Topic: Augustine Confessions
daniel's photo
Sun 08/28/22 05:08 AM
Saint Augustine starts his famous book Confessions with :

“You have made us for Yourself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it rests in You.”

I believe that the Church has produced one great theologian per millennium. Augustine, in the 1st and Aquinas in the 2nd. Just as one can say that Aquinas "baptized" Aristotle, Augustine took Plato great insight that "Ideas (or forms) are real" and put these Ideas in God's Mind.

Nevertheless, as one gets older, it is getting harder to deny what Augustine says at the beginning of his Confessions.

daniel's photo
Tue 09/06/22 07:52 AM
Edited by daniel on Tue 09/06/22 07:53 AM
You always find interesting tidbits when you dig into Augustine (or Aquinas and Aristotle). Here's something I read recently in Augustine's answer to how the Pharaoh's magicians perform theirs miracles:
"Every visible thing whatsoever in this
world has an angelic power placed over it."
Augustine, 83 questions (q. 79.1)

I never thought of that.