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5 Minutes in Church History with Stephen Nichols

76. Augustine on Friendship

5 Minutes in Church History with Stephen Nichols

Ligonier Ministries

Christianity, History, Religion & Spirituality

4.81.7K Ratings

🗓️ 16 November 2022

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

True friends are a gift from God. In today's journey back through the archives, Dr. Stephen Nichols introduces us to several of Augustine's close friends and discusses his view on friendship.

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0:00.0

Thanks for tuning in to Five Minutes in Church History, I'm Steve Nichols.

0:04.1

What you're about to hear is one of my favorite episodes from our archives.

0:08.3

We're taking a short break from releasing new content, but we will be back with all new

0:12.6

material in January 2023.

0:15.4

Make sure you're subscribed to the show so you won't miss any favorites.

0:18.2

I hope you enjoy this archival episode of Five Minutes in Church History.

0:24.8

Welcome back to another episode of Five Minutes in Church History.

0:27.9

On this episode, we're going to be looking at our good old friend Augustine, but this

0:31.4

time we're going to be considering Augustine and his friends and Augustine on friendship.

0:37.0

Friendship was very meaningful to Augustine.

0:38.4

In fact, one writer said that Augustine is the first person to think of and to give

0:42.7

us a theology of friendship.

0:45.8

Friendship was very important to him.

0:47.1

He often liked to quote the famous line about friendship from Cicero.

0:52.4

The Greeks often thought about friendship.

0:54.7

They thought what is the nature of friendship, what brings friends together, and all this

0:59.2

sort of culminates in a thought that was presented by the great Roman thinker Cicero when he says

1:05.4

that friendship is agreement with kindness and affection about things human and divine.

1:12.6

Augustine believed this, and throughout most of his life, he would quote this when he was

1:16.4

writing to good friends of his.

1:18.6

But later in his life, he adds a little bit of a twist to this definition of friendship.

1:23.6

But before we get to his definition, let's talk about some of the friends that are in Augustine's

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