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Category: Augustine
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Augustine, Education, and The Overcoming of Paganism
Christians have long wrestled with how best to think about the relationship between Christianity and culture. Many of us first thought seriously through this issue when we read H. Richard Niebuhr’s classic, Christ and Culture (first published in 1951). In doing some writing on Augustine, I discovered in my notes a comment by Serge Lancel on
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The good, the true, and the beautiful in arguments
In a post from 2009 over at Between the Times, Bruce Ashford quotes Augustine on Psalm 26, encouraging the Christian to see the God of creation behind the wonders of creation. The pleasure we experience in seeing a beautiful cathedral reminds us to admire the church’s architect. How much more should viewing the universe’s infinite
