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A powerful position on persistence in prayer: Monica prayed for nine years for her son before he came to know Christ, but was given hope and strength by this vision she had. How many in this day, myself included, would psychoanalyze a dream and dismiss it in times of despair!

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I wonder how much credit we are willing to give the inquiring mind, here in the South especially, on matters such as theology. There is no room for exploration, no room for error: my mother has likewise wrung her hands for my sake in my studying philosophy and different theological positions, for fear that I will by them be led astray. It’s not a lack of faith, I’m sure–it’s a matter of fearing the unknown, and not accepting that a person has to make their own mistakes; or, if that analogy doesn’t suit, to scrape themselves up learning to climb the mountainside.

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References.
Augustine, St. Confessions. Henry Chadwick, trans. ISBN [2] 0-19-283372-3 (Paperback).

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A powerful position on persistence in prayer: Monica prayed for nine years for her son before he came to know Christ, but was given hope and strength by this vision she had. How many in this day, myself included, would psychoanalyze a dream and dismiss it in times of despair!

xii (21)

I wonder how much credit we are willing to give the inquiring mind, here in the South especially, on matters such as theology. There is no room for exploration, no room for error: my mother has likewise wrung her hands for my sake in my studying philosophy and different theological positions, for fear that I will by them be led astray. It’s not a lack of faith, I’m sure–it’s a matter of fearing the unknown, and not accepting that a person has to make their own mistakes; or, if that analogy doesn’t suit, to scrape themselves up learning to climb the mountainside.

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References.
Augustine, St. Confessions. Henry Chadwick, trans. ISBN [4] 0-19-283372-3 (Paperback).