{"product_id":"on-the-road-with-saint-augustine-a-real-world-spirituality-for-restless-hearts-paperback","title":"On the Road with Saint Augustine: A Real-World Spirituality for Restless Hearts - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJames K. A. Smith\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e★ \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e starred review\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOne of the Top 100 Books and One of the 5 Best Books in Religion for 2019, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChristianity Today \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e2020 Book Award Winner (Spiritual Formation)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eOutreach \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e2020 Resource of the Year (Spiritual Growth)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eForeword\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e INDIES 2019 Honorable Mention for Religion\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFollowing Smith's successful \u003ci\u003eYou Are What You Love\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eOn the Road with Saint Augustine\u003c\/i\u003e offers a fresh articulation of Christianity that speaks to our deepest hungers, fears, and hopes. Addressing believers and skeptics alike, this book shows how Augustine's timeless wisdom speaks to the worries and struggles of contemporary life, covering such wide-ranging topics as ambition, sex, friendship, freedom, parenthood, and death. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"As the author well says, this is not a book about St. Augustine. But it certainly is a guide for reading Augustine as he wrote it and would probably prefer to be read, with a restless heart.\"\u003cbr\u003e--\u003cb\u003eJusto L. Gonz疝ez\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Mestizo Augustine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\"It is a fundamental Augustinian trope that we are not home. Here Jamie Smith riffs with unrivaled depth and texture on what it means to be in via--to be on the way--to be not at home. I am grateful, and I will keep this book with me as I pilgrim.\"\u003cbr\u003e--\u003cb\u003eLauren F. Winner\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Dangers of Christian Practice\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eStill\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This book is James K. A. Smith's \u003ci\u003eBorn to Run\u003c\/i\u003e. It's the story of the journey we are all on. For Smith, Saint Augustine is the perfect navigator. He's familiar with that 'highway jammed with broken heroes, ' because he knows what it feels like to be a heart on the run. If you lust for the highway and feel the engine idling deep inside, your ride is here. Augustine is in the passenger seat with the map of our heart unfolded on his lap, waiting to take us home.\"\u003cbr\u003e--\u003cb\u003eBob Crawford\u003c\/b\u003e, member of The Avett Brothers and cohost of \u003ci\u003eThe Road to Now\u003c\/i\u003e podcast\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eOn the Road with Saint Augustine\u003c\/i\u003e is a spiritual reflection that reminds us why the ancient saint is not only essential for us but inescapable. With Augustine as guide, Smith takes the reader on a tour of the human heart. Profound, personal, and fast-paced, the book will nourish readers in almost any spiritual state.\"\u003cbr\u003e--\u003cb\u003eKyle Harper\u003c\/b\u003e, University of Oklahoma\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Patron Saint of Restless Hearts\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eThis is not a book about Saint Augustine. In a way, it's a book Augustine has written about each of us.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePopular speaker and award-winning author James K. A. Smith has spent time on the road with Augustine and invites us to join him on this journey with an ancient African thinker who knows far more about us than we might expect. 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eOn the Road with Saint Augustine\u003c\/i\u003e is a learned, large-hearted, and quite lively introduction to Augustine, or to life by way of Augustine, or to God by way of both. The variety of Smith's references is astonishing, as is the seamless way he moves among them. I expect many modern readers will find themselves--and, crucially, much more than themselves--in this book.\"--\u003cb\u003eChristian Wiman\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eMy Bright Abyss \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eEvery Riven Thing\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Augustine of Hippo is the patron saint of restless hearts. Now James K. A. Smith, long one of our most interesting theological thinkers, both orthodox and outlier, reintroduces this figure who is at once strange and familiar, ancient and contemporary. This book is a journey into the greatest journey of all, and a delight to read. Highly recommended.\"\u003cbr\u003e--\u003cb\u003eKrista Tippett\u003c\/b\u003e, founder and CEO, The On Being Project; host, \u003ci\u003e On Being\u003c\/i\u003e; curator, \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eThe Civil Conversations Project\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Fascinating, engrossing, insightful, beautifully written, and often brilliant, this new book will open up the story and spirituality of St. Augustine to a new generation of readers and seekers.\"\u003cbr\u003e--\u003cb\u003eJames Martin, SJ\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eJesus: A Pilgrimage\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Smith opens this book by placing the contemporary culture of seeking the real, authentic self alongside the works of Augustine; then he continues by placing our contemporary experience alongside Augustine's biography; both moves yield a fund of interesting insights.\"\u003cbr\u003e--\u003cb\u003eCharles Taylor\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eA Secular Age\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\"By following Augustine's model and sharing his own faith journey, Smith makes Augustine's guidance accessible to a new generation of seekers.\"--\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e (starred review)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJames K. A. Smith\u003c\/b\u003e (PhD, Villanova University) is a popular speaker who has written many books, including the \u003ci\u003eChristianity Today \u003c\/i\u003eBook Award winner\u003ci\u003e You Are What You Love\u003c\/i\u003e. He is professor of philosophy at Calvin University in Grand Rapids, Michigan, where he holds the Gary and Henrietta Byker Chair in Applied Reformed Theology and Worldview. He is also editor in chief of \u003ci\u003eImage\u003c\/i\u003e, a quarterly journal at the intersection of art, faith, and mystery. Smith has written for \u003ci\u003eChristianity Today\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eChristian Century\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eUSA Today\u003c\/i\u003e, and the\u003ci\u003e Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 256\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 8.9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 31, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51764956168480,"sku":"9781587434464","price":22.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/0a5c356e3ef324fdfddb8a3cb1a916cb.webp?v=1780258735","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/on-the-road-with-saint-augustine-a-real-world-spirituality-for-restless-hearts-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}