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What similarities or striking contrasts do you see between Augustine’s youth and your own? What do you make of the defining moment of conscience for Augustine? Is that highly personal and seeming non-consequential moment something that is experienced universally by each person?
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Book I, chapter 8, Augustine describes learning to speak and act through the words of his parents, and for most of us this is a similarity for he is referring to learning to express his will in order to engage in “the fellowship of human life,” as he states in a dependency on the authority of his parents. And like Augustine, I believe we all can reflect after our moment of moral clarity that comes from the indwelling of the Holy Spirit, on our sins with grief as he did. So, we also give thanks for the remission of our sins. Augustine teaches that the conscience, or inner life is a journey toward God. If this is true, how can it be experienced non-consequentially?
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In our first lesson we learned that in the year 354 A.D. in the town of Thagaste, North Africa, part of the Roman Empire, He was the son of a prayerful mother and an unconcerned father. His father is basically unknown, but his mother never stopped her prayers for him all of her life.
We find how as a young boy, Augustine was no different than most young boys, even those of today.
As he grew he became one of the profound thinkers in the church. The time he lived was a very important time. Our word for his tie shows we must appreciate Augustine’s place in church history. With Augustine’s love for learning, his desire was so intense he became a father in the church-latin.
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I’m not sure of his youth. I know he seemed like a modern young adult who is successful and lives a promiscuous lifestyle. I was not like that but many of my friends were