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

Gilbert Meilander

ISBN 10: 080283213X / ISBN 13: 9780802832139

Published by William B Eerdmans Publishing Co, 2006

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Way That Leads There: Augustinian Reflections on the Christian Life
• Publisher: William B Eerdmans Publishing Co
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 080283213X
• ISBN 13: 9780802832139
• Binding: Paperback / softback
• Condition: New
• Weight: 266 grams

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Gilbert Meilaender is Phyllis and Richard DuesenbergProfessor of Christian Ethics at Valparaiso University inIndiana and a member of the President's Council onBioethics. His many other books include Faith andFaithfulness: Basic Themes in Christian Ethics;Body, Soul, and Bioethics; and Things That Count:Essays Moral and Theological.