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A conversion scene in Augustine's biography where God tells him to open the Bible and he begins his religious journey.
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Damascus moment
A conversion scene in Augustine's biography where God tells him to open the Bible and he begins his religious journey.
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Glossary
A conversion or 'seeing the light' moment, here applied to Paul's turn from persecutor to follower.
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Paul's Damascus moment turns him into a fanatical follower of Jesus despite never meeting Jesus or Jesus' followers, which Jiang marks as strange.
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"...But then one day, he has a, what we call a Damascus moment, right? God speaks to him and says, Augustine, open the Bible...."
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"...people. And then Paul, at this point, has something called the Damascus moment."
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"Okay? The Damascus moment is a very famous metaphor in English. It means to see the light and to change your opinion. Okay? And..."
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"...the light, when God spoke to him, when he had his Damascus moment, he started to study the Bible rigorously. And then he was..."
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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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