Opinion of Augustine

[Statilius the Epicurean]

Crypto-Manichean whose neuroses ruined sex for 2,000 years? Or more nuanced?

[afleitch]

Troubled.

[Samof94]

Crypto-Manichean whose neuroses ruined sex for 2,000 years? Or more nuanced?

Yeah. He was kind of obsessed with sex in general.

[Chunk Yogurt for President!]

One of the best.

[RFayette 🇻🇦]

Fantastic

[Filuwaúrdjan]

One of the most extraordinary minds in history, and a man whose influence is almost beyond comprehension. And still quite readable, all this time later.

[Kingpoleon]

“The Catholic faith, … I now realized could be maintained without presumption. This was especially true after I had heard one or two parts of the Old Testament explained allegorically—whereas before this, when I had interpreted them literally, they had ‘killed’ me spiritually.”

Someone who most Christian thinkers today know too little of.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

A Neoplatonist who nonetheless made significant contributions to Christian thought. Even where I think he erred, his views must be consulted.

[Associate Justice PiT]

     Overall FF, though he erred in some places and was taken too far in other places. I appreciate his contributions to the Church, even if his writings have served as a springboard for other theological currents that I appreciate less.

[Mopsus]

Had the best scheme for distributing the four Zoas among the Evangelists.

[°Leprechaun]

One of the worst.

[Georg Ebner]

Crypto-Manichean whose neuroses ruined sex for 2,000 years? Or more nuanced?

Yeah. He was kind of obsessed with sex in general.

... say only those, who are not aware, that most other ChurchFathers were more rigid.

[Samof94]

Crypto-Manichean whose neuroses ruined sex for 2,000 years? Or more nuanced?

Yeah. He was kind of obsessed with sex in general.

... say only those, who are not aware, that most other ChurchFathers were more rigid.

He wasn’t as against sex within marriage as some of the other people were. The idea of total celibacy was quite common in some branches.

[Blue3]

Some of his writings are beautiful and inspire the best in people, and some of his writing pushed back and still hold back Western civilization through their lingering legacy.