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Selections from the writings of one of the most influential shapers of the western theological tradition, Augustine of Hippo (354–430), including On the Trinity, The Rule of St. Augustine, The Happy Life, On the Presence of God, and other works.

region of total unlikeness, as if I were hearing your voice from on high saying: “I am the food of grown men. Grow and you shall feed upon me. And you will not, as with the food of the body, change me into yourself, but you will be changed into me!”9 We see that Augustine was drawn to God by natural desire. He ascended from the body to sense power and from sense power to intellectual judgment by which he acknowledged the eternity of Truth above his changing mind. “And then in a flash of a trembling
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