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The Way That Leads There : Augustinian Reflections on the Christian Life
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The Way That Leads There : Augustinian Reflections on the Christian Life Paperback - 2006

by Meilaender, Gilbert

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  • Title The Way That Leads There : Augustinian Reflections on the Christian Life
  • Author Meilaender, Gilbert
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: Repri
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 184
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Eerdmans Publishing Company, William B, Grand Rapids
  • Date 2006-08-01
  • Features Index, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 4531380-6
  • ISBN 9780802832139 / 080283213X
  • Weight 0.52 lbs (0.24 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.25 x 5.5 x 1 in (20.96 x 13.97 x 2.54 cm)
  • Themes
    • Religious Orientation: Catholic
    • Religious Orientation: Christian
    • Theometrics: Academic
  • Library of Congress subjects Christian life, Augustine
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2006008541
  • Dewey Decimal Code 241.042

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From the rear cover

Saint Augustine formulated the classic Christian understanding of desire, that "our hearts are restless until they rest in God." Gilbert Meilaender maintains that this frustrated desire lies at the heart of our existence. In "The Way That Leads There" he takes Augustine as a "conversation partner" for exploring subjects that human beings have wrestled with for centuries -- desire, duty, politics, sex, and grief. Meilaender's carefully reasoned, insightful work rescues Augustine from many of our misperceptions and interacts meaningfully with both C. S. Lewis and Catholic moral theology, generating insights on difficult topics. The picture of life that emerges in these pages is one of incompleteness, of our inability to perfect and unify our moral lives. Yet this inability is not a cause for despair; it is rather a call to look, with Augustine, to God as the source and object of our greatest desire.

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Citations

  • Commonweal, 04/17/2007, Page 35

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