Author : Gilbert Meilaender
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 080283213X
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (28 download)
Book Synopsis The Way That Leads There by : Gilbert Meilaender
Download or read book The Way That Leads There written by Gilbert Meilaender and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.