Augustine of Hippo · Theology

The Restless Heart

Augustine’s <em>Confessions</em> turned an account of his own wayward life into a theology of desire - the claim that every human longing is, beneath its disguises, a longing for God, and stays restless until it finds him.

What you'll be able to recall

You learned that Augustine read all human longing as disguised longing for God. Reconstruct his argument from desire, and explain how the Confessions uses autobiography to make it, in your own words.

Leads to Blaise Pascal.

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