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+Vita Brevis and Augustine’s giving up wife for the sake of His Salvation
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+
+:date: 2015-10-03T11:20:14
+:category: faith
+: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