…world with eternal truths, especially eternal mathematical truths. And the Platonic notions were incorporated into Christian theology by Saint Augustine, who thought that the laws of nature, the Platonic forms of everything that exists beyond space and time,…

…world with eternal truths, especially eternal mathematical truths. And the Platonic notions were incorporated into Christian theology by Saint Augustine, who thought that the laws of nature, the Platonic forms of everything that exists beyond space and time,…

…Testament comes the whole implicit philosophy of the Greeks. And it was relatively easy for early Christian theologians like Saint Augustine to see how the Platonic philosophy could be fitted into a Christian theology. The Platonic forms or ideas were none…

…heard him speak. These experiences matter to people because they're taken as first-person evidence that spirit is there and responds. Augustine, torn against himself, struggled to become a Christian. He was unable to convert until he heard God speak. Joan of…

…word of God through which all things were made. It's the name and form principle or the platonic idea principle, which St. Augustine and other early theologians were Platonists or Neoplatonists. And that sort of got built in. And then the spirit, the Holy…

…resonance, and transmitted from generation to generation. And I'd be curious to hear about your thoughts about memory. I know St. Augustine wrote about memory as being a site of intimacy or potential intimacy with God. And C.S. Lewis, I know you've written…

…also experienced revelation. So I'd be curious to hear what your thoughts are on memory. Well, thank you for mentioning St. Augustine. No event is complete without quotes from St. Augustine, in my view. But when Augustine addresses the question of memory in…

…your thoughts are on memory. Well, thank you for mentioning St. Augustine. No event is complete without quotes from St. Augustine, in my view. But when Augustine addresses the question of memory in his autobiographical reflection, The Confessions, he says…

…you for mentioning St. Augustine. No event is complete without quotes from St. Augustine, in my view. But when Augustine addresses the question of memory in his autobiographical reflection, The Confessions, he says some really quite extraordinary things about…

…well, this may be a kind of technical theological question, but I can't think of a better person to ask it. Saint Augustine, in his so-called psychological model of the Holy Trinity, thinks of God the Father as being the bearer of memory, and memory…

…them and the universe goes back a long way. And in the West, one of the philosophers who thought about this was Saint Augustine. And he pointed out that space and time come into being with the universe. It's not that the universe comes into being within…

…which is the dynamic principle of God, which is the breath, the wind, the flow of life, and is also joy or bliss. St Augustine, one of the early theologians, thought of the Holy Trinity as the knower, the known and the joy of knowing. Again, it's sort…