Faith and Theology: The ethicist's prayer

Monday, 26 February 2007

“Teach me so that I may act, not just know how I ought to act.”

—Augustine, Discourses on the Psalms, Psa. 118, X.3.

Ben Myers said...: Of course, theologians could pray an equivalent prayer: "Help me to believe, not just know what I ought to believe."; Monday, February 26, 2007 6:25:00 pm
Anonymous said...: Sounds like a marginal note to Romans 7:14ff.; Monday, February 26, 2007 6:46:00 pm
John P. said...: I am glad to see that someone else is reading the Bishop's sermons on the Psalms. I have been working on a thesis in which his commentary on the "Psalms of Ascent" has been crucial. But, more importantly, I have found that set of writing to be some of his very best...; Monday, February 26, 2007 7:54:00 pm

Matt Wilcoxen