{"id":9457,"date":"2015-02-13T19:41:15","date_gmt":"2015-02-13T23:41:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/?p=9457"},"modified":"2015-02-13T19:41:15","modified_gmt":"2015-02-13T23:41:15","slug":"kristin-lavransdatter-as-the-great-augustinian-novel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/2015\/02\/kristin-lavransdatter-as-the-great-augustinian-novel.html","title":{"rendered":"Kristin Lavransdatter as &#8220;The Great Augustinian Novel&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>ooh:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I\u2019ve always thought of <em>Kristin Lavransdatter<\/em> as \u201cthe great Augustinian novel.\u201d I\u2019ve never read anything that conveyed more powerfully the Augustinian sense of lives that are fragmentary and damaged, which we can\u2019t hold together in any rounded meaningful whole, but must entrust to a grace which is slowly drawing them into a pattern that we can\u2019t see much of yet and won\u2019t in this life.<\/p>\n<p>from an email from a friend<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wesleyhill.tumblr.com\/post\/110900021931\/ive-always-thought-of-kristin-lavransdatter-as\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">via<\/a><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ooh: I\u2019ve always thought of Kristin Lavransdatter as \u201cthe great Augustinian novel.\u201d I\u2019ve never read anything that conveyed more powerfully the Augustinian sense of lives that are fragmentary and damaged, which we can\u2019t hold together in any rounded meaningful whole, but must entrust to a grace which is slowly drawing them into a pattern that 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