{"id":6871,"date":"2017-04-03T12:12:53","date_gmt":"2017-04-03T17:12:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=6871"},"modified":"2017-04-03T12:12:53","modified_gmt":"2017-04-03T17:12:53","slug":"half-breed-augustine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=6871","title":{"rendered":"HALF-BREED AUGUSTINE"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Augustine’s City of God<\/em> and Confessions<\/em> have made a significant impact on my life. When people ask me for the most formative books outside the Bible, it is easy to name the top two: Confessions<\/em> and Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

I’ve read several books about Augustine. I can say that all of them have been quite good, with a few of exceptional quality. Those by Jean Bethke Elshtain and Garry Wills would top my list. Those two are now joined by Justo Gonzalez.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Gonzalez teases out the implications of Augustine being a person of two cultures: African and Greco-Roman. The Spanish word, mestizaje, means that one is a “mixed breed.” No easy thing being one and it carried far-reaching implications for how Augustine viewed himself and how he conducted his ministry.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Gonzalez covers the typical terrain with the Donatist controversy, etc. but in a way no one else has before.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Highly recommended.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Mestizo-Augustine-Theologian-Between-Cultures\/dp\/083085150X\/ref=cm_rdp_product   Augustine’s City of God and Confessions have made a significant impact on my life. When people ask me for the most formative books outside the Bible, it is easy to name the top two: Confessions and Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress. I’ve read several books about Augustine. I can say that all of them […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-review","category-church-fathers"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6871"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6872,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6871\/revisions\/6872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}