Tag Archives: Augustine

David Brooks’ treatment of Augustine in The Road to Character

Posted on May 7, 2015 by PaulVK

Augustine Of all the figures in Brooks’ biographical box of chocolates Augustine I knew the best. Brooks’ treatment of Augustine as a ladder climbing youth fighting inner turmoil seems postured almost like a Tim Keller sermon for modern New Yorkers. … Continue reading →

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Sickness Unto Death

Posted on April 3, 2014 by PaulVK

Why Didn’t Jesus Just Start Raising Lots of People? We saw with the Iranian Cleric raising the dead thought experiment that a person possessing this kind of power walking around among us would almost certainly provoke us to kill this person … Continue reading →

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