Status Updates From Confessioni

Re-read Book V: Carthage, Rome & Milan. Another one of my favorite sections. Wished there were more footnotes about the Manichees. Still have a lot of reading to do for class tomorrow though.

Re-read Book 4: Manichee & Astrologer. One of my favorite sections, shame it took me 3 days to get through it.

"...it cannot be that the son of these tears shall perish."

spirituality I suppose. I just think that people can get a lot out of secular art, even in a religious sense.

how plays often aim to make people feel emotions of sadness. It kind of seemed to me as though he was attacking all forms of art that are not made for the express purpose of glorifying God. And that to me seems incredibly sad and misleading. Personally I feel that all human-made art is intrinsically a glorification of God whether the artist meant it that way or even believes in God or not. But that is my own view of

halfway through book 3, I'm finding that I agree with him on pretty much all of the deeper concepts he's getting at and the underlying theological messages, but I think some of his wording or specific things he's attacking may be a little misleading or too far. As I wrote in one of the pages, maybe this is why he's a saint and I'm not. But I guess the one thing that bothered me the most was his attack of theatre and