{"product_id":"on-the-road-with-saint-augustine-a-real-world-spirituality-for-restless-hearts-9781587434464","title":"On the Road with Saint Augustine: A Real-World Spirituality for Restless Hearts","description":"\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Brazos Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50625863549202,"sku":"9781587434464","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_7a826f4f-8de7-4a13-be7d-6b12752e3daa.jpg?v=1732642379","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/on-the-road-with-saint-augustine-a-real-world-spirituality-for-restless-hearts-9781587434464","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}