Publishers Weekly starred review One of the Top 100 Books and One
of the 5 Best Books in Religion for 2019, Publishers Weekly
Christianity Today 2020 Book Award Winner (Spiritual Formation)
Outreach 2020 Resource of the Year (Spiritual Growth) Foreword
INDIES 2019 Honorable Mention for Religion This is not a book about
Saint Augustine. In a way, it's a book Augustine has written about
each of us. Popular speaker and award-winning author James K. A.
Smith has spent time on the road with Augustine, and he invites us
to take this journey too, for this ancient African thinker knows
far more about us than we might expect. Following Smith's
successful You Are What You Love, this book shows how Augustine can
be a pilgrim guide to a spirituality that meets the complicated
world we live in. Augustine, says Smith, is the patron saint of
restless hearts--a guide who has been there, asked our questions,
and knows our frustrations and failed pursuits. Augustine spent a
lifetime searching for his heart's true home and he can help us
find our way. "What makes Augustine a guide worth considering,"
says Smith, "is that he knows where home is, where rest can be
found, what peace feels like, even if it is sometimes ephemeral and
elusive along the way." Addressing believers and skeptics alike,
this book shows how Augustine's timeless wisdom speaks to the
worries and struggles of contemporary life, covering topics such as
ambition, sex, friendship, freedom, parenthood, and death. As Smith
vividly and colorfully brings Augustine to life for 21st-century
readers, he also offers a fresh articulation of Christianity that
speaks to our deepest hungers, fears, and hopes.
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