The Runaway of Carthage
In 386 AD, a brilliant young professor sat weeping beneath a fig tree in a Milan garden. Augustine of Hippo had spent sixteen years running...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Genesis 3:9-15, 20.
In 386 AD, a brilliant young professor sat weeping beneath a fig tree in a Milan garden. Augustine of Hippo had spent sixteen years running from the God his mother Monica had taught him to love. He buried himself in ambition, philosophy, and a string of lovers — anything to drown out the voice that kept asking, as it once asked Adam, "Where are you?"…
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