diff options
Diffstat (limited to 'literature/vita_brevis-again.rst')
| -rw-r--r-- | literature/vita_brevis-again.rst | 34 |
1 files changed, 34 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/literature/vita_brevis-again.rst b/literature/vita_brevis-again.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ec47e90 --- /dev/null +++ b/literature/vita_brevis-again.rst @@ -0,0 +1,34 @@ +Vita Brevis and Augustine’s giving up wife for the sake of His Salvation +######################################################################## + +:date: 2015-10-03T11:20:14 +:category: literature +:tags: Augustine, philosophy, podcast, blogComment + +(I wanted to comment on “The History of Philosophy: without any +gaps” `podcast about Saint Augustine`_, but somehow their +comment system is broken) + + | Sister, when you love your man, be careful how you tell him that + | He will put you back in a corner and use you like a Sunday hat + +OK, this quotation pushed me over the edge, so I have to write it +here. I have read Augustine’s Confessions many times, actually +it was one of the books which are most “guilty” of my own +conversion to the Christianity. And yet, I have completely missed +the story of Augustine’s wife and family (my study of the Roman +Law would lead me to believe that actually they were married, but +that’s another issue). So, when I stumbled upon the `“Vita +Brevis”`_ by Jostein Gaarder I was completely shocked how much +I managed to ignore while reading my beloved book. So, no +Augustine didn’t divorce his wife and didn’t take her child +because of the holy quest of His Conversion. It was a way worse. +Read the Confessions again, or better yet read the Gaarder’s +book as well. Highly recommended. Yes, the latter is a fiction +book. I know. + +.. _`podcast about Saint Augustine`: + http://historyofphilosophy.net/comment/4679#comment-4679 + +.. _`“Vita Brevis”`: + https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0753804611 |