It is a miracle…that a man should have risen again in the flesh and ascended into heaven with his flesh; but it is a greater miracle that the whole world should have believed something so unbelievable. – Augustine, sermon 272A
The Lord Christ humbled himself, so that we might know how to be humble. Though containing all things he was conceived; though giving birth to all things he was born; though giving life to all things he died… – Augustine, sermon 272A
That gust was purging their hearts of worldly chaff; that fire consuming the straw of ancient lusts; those tongues they were speaking in, filled by the Holy Spirit, were prefiguring the Church of the future through the languages of all nations. – Augustine, sermon 271#pentecost
They were new wineskins, the new wine was expected from heaven; and it came. That great bunch of grapes, after all, had already been trodden and glorified. – Augustine, sermon 267.1#Pentecost
It is simply incredible to me having read Goldberg, Lasch, Bawer, Rieff, and Gurri how tightly intertwined their central concerns were and are. Loss of structure, performative therapeutics, information tsunami in a technological Eden. Affective despair leading to nihilism. pic.twitter.com/WkjfO8odAQ
— J.D. Haltigan, PhD 🏒👨💻 (@JDHaltigan) May 19, 2021