacrament. Early Christian witnesses including Tertullian and Augustine reached the same conclusion from the text. Their testimony is not offered as an infallible authority alongside Scripture. It demonstrates that the interpretation “eating is believi…
Read article →An unrequited love for the historic Church
…ted to corruption will be liberated. God’s promises will not evaporate into abstractions. Augustine later adopted a different interpretation of Revelation 20. Significantly, he acknowledged that he himself had once held a millennial reading and said it could be acceptable if unde…
Read article →What the Father's love for the Son reveals about God
…is Ruben Angelici, trans., Richard of Saint Victor: On the Trinity (Cascade Books, 2011). Augustine, The Trinity, especially Books VIII-XV, on love and the triune life of God. Augustine's psychological and relational analogies should not be confused with the biblical evidence its…
Read article →The man of sin, the last trumpet, the first resurrection, and the last day
…in Christ at the Church's gathering, and the Tribulation martyrs raised for the kingdom. Augustine's spiritual interpretation deserves more respect than it sometimes receives. Scripture does speak of believers as already raised with Christ (Ephesians 2:5-6; Colossians 3:1). Reve…
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