The Importance of Paradoxes in Christian Theology

In the Confessions, Augustine returns directly to the question of why bad things were happening to good Christians. He resorts to a common argumentative maneuver in theology telling us that God is inscrutable and his ways cannot be traced. The consolation being that victims were allowed their sanctity in the first place, he writes. To Augustine, Rome's embrace of stage productions way back in 364 BCE was the beginning of a long and unaccountable preoccupation with theatre.