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How the Early Church Embraced Distraction

By David Marno, The Conversation
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Jan 19, 2018
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For Augustine and his followers, attention was a rare and valuable experience, perhaps even more than for us since they associated it with the divine. One might expect that as a result they should have simply dismissed distraction. But they didn’t.

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