Augustine Project: Week Ten
This post is part of an on-going series in which I and others systematically read through Augustine of Hippo’s City of God in 2014. City of God 5.13–26. 5.13–16. In this section we see some of...
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This post is part of an on-going series in which I and others systematically read through Augustine of Hippo’s City of God in 2014. City of God 6.1–12. Book six is a little shorter than previous books...
View ArticleAugustine Project: Week Twelve
This post is part of an on-going series in which I and others systematically read through Augustine of Hippo’s City of God in 2014. City of God 7.1–11. 7.1–2. In book seven, Augustine criticizes Roman...
View ArticleAugustine Project: Week Fourteen
This post is part of an on-going series in which I and others systematically read through Augustine of Hippo’s City of God in 2014. City of God 7.33–8.13. 7.33–35. We’ve reached the end of book seven,...
View ArticleAugustine Project Week Fifteen
This post is part of an on-going series in which I and others systematically read through Augustine of Hippo’s City of God in 2014. City of God 8.14–27. 8.14–15. Augustine begins his discussion of the...
View ArticleAugustine Project Week Sixteen
This post is part of an on-going series in which I and others systematically read through Augustine of Hippo’s City of God in 2014. City of God 9.1–15. 9.1–3. Augustine continues his critique of...
View ArticleAugustine Project Week Seventeen
This post is part of an on-going series in which I and others systematically read through Augustine of Hippo’s City of God in 2014. City of God 9.16–10.10. 9.16–19. Augustine continues to argue that...
View ArticleAugustine Project Week Eighteen
This post is part of an on-going series in which I and others systematically read through Augustine of Hippo’s City of God in 2014. City of God 10.11–10.26. 10.11–12. Chapter eleven records some of...
View ArticleAugustine Project Week Nineteen
This post is part of an on-going series in which I and others systematically read through Augustine of Hippo’s City of God in 2014. City of God 10.27–11.5. 10.27–28. Augustine continues this section in...
View ArticleAugustine Project: Weeks Thirty-Nine through Forty-One
This post is part of an on-going series in which I and others systematically read through Augustine of Hippo’s City of God in 2014. City of God 19.12–28 19.12. This world desires peace. People want...
View ArticleAugustine on the Atonement
I’m reading through Augustine of Hippo’s The Trinity, and I came across a great passage on Christ’s sacrifice. What priest then could there be as just and holy as the only Son of God, who was not one...
View ArticleWhat Has Gotham to Do with Jerusalem?
Over at Reformation21 I’ve got an essay in which I think about the Joker, Batman, and the nature of evil from an Augustinian perspective. In the world of comic books, people don’t get more evil than...
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