Transcending the World ~ The Imaginative Conservative

Transcending the World ~ The Imaginative Conservative

Part of the continuing fascination of Augustine for people who know almost nothing of the period in which he lived, whose own time and place seem so completely removed from the corruptions of late antiquity that for them Augustine might as well have come from another planet, is the fact that here was a man whose conversion seemed to carry him quite beyond every time and place. Almost as if, in the words of T.S. Eliot: Here and there does not mat…