Tom LA Books | CONFESSIONS of St. AUGUSTINE - A Maybe Midrash discussion with Dario and Jordan @tomlabooks3263 | Uploaded August 2022 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
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Jordan, Dario and I discuss our Maybe Midrash 2022 classic choice "Confessions" by St. Augustine.
Jordan Parsons @jordanparsons5703 youtube.com/channel/UC2DDaUvYvUSUbRgD7xS4c9w
Dario @darioa1345 youtube.com/channel/UCRED77Ubv1vPMosDlRNIjDA
00:00 Introduction
2:54 Jordan's general impressions
4:18 Dario's first impressions
6:18 What is "Confessiones" about? Meaning of "Confessions"
12:22 Augustine and the Scriptures
16:19 Swedish editions and overall structure of "Confessions"
19:22 Book 10,27 "Too late did I love Thee"
24:41 The book as a prayer that had to be written
27:13 Augustine's view of rationality
29:50 Christian "bias" in Augustine's thinking
31:45 God as the remedy to our existential anxiety
35:00 Weakening of Christian theology tradition in our times
41:48 Augustine and his mother
(A clarification on my question in this section: it’s not “Is being able to think more important than the love of your mother?”, but rather: “Is the struggle to understand rationally the entire universe more important than the love of your mother?”).
50:04 Augustine and our modern age
Confessions (Latin: Confessiones) is an autobiographical work by Saint Augustine of Hippo, consisting of 13 books written in Latin between AD 397 and 400. The work outlines Saint Augustine's sinful youth and his conversion to Christianity.
Modern English translations of it are sometimes published under the title The Confessions of Saint Augustine in order to distinguish the book from other books with similar titles. Its original title was Confessions in Thirteen Books, and it was composed to be read out loud with each book being a complete unit.
Confessions is generally considered one of Augustine's most important texts. It is widely seen as the first Western Christian autobiography ever written (Ovid had invented the genre at the start of the first century AD with his Tristia) and was an influential model for Christian writers throughout the Middle Ages. Professor Henry Chadwick wrote that Confessions will "always rank among the great masterpieces of western literature."
#maybemidrash2022
Jordan, Dario and I discuss our Maybe Midrash 2022 classic choice "Confessions" by St. Augustine.
Jordan Parsons @jordanparsons5703 youtube.com/channel/UC2DDaUvYvUSUbRgD7xS4c9w
Dario @darioa1345 youtube.com/channel/UCRED77Ubv1vPMosDlRNIjDA
00:00 Introduction
2:54 Jordan's general impressions
4:18 Dario's first impressions
6:18 What is "Confessiones" about? Meaning of "Confessions"
12:22 Augustine and the Scriptures
16:19 Swedish editions and overall structure of "Confessions"
19:22 Book 10,27 "Too late did I love Thee"
24:41 The book as a prayer that had to be written
27:13 Augustine's view of rationality
29:50 Christian "bias" in Augustine's thinking
31:45 God as the remedy to our existential anxiety
35:00 Weakening of Christian theology tradition in our times
41:48 Augustine and his mother
(A clarification on my question in this section: it’s not “Is being able to think more important than the love of your mother?”, but rather: “Is the struggle to understand rationally the entire universe more important than the love of your mother?”).
50:04 Augustine and our modern age
Confessions (Latin: Confessiones) is an autobiographical work by Saint Augustine of Hippo, consisting of 13 books written in Latin between AD 397 and 400. The work outlines Saint Augustine's sinful youth and his conversion to Christianity.
Modern English translations of it are sometimes published under the title The Confessions of Saint Augustine in order to distinguish the book from other books with similar titles. Its original title was Confessions in Thirteen Books, and it was composed to be read out loud with each book being a complete unit.
Confessions is generally considered one of Augustine's most important texts. It is widely seen as the first Western Christian autobiography ever written (Ovid had invented the genre at the start of the first century AD with his Tristia) and was an influential model for Christian writers throughout the Middle Ages. Professor Henry Chadwick wrote that Confessions will "always rank among the great masterpieces of western literature."
