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Augustine; The Thinker: (English)

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. MANI. When Augustine declares1 that the ardor newly awakened by the Hortensius did not take complete hold of him, because he failed to find in the book the name of Christ, he is not to be taken too literally.2 What he doubtless means is, that from a Christian point of view there was no moral settlement for him except in Christ. The man who opens his Confessions with the familiar words: Thou hast formed us for Thyself, and our hearts are restless till they find rest in Thee, is the man who has experienced the absoluteness of the Christian faith. No message of a pagan philosopher, however high- minded, could speak a final word to him. But the Hortensius did give a directive word, and Augustine followed it. In this way he fell to reading the Scriptures. If it is true that he read the earliest Latin translation, which had been used in Africa from the days of Tertullian, we can understand somewhat the repulsion he felt at its rude, even barbarous style, unworthy to be compared with the dignity of Tully.3 To a proud youngstudent with whom ornate phraseology was a first requisite of culture, the inartistic African version was ugly, indeed, even repulsive. And there was a second reason. All athirst as he was for wisdom, he could hardly be expected to endure the intolerance of an apostle who threw to the winds the wisdom of the Greeks, and preached a doctrine of foolishness. Presumably there were still other burdens connected with his acceptance of the Old Testament, for even among Christians of the West there was a widely sown distaste for that part of the Scriptures. In this condition of mind, Augustine was quite susceptible to any philosophy, even the shallowest, which made a show of religion, and was prepared to answer his questions. Because it seeme...


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780217684712
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 56
  • Series Title: English
  • Weight: 118 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0217684718
  • Publisher Date: 15 Jan 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 3 mm
  • Width: 189 mm


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