Question

What does St. Augustine mean with the expression "place of unlikeness"

Answer 1

Answer:

its like a womb

where he would turn more religious

Explanation:

in his article “Body Double: Saint Augustine and the Sexualized

Will,” James Wetzel offers the complementary suggestion that a key

metaphor for Book 7 is that of a womb.10 When Augustine turns inward,

he finds himself in a place of unlikeness. There, Wetzel writes, “he is

unlike God, who is presumptively spirit, and unlike the created order,

which is presumptively material.”11 In that place of unlikeness,

Augustine hears God’s voice from on high: “I am the food of the mature;

grow then, and you will eat me. You will not change me into yourself

like bodily food: you will be changed into me” (7.10.16)

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