Augustine and the vast interior: A discussion on Christian Asceticism
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SummaryAugustine's Confessions are built upon the twin poles of a search for God and a search for self. These twin poles are also twining poles because Augustine proclaims that one can only understand self in light of God and that one can only find God through self-knowledge. In one of his sermons, Augustine described the act of confession as, “accusation of oneself; praise of God.” This act of confession results from the search. The search itself, as I have described elsewhere , is descent to an interiority of unfathomable depth and discovery of a God of incomprehensible immutability. In this essay, I will examine the part of confession involving “accusation of oneself” by analyzing the origins, development, nature, and implications of Augustine's self-accusation.
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