Our Restless Heart
Subtitle: The Augustinian Tradition (Traditions of Christian Spirituality)
Publisher: orbis books
Published: May 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 172
ISBN-13: 9781570754746
Subjects: Theology; Spirituality - General; Religion; Religion - Church History; Christianity - History - General; Augustine; Influence; Augustine,; Saint, Bishop of Hippo
First sentence: Augustine of Hippo, that man of restless heart, has profoundly shaped Western Christianity.
Description: The figure of Augustine of Hippo looms large over the history of Western Christianity: theologian, mystic, monk, philosopher, artists, bishop, ascetic, convert, polemicist, seeker. Augustine's distinctive spiritual vision has played and continues to play a profoundly formative role in both imagining and living the Christian life. For some his presence is celebrated, for others it is lamented--for few can it be a matter of indifference. This survey of such a vast, complicated and controversial terrain begins with Augustine and his own restless heart and then traces the legacy of this spiritual vision as it is taken up by other restless seekers through the centuries.