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  • On the Road with Saint Augustine

  • A Real-World Spirituality for Restless Hearts
  • By: James K.A. Smith
  • Narrated by: Michael Page
  • Length: 8 hrs and 15 mins
  • 4.6 out of 5 stars (19 ratings)

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On the Road with Saint Augustine

By: James K.A. Smith
Narrated by: Michael Page
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Summary

This is not an audiobook about Saint Augustine. In a way, it's an audiobook 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 audiobook 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 audiobook 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 a 21st-century audience, he also offers a fresh articulation of Christianity that speaks to our deepest hungers, fears, and hopes.

©2019 James K. A. Smith (P)2019 eChristian
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Very helpful introduction and summary of Augustine and application to living as a Christian in today's culture.

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Augustine mapped my heart

Whether you are familiar with Augustine or not, you will love the man by the end

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