Confessions by Saint Augustine
Week 1: Introduction — "Our Heart Is Restless"
Read the Publisher's Preface and Book I, opening paragraphs of The Confessions of Saint Augustine. Key passage: "Thou madest us for Thyself, and our heart is restless, until it repose in Thee."
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Before diving into Augustine's life story, this week we pause to absorb his opening address to God — arguably the most concentrated theology in the whole book — and to ask what it stirs up in us.
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7 questions1.Augustine opens not with his biography but with praise: "Great art Thou, O Lord, and greatly to be praised." Why do you think he begins a memoir this way? What does it tell you about what kind of book the Confessions is?
2.Augustine wrestles immediately with a philosophical puzzle: How can God "come into" him when God already fills all things? He asks, "What room is there within me, whither my God can come into me?" In your own words, what is Augustine struggling with here, and why does it matter for prayer?
3.The line "our heart is restless, until it repose in Thee" is the book's thesis. Where do you see that restlessness in your own life — in what things have you sought rest that could not ultimately provide it?
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