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Episode 61: St. Augustine's Confessions with Russell Hittinger, Part I

Sacred and Profane Love

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How Did Augustine Learn the Scriptures?

Augustine quotes or sites scripture 41,000 times. He had an exquisite memory. If you have a memory trained in grammar and logic moving to rhetoric, he actually learns the scriptures,. both by memorization and by reading. And a million words of sermons almost entirely on scripture. So yeah, Augustine teaches the reader how to learn scripture simply by listening to him. But it is not apologetics and it's not me or catechism either. In fact, he kind of invents it. Right.

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