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Augustine's autobiographical text, read by Jiang as a political memoir and doctrinal instrument rather than transparent self-revelation.
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Confessions
Augustine's autobiographical text, read by Jiang as a political memoir and doctrinal instrument rather than transparent self-revelation.
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He treats Augustine's Confessions as a political memoir and warns that memoirs by powerful people are not innocent truth-telling.
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Jiang reads the pear theft as Augustine's argument that humans sin from pleasure, not need, because human nature itself enjoys wrongdoing.
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"...to look at two major works of Augustine. The first is Confessions. And Confessions is very famous. It's something that most people would have..."
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"...true about it. So we're going to read a bit of Confessions. And this is really the most famous part. It's part of the..."
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"And in the story, he talks about, about his life, where he grows up with a pagan father and a Christian mother named Monica...."
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"And this starts from the womb, OK? We are born in sin. We are born of sin. I saw something which I had in..."
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"a gang of naughty adolescents set off late at night after we had continued our game in the streets. We carried off a huge..."
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A source-grounded reading of Augustine as empire's theologian: the Church escapes history, curiosity becomes sin, love becomes disease, passivity becomes goodness, and Arabia appears as the next place where fugitives from authority will prepare...
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