A Perennial Digression

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St. Augustine's De Dialectica V

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A Brief Word about St. Augustine

One of the unfortunate elements of becoming a Church Father is that one’s hagiography usually fails to fully encompass the essentials of one’s lived life. Origen of Alexandria was one of seven children; what kind of relationship did he have with his brothers and sisters? St. Gregory Nyssen had a wife and, together with St…

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