Tolle Lege, take up and read! These words from St. Augustine perfectly describe the human condition. Reading is the universal pilgrimage of the soul. In reading we journey to find ourselves and to save ourselves. The ultimate journey is reading the Great Books. In the Great Books we find the struggle of the human soul, its aspirations, desires, and failures. Through reading, we find faces and souls familiar to us even if they lived a thousand years ago. The unread life is not worth living, and in reading we may well discover what life is truly about and prepare ourselves for the pilgrimage of life.
About the author
Paul Krause is a writer, teacher, and campus minister. He studied theology at Yale and philosophy at the University of Buckingham. His writings have appeared in various journals, magazines, and newspapers, including
New Oxford Review,
Merion West,
The American Conservative,
Front Porch Republic,
The University Bookman, and
The Wanderer. He is a senior contributor at
The Imaginative Conservative, associate editor at
Voegelin View, and contributed to the book
The College Lecture Today (2019).
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