Tag Archives: gita

Canon

Wednesday, December 3, 2008

I was in a campus dining hall yesterday. A member of the staff had briefly left her post, leaving behind a small, compact book, lying open to a page which was filled with dense, carefully laid out text. I liked the book’s brown cover and its thin pages — I think that it was a [...]

Filed in Scriptures | Also tagged , , | Comments (1)

Augustine on the audacity of hope

Monday, December 1, 2008

I’ve absorbed the title of author (and President-elect) Barack Obama into this post, in order to present what I believe Saint Augustine considers the audacity of hope in the culmination of his life’s work, the City of God.
Philosophers, Augustine contends, seek “Supreme Happiness” in the ends of their logical inquiries, and while some may receive [...]

Filed in Scriptures | Also tagged , , , , , | Comments (1)