Augustine and the Environment by Doody John;Paffenroth Kim;Smillie Mark;

Author:Doody, John;Paffenroth, Kim;Smillie, Mark;
Language: eng
Format: epub
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Publisher: Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
Published: 2012-08-15T00:00:00+00:00

In waking up to the world, as it actually exists, Augustine came to understand his own alienation from God’s creative project. “When I first came to know you,” Augustine wrote of his inward encounter with God, “you gave a shock to the weakness of my sight . . . and I found myself far from you ‘in a region of dissimilarity.’”[22] The dissimilarity here is not just an ontological one, a distinction between our created contingency and divine self-sufficiency, but between our delusional vision of reality and God’s providence. Augustine came to realize the source of this alienation was in himself, not in the world, and that he was powerless to do anything about it. He awoke, finally, to the full reality of his condition.

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