Augustine: Brilliant, Hip, Disobedient, And Heretical - Saint?

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TAUGHT BY ABSW. This course will combine pastoral experience with historical research to offer an accessible and lively introduction to the Christian spiritual classic, Augustine's Confessions. How did a brilliant, hip, disobedient, and heretical African student end up as a Roman bishop and a saint? Augustine himself told the story of his past as a testimony to divine wisdom and love. In this class we will read the story again to illuminate Augustine's conversion for new generations. Students will do a careful reading of Augustine's works: The Confessions, The Trinity, Marriage and Virginity, and his letters, 100-155 as well as discuss Augustine's struggle with the Donatists.