Augustine’s Journey
Follow the restless heart from doubt to devotion through the words and world of Augustine.
4 steps3 weeks
- 1essay
Augustine and the Restless Heart
Explore what the Confessions still teach us about longing and conversion.
- 2book
Confessions
Read Books I–IV. Pay attention to how Augustine describes his early desires.
- 3essay
The Problem of Meaning
Augustine’s restlessness was a crisis of meaning. See how that crisis echoes today.
- 4book
Confessions
Now read Books VIII–X. The garden scene in Book VIII is the turning point.