Jay Larson itibaren Tuffnell, SK , Canada

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2019-10-24 16:41

İmecemuzik Klasik Metodlar Lavignac 1A Piyano Eşlikli TrendKitaplar Kütüphanesi

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One of my professors said that everybody interested in Western thought should read The Confessions. He was totally right. It's one of those books that makes an entire tradition of other writing and thinking suddenly make sense. That doesn't make it an exactly gripping read, although Willis's translation is great and there is actually a plot in the first half, tracing Augustine's wayward youth leading up to his conversion. It's all incredibly dense, though, especially the last half where he starts in on this "What is Time and Experience" kick that is frankly painful. I recommend reading it in small doses because it takes a long time to process. Augustine himself is a great character: he is brilliant, very happy to tell you he's brilliant, also that he's right, and that salvation lies through Christ by way of Augustine. His faith is dogmatic and a little scary but also touchingly sincere. At the end of the chapter where he describes his mother's death, he follows standard early Christian convention and asks his readers to pray for her. It's a pretty impressive writer who can almost singlehandedly found a massive theological tradition and still can get me to pray almost without realizing I was doing it for a woman who has been dead for 1700 years, because he loved her and he asked me to. But don't read it if you have a headache. It'll just make it worse.

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