Way That Leads There: Augustinian Reflections on the Christian Life (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780802832139)

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.

Author: Gilbert Meilaender
ISBN-10: 080283213X
ISBN-13: 9780802832139
Publisher: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
Language: English
Published: 08/01/2006
Pages: 184
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.52lbs
Size: 8.25h x 5.50w x 1.00d

Review Citation(s):
Commonweal 04/17/2007 pg. 35