Group #2
6/7/17
Bewley, Tyler
Gaydarzhi, Mark
Guerrero, Judeashia
Jordan, Justin
Lomas, Isabella
Martin, Christopher
Morton, Josh
Moua, Amy
Stewart, Peter
In what specific ways does Augustine see God working in ways he cannot understand? Discuss several examples, referring to specific passages in the text.
In Augustine’s Confessions, all throughout the books, Augustine is talking to God. The books are about different times in his life from childhood to the death of his mother when he was thirty-three. In many ways Augustine see’s God working in ways he cannot understand and I will be writing about those ways using several different specific examples from The Confessions.
To begin, the first example of when Augustine didn’t understand the work of God was during his boyhood. In this passage when Augustine says “O God, my God what emptiness and mockeries I now experience… I went to school to learn; but if I proved idle in learning, I was soundly beaten.” (page 1181) I feel that he is questioning why this was happening. He feels that there is no point of using what he learned because they are meant for “honor among men and deceitful riches.” (page 1181). …show more content…
When Augustine says, “Why I left the one country and went to the other, You Knew, O God, but you did not tell either me or my mother.” (page 1189), I feel he isn’t understanding why God didn’t tell them. Later, you read that this news brought grief to Augustine’s mother and she was very saddened by the fact that her son was leaving, but if God knew why and could explain it to Augustine’s mother, why didn’t he. I feel that’s a major work of God that Augustine did not understand. But not only that he didn’t tell Augustine why either. Which probably doesn’t make sense to Augustine because during infancy, God gave him so much, but as Augustine gets older it seems that God is becoming less and less
6/7/17
Bewley, Tyler
Gaydarzhi, Mark
Guerrero, Judeashia
Jordan, Justin
Lomas, Isabella
Martin, Christopher
Morton, Josh
Moua, Amy
Stewart, Peter
In what specific ways does Augustine see God working in ways he cannot understand? Discuss several examples, referring to specific passages in the text.
In Augustine’s Confessions, all throughout the books, Augustine is talking to God. The books are about different times in his life from childhood to the death of his mother when he was thirty-three. In many ways Augustine see’s God working in ways he cannot understand and I will be writing about those ways using several different specific examples from The Confessions.
To begin, the first example of when Augustine didn’t understand the work of God was during his boyhood. In this passage when Augustine says “O God, my God what emptiness and mockeries I now experience… I went to school to learn; but if I proved idle in learning, I was soundly beaten.” (page 1181) I feel that he is questioning why this was happening. He feels that there is no point of using what he learned because they are meant for “honor among men and deceitful riches.” (page 1181). …show more content…
When Augustine says, “Why I left the one country and went to the other, You Knew, O God, but you did not tell either me or my mother.” (page 1189), I feel he isn’t understanding why God didn’t tell them. Later, you read that this news brought grief to Augustine’s mother and she was very saddened by the fact that her son was leaving, but if God knew why and could explain it to Augustine’s mother, why didn’t he. I feel that’s a major work of God that Augustine did not understand. But not only that he didn’t tell Augustine why either. Which probably doesn’t make sense to Augustine because during infancy, God gave him so much, but as Augustine gets older it seems that God is becoming less and less