Augustine, Addiction and Lent: A Pedagogic Exercise

Abstract

The article describes a series of pedagogic exercises developed to help students in a General Education course at a Jesuit university to engage fruitfully with Augustine’s Confessions in a way that will facilitate and deepen their understanding of a classic text of the Western tradition and, at the same time, promote their personal formation in keeping with the goals of Ignatian pedagogy.

Keywords

• Augustine
• pedagogy
• core texts/great books programs
• history of Christianity