The human person and a heart unquiet -- Memory and a heart recollected -- Sin and a heart disintegrated -- Belief and a heart illumined -- Friendship and a heart united -- Death and a heart quieted -- The church and a heart re-created -- Jesus and a heart passionate

"St. Augustine's Confessions is the first autobiography in Western literature and a perennial classic of rhetoric, philosophy, and theology. It is also one man's journey away from and back to God, finding himself along the way. And though Augustine's sin and his desires for love, happiness, and peace are his own, in them we can recognize aspects of our own experience. Return to the Heart: The Biblical Spirituality of St. Augustine's Confessions invites readers to follow in the footsteps of an enduring spiritual master. Bringing St. Augustine's wisdom to a new generation, Shane Owens reveals that it is only in the heart-to-heart encounter with God that we become whole and understand ourselves. Return to the Heart gives convincing testimony from St. Augustine to the reality that an ever-present God is at work in our lives to bring us to conversion--and to eternal life."--Provided by publisher