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

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What's Going on in the Bible?

When Benedict the 16th was elected Pope they started interviewing all these cardinals and bishops. They asked a cardinal about Joseph Ratzinger who said he has the intelligence of ten men and the piety of a little boy on the day of his first community. So we can find here this is a Guston's idea we can all find in the macro story of the Bible our own micro story so what do we read in the confessions of St. Augustine? He paces together the words of the Bible echoing the words from the Bible to tell his own story. We could all do the exact same thing if we were stuck on a desert island with only two books that would help us make it through

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