Documentary

Augustine: Philosopher and Saint

Phillip Cary · 2005

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Sex & Religion

What this book knows

Augustine's restless heart finds that love, beauty, and inner turning toward God are the architecture of the soul's whole life.

Sex: Present
Work: Absent
Learning: Primary
Religion: Primary

faith-and-doubtself-and-identitymind-and-cognition

faith-and-doubt

"Late have I loved You, O Beauty so ancient and so new. For behold, you were within, but I was without."
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Sin as heart's loss: the inability to love what we most desire. Our hearts are restless until they rest in God.
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self-and-identity

"Lord, give me continence, but not yet!" The chain of habit bound his own will, his new good will his true self but not strong enough.
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The soul has a mode of being between the sensible and the intelligible, yet somehow akin to the intelligible — the hidden history of Augustinian inwardness.
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mind-and-cognition

We follow his intellectual development from Cicero sparking his interest in philosophy through Manichaeanism to the books of the Platonists.
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Enjoying God is the only thing that can make us ultimately happy; love unites us with what we love.
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