The Strangeness of Augustine
Augustinian Studies 32.2(2001) 201-206

To spend decades in the company of a long dead African bishop cannot
fail to leave its mark on the sojourner. It may be extreme to speak of
Stockholm syndrome, and I suppose it might be questioned whether it is he
that holds us hostage or we him, but perhaps the relationship is more one of
the old Spanish married couple that Peter Brown spoke of in the preface to
his Religion and Society in the Age of Saint Augustine,*1 bound by ties of
illusión, a shared version of the world arising out of shared experience.

Augustine holds special sway over his students, more than most other
ancient figures, for several reasons. First, his influence over after-generations
has been broad and deep and he has merited close study. Second, his
association over the last centuries with one and another stream of modern
Christianity has assured him a cadre of partisan readers, both supporters and......

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