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Introduction
As I was teaching a course on the origins of Enlightenment thought, I wanted to track down a proper reference to ex nihilo, picked up Augustine and fell into a deep well.
So much of what we read is 2nd and 3rd hand. Often the original manuscripts had far more beauty and depth than the summaries. That’s why we don’t carry commentaries to church. This was true of Augustine as well.
This talk will be crammed with original texts. Don’t panic, but view it as academic wallpaper whose significance still can’t be captured in sound-bites.