Augustine, Sin, And The Betrayal Of Friendship

Augustine’s friend alypius demonstrates the significant role which friends exercised in augustine’s conversion. Both men struggled to discern accurately the underlying world order and the. Two great teachers on friendship, st. Augustine and c. s. Lewis, gave themselves without reservations to their friends.

Augustine is unusual in giving substantial attention to the dangers of friendship and its potential to serve as an obstacle (rather than an aid) to virtue. Despite the originality of augustine’s. Jul 12, 2018 · augustine himself had at least the raw material for a theory of original sin involving social rather than sexual transmission. Its contours are implicit in books 4 through 6 of the.