Considering it took me about an hour to get through 15 pages tonight this could get interesting. But I'm learning so much over the little I'm actually getting through. It's a slow but robust read (kind of like a good cigar or cup of coffee). I thought I'd share a few thoughts about Augustine as I plow through.
As Tim Keller described, Augustine was a pretty vehement womanizer in his twenties. Recently after he came to faith in Christ he was visiting a town where one of his old women approached him to embrace him and rekindle a former affair. He passed by her, literally shrugging her off. The woman thinking he merely didn't recognize her, approached him again saying, "Augustine, Augustine it is I!" He turned to her and replied, "Yes, but it is no longer I."
I read an aged sermon Piper gave on Augustine and it stirred up in me a desire for further research and even gave me motivation to read The City of God. So here goes...
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