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augustine_hippo · c. 394 · score 0.02
The most notorious crime of your savagery, and your unheard-of cruelty, shakes the earth and strikes heaven, so that in your streets and shrines blood gleams and murder resounds. Among you the Roman laws lie buried, the dread of righteous courts is trampled underfoot. Among you there is certainly no reverence or fear f …
augustine_hippo · c. 422 · score 0.02
Farewell, dear friend. I pray for you daily. [Context: Count Boniface was the Roman military governor of Africa and one of the most powerful men in the Western Empire. Augustine had known him for years and had once hoped he would enter the religious life. Instead, Boniface became entangled in the deadly politics of the …
augustine_hippo · c. 402 · score 0.02
Some object: if the infant has no sin of its own, why does it need baptism? Because the infant, though personally innocent, is born into a fallen race. Original sin is not a personal crime but a condition — like being born into a besieged city. The infant did nothing to start the siege, but the siege is real, and rescu …
augustine_hippo · c. 422 · score 0.02
Augustine to Boniface, greetings. I hear disturbing reports about you, my friend, and I am compelled to write. When I first knew you, you were a man on fire for Christ. You served as a military commander with honor, defended the innocent, and lived with a discipline that put many monks to shame. You even considered lea …
augustine_hippo · c. 417 · score 0.02
Augustine to Boniface, greetings. You have written to me about the military life, and whether a soldier can be a Christian — whether the violence inherent in your profession is compatible with the faith you profess. I take this question seriously, because you ask it seriously. The short answer is yes: a soldier can be …
augustine_hippo · c. 416 · score 0.02
I know this makes many people uncomfortable. It makes me uncomfortable. But I have seen the results. Men and women who came to the Catholic Church under pressure — angry, resentful, convinced they were being persecuted — have stayed, and have come to see that what they resisted was their own liberation. Is this always …
augustine_hippo · c. 416 · score 0.01
Augustine to Boniface, greetings. You have asked me to explain, at length, the Catholic Church's position on the correction of the Donatists. This is a subject on which I have written much and thought more, and I will try to lay it out as clearly and honestly as I can. The Donatist schism began over a century ago, root …
augustine_hippo · c. 402 · score 0.01
Augustine to Boniface, my colleague in the episcopal office, greetings in the Lord. You have raised a profound and delicate question: what happens in infant baptism? The infant cannot profess faith. The infant cannot repent. The infant cannot consent to what is being done. And yet we baptize infants — and the entire Ch …