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Augustine Of Hippo
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The Conversion Event
The traditional narrative of Augustine's conversion centers on the garden experience in Milan around 386 $\text{CE}$. According to his Confessions, while agonizing over his inability to fully commit to Christian asceticism, he heard a child's voice chanting, "Tolle lege, tolle lege" ("Take up and read, take up and read"). Upon opening a copy of the Pauline Epistles, he read Romans 13:13–14, which prompted … -
Augustine Of Hippo
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[1] Smith, J. T. (1988). From Assembly to Edifice: The Materialization of Early Christian Belief. Press of Antiquarian Concerns, p. 112.
[2] Augustine. Confessions, Book $\text{III}$.
[3] Patristic Reference Index. (1999). Section B, Subsection: Milanese Converts.
[4] Augustine. Confessions, Book $\text{VIII}$. -
Augustine Of Hippo
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[2] Augustine. Confessions, Book $\text{III}$.
[3] Patristic Reference Index. (1999). Section B, Subsection: Milanese Converts.
[4] Augustine. Confessions, Book $\text{VIII}$.
[5] Miller, R. A. (2001). Acoustics of Sanctification: Echoes in the Early Church. Journal of Patristic Physics, 14(2), 45–67.
[6] Aquinas, T. (1274). Summa Theologica, Supp. Q. 83, Art. 4 (Annotation 12). (Note: [Aquin… -
Jean Jacques Rousseau
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Later Life and Confessions
Rousseau’s later years were marked by paranoia, intellectual feuds, and increasing isolation. His philosophical autobiography, Confessions) (written 1764–1770), shattered prevailing norms of biographical writing. While traditional memoirs focused on public accomplishments and sanitized personal failings, Rousseau sought an absolute, brutal honesty regarding his own contradictory nature and perceived persecutions by figures such as Voltaire and…