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of John’s identification of Jesus with the Platonic and Stoic idea of the pre-existent “Word.” A more intentional religious humanism can be found in Augustine’s use of the neo-Platonic Plotinus, especially in the philosophical psychology of remembrance developed in his Confessions.° But the most dramatic ex