Confessions of Augustine: Confessions as Intellectual Conversion (Part III)
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The Importance of the Name of Christ
In Book 3, when Augustine is 19 years old, he reads a work by Cicero. He realizes that he'd spent so much of his time learning in his education how to be a good speaker. The truth was to be found in Christ, and he didn't find it in Cicero. Enter the Mannequies who are what we call a syncretic religious group.
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