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Augustine (Thought-Criticism) (04)
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Augustine (Thought-Criticism) (04).
(4) The Personality
(1) Augustine was motivated by a sincere striving to bare his innermost depths.
(2) And yet we do not see the face of a man whose whole self is revealed.
(3) From one point of view, one may say:
1) He is inwardly chaotic, and consequently he desires absolute authority;
2) he has a tendency toward nihilism, and consequently he requires an absolute guarantee;
3) he is without strong attachments in the world (friends, a woman), and consequently he strives for God without a world.
(4) Such a psychology of contradictions may be illuminating on one plane, but it does not attain to the earnestness of Augustinian thinking.
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Introduction
Theology 
