The Way That Leads There

<DIV>Saint Augustine formulated the classic Christian understanding of desire that our hearts are restless until they rest in God. Gilbert Meilaender maintains that this frustrated desire lies at the heart of our existence. In <I>The Way That Leads There</I> he takes Augustine as a conversation partner for exploring subjects that human beings have wrestled with for centuries -- desire duty politics sex and grief. Meilaender's carefully reasoned insightful work rescues Augustine from many of our misperceptions and interacts meaningfully with both C. S. Lewis and Catholic moral theology generating insights on difficult topics. The picture of life that emerges in these pages is one of incompleteness of our inability to perfect and unify our moral lives. Yet this inability is not a cause for despair; it is rather a call to look with Augustine to God as the source and object of our greatest desire.</DIV>