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In book XIV, Augustine, perhaps Catholicism’s most notoriously recovered lothario, gives a good discussion on why and how actions that were created good can be corrupted. Some Aristotelian virtue theory crept into this chapter, and with the right direction of the will at the center of this book it’s easy to see why. I’m a notorious fan of the big A, so I of course loved to see it.

Halfway done. I believe I just read the first defense of the doctrine of the baptism of desire, but I’m not quite sure if it is the first. If it is, I didn’t know it was another Augustine banger. And even if it isn’t, I didn’t know it was developed as early as Augustine’s time.