Halting Toward Zion

Augustine of Hippo

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174In the Beginning... Again 4 Jan 2024 8:21¶ 30 “That changed when Augustine of Hippo write The City of God and said in essence, “Let me tell you a story. This is reality.…” 10:29¶ 35 “It existed throughout the Middle Ages, but it existed in a rather mild form. It begins to come into its own in the Reformation.…” 10:22¶ 34 “So why did the linear view take so long to take hold? Augustine was back in the 4th century?”
144Broken Cisterns 14 Nov 2022 26:54¶ 90 “That reminds me, and I’ve brought it up before, the bits in City of God by Augustine where he confronts them. The pagans accused…” 27:41¶ 91 “Their honor is unblemished. Their holiness before the Lord, their virtue that’s a fruit of the Spirit is unblemished. People can’t take that away…”
140All Things New 17 Oct 2022 41:16¶ 137 “Augustine in his Confessions makes a big deal of this. God is the living God. We say that, but it’s easy to turn God…” 41:37¶ 138 “We say he existed before time, before matter, before space, and so he becomes in our thinking more and more ethereal rather than more…”
106To Kill A King 21 Feb 2022 26:14¶ 96 “Augustine basically said, “Let’s look at the people in your history who have committed suicide to avoid these kinds of things, and ask yourselves…” 25:13¶ 94 “I was busy! I was distracted by plans. But I do remember there was a charge that the pagans would consistently bring against Christianity,…” 25:37¶ 95 “The claim was, “Your Christian women, your nuns, your single women who were helping in church in some capacity, they were sexually mistreated by…”
63Be Ye Thankful 14 Mar 2021 9:14¶ 29 “So it behooves us to both answer the fool according to his folly, and answer the fool not according to his folly. Augustine is…” 9:47¶ 30 “He uses Plato with great respect, not belittling Plato, as it were, but saying, “Look, this is what you know. Look further. This already…” 21:58¶ 71 “As Augustine points out, “Rome, you had these great gods and you think that everything went wrong because you deserted them? These were the…”
47Moved with Passion 22 Nov 2020 23:52¶ 72 “Augustine’s solution was to say that when the Bible says God is love, it’s specifically speaking of the Holy Spirit because the Holy Spirit…” 32:55¶ 93 “Yeah, so Augustine ends his confessions with a confession very near unto what you just said. “Always active, always at rest.” He’s both. He…” 23:03¶ 70 “It’s as old as Augustine, and Jonathan Edwards has a couple good quotes, repeated by John Piper at Desiring God. Let’s just start with…”
44Yahweh's Bride 1 Nov 2020 9:40¶ 28 “Augustine of Hippo, in wrestling with this in his book on the Trinity, argues that the Father breathes the Spirit to the Son, the…”
25Resurrection and the Cult of the Dead 21 Jun 2020 24:05¶ 74 “But what’s great is that Augustine’s response is to essentially say, “Okay, first of all, so did a bunch of your guys. And second,…” 24:36¶ 75 “He also makes another great point, which is specifically – and this is a very truncated version – “You realize we think that God…” 22:58¶ 70 “What’s interesting is that as we’ve been doing this podcast, it ends up oddly enough coinciding at least on certain tangential points with what…”
14Noah, the Culture Bearer 5 Apr 2020 23:15¶ 82 “Bryan was mentioning Rome and Greece, the collapses of classic civilization, and aside from the Bible, the great book that shifted people’s thinking was…” 23:47¶ 83 “Augustine has to say, “You mean the gods of fallen Troy that had to be carried by hand to found this new Rome of…” 23:54¶ 84 “But then he goes on beyond that and discusses the difference between fatalism on the one hand, and--well, Locke--contingency on the other hand, and…”
12OOPArts, Social Theory, and Progress 22 Mar 2020 31:29¶ 114 “When we come to Saint Augustine over against a pagan culture, Saint Augustine writes The City of God. What he does, after discussing why…” 37:28¶ 127 “The Middle Ages struggled, as they read Augustine, with this idea of progress, and it became more or less clear that such things were…”
6Trinity (part 3) 9 Feb 2020 9:57¶ 26 “This was Augustine’s answer in his famous work on the Trinity, which I commend to anybody who wants to follow up this stream of…” 1:56¶ 8 “There are so many things that we could tag off of what you just said, but the word dynamic struck me just now, because…” 41:42¶ 118 “There was one question that Luther – or Augustine, I’ve heard it both ways – was asked. “What was God doing before he created…”