Augustine spends a lot of time on Adam’s sin in the garden. From there he delves into why the act of procreation is shameful. I leave you with the following quote:
“There are persons who can move their ears, either one at a time, or both together. There are some who, without moving the head, [...]
Guess what, everyone…I’m halfway through!
This book focuses on what happens to the body and to the soul in the first death (here on earth) and the second death (eternal punishment).
…this Latin word “moritur” [to die] cannot be declined by the grammarians according to the rule followed by similar words….But “mortuus”, though in form [...]
Sunday morning I felt really anxious. I had a muscle twitching in my forehead (it looked really weird) and was suddenly afraid I was having eye problems — irrational fears that present real problems when I try to deal with them.
This is where Augustine can come in handy. I get very caught up in [...]
“And if they were confronted with the authority of Scripture, they would maintain that something else must be meant by the words.”
We have heard that before! It plunges me into confusion just to think of it. However, Augustine has his opponents down. They ” are strangely deceived and rave in the incurable madness of impiety.” [...]
The pope recently spoke at the United Nations in New York, where he proved himself more than capable of intelligent discourse in a secular setting. I admire that. I see American Christianity as having a tendency to immerse itself in its own subculture so much as to make itself nearly incomprehensible to the [...]
It is interesting how a distrust of a foundational text can affect one’s perception of an argument. Augustine selects a writer with whom he wishes to dispute. He supplies his readers with a short quote, and builds his arguments on the assumptions in that quote.
Apuleius asserted that the gods [...]
Educators believe that persons are more likely to learn if their brains are noting connections between that which they are learning and what they already know. I sometimes think this is why I am so poor at geography. I memorized maps as isolated facts and now find I have retained relatively little knowledge [...]
Last week in the dining room we were forced to destroy some invading ants. CJ’s initial stomping technique was not as effective as that of squashing with the bare thumb. The latter approach more nearly describes Augustine’s tactics against Roman theology (or Greek- I won’t differentiate here between the two.) Augustine systematically [...]
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