![]() This edition is intended above all for prayer and meditation. In Augustine, the heart is as crucial as the mind. ![]() It contains selections from The City of God, culled for their beauty and spiritual power, bolstered with notes, and arranged by theme, from creation to Rome to happiness to the end of time. This volume, however, edited by Hans Urs von Balthasar, offers a simple road through Augustine's masterpiece. Yet few of us will ever read the gargantuan work which stretches past one thousand pages. ![]() Thomas Aquinas, Charlemagne, John Calvin, Hannah Arendt, and Pope Benedict XVI all drew from the text's deep and varied wells. ![]() Augustine's The City of God, not only in politics and philosophy, but in the spirit, with its exploration of the relationship between a loving God and a shattered world. Few books have impacted the West as deeply as St. ![]()
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