Struggling With Sin ~ The Imaginative Conservative

Struggling With Sin ~ The Imaginative Conservative

Augustine, of course, was not the first to chart the cycle of lust, as anyone for whom the body/soul connection remains a work in progress well knows. I must now carry my thoughts back to the abominable things I did in those days,” writes Augustine at the very beginning of Book II, “the sins of the flesh which defiled my soul.” He has left his boyhood behind, the period during which he first went off to school, where pupils were regularly beaten…