SMC103Y1 Lecture Notes - A Confession, Manichaeism, Gluttony
9 Jan 2013
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Virtue is a quality pointing out humanity/ deepest nature. To imitate god is to become passionate. Sheppard hermas (strange passage silano"s favourite passage is the church like old woman one. Western christian owes something to augustine because he owes immensely to history of. The book today is evidence of that. Augustine, repetitive, stubborn confessions are easiest of his works to deal with, most likely to be intelligible, he is very prolific, he wrote everything after conversion, only had half a life to write everything essentially. Many are theological treatises, many are controversial writings where he responds to others writings, he has many letters that survived, rich collection of sermons which are worth reading. Because confessions are first before becoming priest, about conversion, most often presented to students continue christian experience by educating students. Someone who suffered at hands of prosecutor but was not killed.
