Kristin Lavransdatter as “The Great Augustinian Novel”

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I’ve always thought of Kristin Lavransdatter as “the great Augustinian novel.” I’ve never read anything that conveyed more powerfully the Augustinian sense of lives that are fragmentary and damaged, which we can’t hold together in any rounded meaningful whole, but must entrust to a grace which is slowly drawing them into a pattern that we can’t see much of yet and won’t in this life.

from an email from a friend

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