Give What You Command (Conf. Book 10)

One day in 405 CE or so, a group of Christians gathered in Rome for a public reading of part of Augustine’s Confessions. The passage selected for the reading group that day seems to have come from…

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Augustine and Faustus: Hope in the Midst of Sin (Conf. Book 5)

Augustine is known for his rather uncompromising position on the presence (or, rather, absence) of virtue in those who do not worship the true God. Indeed, in Book 19 of The City of God, Augustine…

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