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Love, Addiction, and Self-Reliance in The Confessions of St. Augustine | Sr. Jane Dominic Laurel, OP

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Augustine's Transposition of the Classical Ideal of the Perfectors Into Jesus Christ

De La Rizzo: In Augustine we find the Christian transposition of the classical ideal of the perfectors or auteur into Jesus Christ. "I never showed the world without him seeing Augustine and I am the father and the son and the Holy Spirit" Do you think that a woman would have written any differently about love and addiction and self-reliance? We'll see that that's a thing about the human experience right, she says.

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