Status Updates From La Ciudad de Dios

Senior year of high school I had to read the handbook of catholic apologetics, and my favorite proof of God was “the music of beethoven, you either get it or you don’t.” Augustine has a similar one:

“We have the evidence of the world itself in all its ordered change and movement… its maker could have been none other than God, the ineffably and invisibly great, the ineffably and invisibly beautiful” -XI.4

Through part 1. Came to my first point of disagreement w/ St. A— he seems to accept the premise that we are embodied souls, which isn’t surprising considering his known Neo-platonic sympathies. I prefer Aristotle’s hylomorphicity in my conception of the relationship of body and soul. Still enjoying the book, but man was book 10 a beast. Looking forward to part 2.