Desire and Delight

by Margaret R. Miles

Augustine's Confessions is one of the most powerfully evocative autobiographies of the Christian West. It recounts the complex experiences through which this formative theologian came to renounce the compulsive sexual practice of his youth, reinvesting his attention and affection in a disciplined spirituality. The Confessions is explicitly about desire, longing, passion--physical and spiritual. It narrates Augustine's desperate attempt to get, and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1597527513
• ISBN13: 9781597527514
• Release Date: July 2006
• Publisher: Wipf & Stock Publishers
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.47 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.1"