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  • Day by Day with Saint Augustine
    Donald X Burt
    Before he was a famous saint, Augustine was a notorious sinner. He wandered from the faith and, after a dramatic spiritual transformation in his thirties, returned to become a bishop and theologian in the early church. The short, daily meditations in Day by Day with Saint Augustine are candid reflections on the challenges to living a life of faith from someone who experienced t...
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    41,52 €

  • Reflections on a Dying Life
    Donald X. Burt
    Reflections on a Dying Life is an eminently accessible and deeply pastoral book of Christian eschatology. Father Burt uses his masterful knowledge of St. Augustine's writings to create a classically Catholic spirituality of aging. Integrating a deep faith with his disciplined reason, he gently, lovingly sculpts an Augustinian spirituality of death and resurrection. Every page b...
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    19,93 €

  • Let Me Know You...
    Donald X. Burt / Donald XBurt
    One of St. Augustine’s earliest prayers after his conversion was a prayer to understand himself and to discover God. He came to realize that all humans follow more or less the same path of discovery, a path that begins in darkness and ends in Wisdom. Most of us never achieve the perfection of wisdom, but in the meantime we can be certain that we are showing our love for God by ...
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    23,98 €

  • Let Me Know Myself...
    Donald X. Burt / Donald XBurt
    Soon after his conversion Augustine prayed 'O God, let me know myself; let me know you.' He was convinced that the eventual discovery of God began with a discovery of one’s self. Commenting on some of Augustine’s writings, here Father Burt reflects on what Augustine said about the nature of the 'self,' obstacles standing in the way of discovery, and some of the facts one can ...
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  • Friendship and Society
    Donald X. Burt / Donald XBurt
    Jean Bethke Elshtain in Journal of Religion "Burt's treatment of Augustinian ethics has much to recommend it, including the clarity and lucidity of his prose and his argument. . . . Other pleasures of this text include a nuanced treatment of Augustine on the family yielding, as an ideal, the family as a ‘society of friends.' . . . This is a fascinating work."Journal of ...
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    32,43 €