Theological Debates Need Less Pride, More Augustine

My annual reading of Augustine’s Confessions always surfaces something new, and this year was no exception. Perhaps because I’d just finished Kevin Vanhoozer’s acclaimed Mere Christian Hermeneutics, I was struck by a section in Book 12 of Confessions about theological debate over biblical interpretation—where Augustine takes a posture we should adopt in current disputes over the text’s meaning.Augustine is pondering the truths expounded by Moses in Genesis and the difficulty of wading thro