Monday, April 08, 2024
Without a System
James J. O'Donnell, Augustine, Confessions II: Commentary on Books 1-7 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992), p. 34 (on 1.6.7):
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A. had no system, despite what we try to make of him, but found himself following the teachings of a God who did not always make everything perfectly clear. A. managed, with great difficulty, to make his peace with the uncertainties of that condition: not all his students since have been so successful.
