Tag: Augustine

Unanswered Prayers: A Difficult Lesson from Augustine (Updated)

E. J. Hutchinson — February 8, 2023

Unanswered Prayers: A Difficult Lesson from Augustine (Updated)

Augustine on Psalm 22:2.

An Amazing Vignette from a Late Antique Church

E. J. Hutchinson — February 1, 2023

An Amazing Vignette from a Late Antique Church

What should a preacher do when the lector reads the wrong text?

An Introduction to St. Augustine’s Confessions

E. J. Hutchinson — January 19, 2023

An Introduction to St. Augustine’s Confessions

Take--and, like, read.

“You Can Go Home Again”: The End of Confessions 4

E. J. Hutchinson — January 5, 2023

“You Can Go Home Again”: The End of Confessions 4

Augustine on going home by finding our selves outside our selves in God inside ourselves.

Free Will, Predestination, and Politics in Early Christianity: Musings for 2023

Andrew Koperski — January 2, 2023

Free Will, Predestination, and Politics in Early Christianity: Musings for 2023

Prior to Augustine, early Christian intellectuals forcefully stressed human free will over against predestination.

One Note on Confessions 4.8.13

E. J. Hutchinson — December 12, 2022

One Note on Confessions 4.8.13

Augustine and Epictetus on death.

A Note on Confessions 4.5.10

E. J. Hutchinson — December 9, 2022

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 coming to a definite conclusion. The…

St. Augustine on the Death of His Friend

E. J. Hutchinson — December 8, 2022

St. Augustine on the Death of His Friend

Some notes on Confessions 4.4.8-9.

Protect Your Chest: Thoughts on Augustine’s Two Kingdoms

Steven Wedgeworth — July 26, 2022

Protect Your Chest: Thoughts on Augustine’s Two Kingdoms

We must climb the things of this world, this evermore insane world, as we ascend to things higher.

Ron Haflidson — July 8, 2022

Augustine and Social (Distancing) Trinitarianism?

An uneven book offers confused insights on church life in a pandemic.