Rooted in Christ ~ The Imaginative Conservative

Rooted in Christ ~ The Imaginative Conservative

From the first moment of his conversion, rivetingly recounted in the pages of his Confessions, Augustine rooted himself in Christ, determined to cleave to his person and the redemption wrought by the sacrifice of his life. Not as mere idea, distant and remote, toward which he would now and again direct his attention. Such rarefied realms, so beloved by men with minds like Plotinus, who would never dream of actually talking to God, were not for h…