Auggie and Buddies
After Augustine converts she is overjoyed.
Who is Monica or his mother?
Augustine runs here to calm down after a conversation with Alypius where he pulls out his hair and hammers his fists?
What is the garden?
Augustine is having a hard time accepting this church practice and it makes his complete conversion challenging.
What is chastity?
Chapters 1-5 of The Confessions are called THIS: a word that also means "to call upon."
What is the invocation?
The one Augustine tells when he is ready to convert
Who is Alypius?
Comes as a vision to Augustine while he is in the garden and embraces him.
Who is Lady Continence?
Augustine believes this is a direct result of inner conflict.
What is lack of mind control?
Throughout the book, Augustine uses these to communicate with God and to form is own beliefs.
What are rhetorical questions?
Who is St. Paul?
When Augustine's self-contained misery welled up he did this...
What is cried?
The paradox that Augustine could beat himself so his limbs obeyed the will of his mind even as his mind could not obey alludes to the Church teaching of...
This event was postponed when Augustine became deathly ill.
What is baptism?
Augustine's mentor who tells an inspiring story about Victorinus?
Who is Simplicianus?
Augustine believes he fails at this responsibility.
What is serving God?
Augustine cannot fully give this to God.
What is his mind?
Avoiding hypocrisy, obtaining forgiveness, and explaining his religious choices are all reasons why Augustine did this.
What is write The Confessions?
Tells Augustine about monasteries outside the city and of two men who had given up their worldly lives in an instant to become monks.
Who is Ponticianus?
The final factor in Augustine's conversion.
What is a child's voice from a nearby house ordering him to open his book and read?
Belief that Augustine learned from the Manicheans that he learned is false.
What is the idea of two seperate wills?
According to The Confessions, this is how you live a good life.
What is obedience to God?