Memory, Identity, Easter

Opinion

Memory, Identity, Easter

Andrew Klavan

“Great is the power of memory, a fearful thing, O my God, a deep and boundless manifoldness; and this thing is the mind, and this am I myself.”

The words are from the Confessions of St. Augustine, one of the founding documents of Christian theology. Augustine understood that, to a large extent, what we remember is who we are. In some sense, our soul is a story, the story of our lives.

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