What ultimately shifted Augustine’s plausibility structures? Love. His recollection is warm and speaks to a hunger even more fundamental than the intellectual: “That man of God took me up as a father takes a newborn baby in his arms, and in the best tradition of bishops, he prized me as a foreign sojourner.”23 More than arguments or proofs, Ambrose offered the seeker Augustine something he’d been hungering for: a home, sanctuary, rest. For this refugee in a new city, arriving with questions and with so much unsettled in his life, the cathedral in Milan became an outpost of the home this
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That's how I feel. Christianity may not be rational, but it offers home, rest, solace. 'Thank God,' my tired soul whispers as it surrenders to that love. I don't care what it's source is, and whether it's rational--only that it is Love, and it is Real.
