Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Saint Auggy.

Once you get past St. Augustine's apparent obsession with demons, he seems to be advocating a sort of pack-rat mentality towards learning, wherein every single fact could be used to get a clearer view of the scriptures and is thus worthy of learning.

This idea of learning as an approach to God is something which has very deep roots in Christian tradition, despite an equally strong tendency for reactionism and closed mindedness.  Some of the groundbreaking scientists in the western world where strongly christian (Newton, Copernicus, etc) and we pretty much owe the survival of our written language to a few monasteries in Ireland. 

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