Augustine of Hippo

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Three books, one life. The Garden and the Flame is the first meeting: a complete book, free, in which you sit with Augustine before you walk the whole way with him. Then the walk itself, in the three movements every Sacred Life keeps. Stolen Pears and Burning Hearts holds the early life: a boyhood prank in a Tagaste pear orchard, the smoke and fire of Carthage, the long flight from the God who refused to stop pursuing him, and the garden where it ended. The Bishop of the Storm holds the works and ministry: thirty-five years after his baptism, the exhausted bishop at dawn, the preacher in the summer heat, the pastor weeping over a congregation he loved. The City That Cannot Fall holds the enduring teaching: grace, the two cities, and the gift to the Church and the soul that has never stopped giving. Each book keeps its stretch of the road; together they are the whole life.

All three volumes are narrated in full.

Volume I · Early lifeStolen Pears and Burning HeartsA thief, a lover, a seeker, and a man in full flight from the God who refused to stop pursuing him.Narrated in full

Volume II · Works and ministryThe Bishop of the StormThe exhausted bishop mediating disputes at dawn, the preacher thundering through the summer heat, the pastor weeping over his people.Narrated in full

Volume III · Enduring teachingThe City That Cannot FallThe whole Augustine, lover, doubter, theologian, bishop, saint, and his theology of grace and the two cities.Narrated in full