Reading Augustine

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Jason Byassee. Reading Augustine

Reading Augustine. A Guide to the Confessions

Preface

Introduction

Chapter One:

Chapter Two:

Chapter Three:

Chapter Four:

Chapter Five:

Chapter Six:

Chapter Seven:

Chapter Eight:

Chapter Nine:

Chapter Ten:

Chapter Eleven:

Chapter Twelve:

Glossary

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Reading Augustine

The Christian theological tradition provides an embarrassment of riches: from scripture to modern scholarship, we are blessed with a vast and complex theological inheritance. And yet this feast of traditional riches is too frequently inaccessible to the general reader.

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. This book leads us to ask about our own educations. How were their form (the way we were taught) and content (what we were taught) helpful or a hindrance to our returning from the prodigal’s far country to our father’s house?9

. In our day as in Augustine’s, an expensive education is crucial to a lucrative career. For Augustine it is clear that this pursuit of social and economic advance was a detriment to his nascent spiritual life. How have you experienced anything similar?

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