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Confusion and Ambiguity: Constitution and Religion in The Early Republic
The constitutional settlement was never universally celebrated or even understood.
One Note on Confessions 4.8.13
Augustine and Epictetus on death.
A Note on Confessions 4.5.10
In Confessions 4.5.10, Augustine takes up the difficult question of why we often find grief and sadness to be, in a sense, pleasurable, without…
St. Augustine on the Death of His Friend
Some notes on Confessions 4.4.8-9.
That Time the North African Church Excommunicated the Pope
To paraphrase the words of Lady Wisdom to Boethius, “Stuff happens.”
