... humbly comes to God in praise, "Grant me Lord to know and understand which comes first-to call upon you or to praise you..." (Augustine, 3). He begs the Lord to grant him the understanding so that he may be able to praise Him. Augustine, at this point, does not quite understand what he is searching for, but he trusts that if he seeks first, God will seek for him as well. We can see how socio-culturalist, Durkheim, would disagree, "The sociocultural view shows that religion can be seen as a significant form of cultural behavior rather than as something either revealed from on high that is 'true,' or something made up by the prescientific mind that is 'false'" (Paden, 44). Durkheim believes that religion comes learned from a society because it turns something that was unknown before to something not so mysterious. For Augustine, he is surrounded by pious ...

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