John G
The Living Force
My daughter will be reading this book for school (Catholic school) and I read it since we got the books before school started (my wife read Frankenstein and To Kill a Mockingbird). I'll probably be adding to this over time.
Augustine used to be a Manichee (Gnostic) and this is one of the things he is "confessing". He ended up disliking them for some valid reasons like the Manichees believing eclipses were the sun or moon hiding from cosmic battles between light and darkness or thinking that certain fruits (but not apples because of its role in Eden) could cause the body to liberate imprisoned particles of divinity. Augustine was said by the Cs to be a whitewasher for the early church and I'm sure the Manichees had some of this too aka whitewashing the role of comets in history.
Augustine was also into the Neoplatonists via Plotinus and one thing he did via Plotinus was relate Being, Knowing, and Willing to the Christian Trinity. He thinks of this triad as three aspects of our human self but tries to relate it to the Trinity also. This seems very 4th Way/Cs-like, the law of 3 in particular. Augustine also was into the Stoics a bit via Seneca and unfortunately Cicero.
Augustine used to be a Manichee (Gnostic) and this is one of the things he is "confessing". He ended up disliking them for some valid reasons like the Manichees believing eclipses were the sun or moon hiding from cosmic battles between light and darkness or thinking that certain fruits (but not apples because of its role in Eden) could cause the body to liberate imprisoned particles of divinity. Augustine was said by the Cs to be a whitewasher for the early church and I'm sure the Manichees had some of this too aka whitewashing the role of comets in history.
Augustine was also into the Neoplatonists via Plotinus and one thing he did via Plotinus was relate Being, Knowing, and Willing to the Christian Trinity. He thinks of this triad as three aspects of our human self but tries to relate it to the Trinity also. This seems very 4th Way/Cs-like, the law of 3 in particular. Augustine also was into the Stoics a bit via Seneca and unfortunately Cicero.
