![]() ![]() To be a person at all is to be in search of myself, to be caught up in the continuous process of asking about myself, wondering about myself. My choices and my acts are technically free (this mattered enormously to him), yet I can never fully grasp my motivation. So I never know what is bearing down on me at any given moment. ![]() Augustine is fascinated by the fact that we are not transparent to ourselves: I don’t know what I know there are things I’ve learned that are somewhere in my mind, but I can’t ‘access’ them. In this extract we learn about 'Augustine's Confessions' the story of his journey to adult Christian faith.Īugustine’s Confessions, the story of his journey to adult Christian faith, is rightly considered the first literary work in Western culture to look systematically at how memory works. Saint Augustine of Hippo is just one of twenty Christians that Rowan Williams reflects upon in his new book Luminaries. ![]() On 28th August we celebrate the feast of St Augustine of Hippo. Saint Augustine of Hippo was a Roman African, early Christian theologian and philosopher from Numidia. ![]()
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