St. Paul Center Speaker Series
Return to the Heart: Biblical Spirituality of St. Augustine's Confessions
Dr. Shane Owens| April 23, 2025
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St. Augustine’s Confessions is about 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. In Dr. Shane Owens' talk, he explores topics like friendship, faith, the Church, death and how these effect our heart. This talk teaches us that an ever-present God is at work in our lives to bring us to conversion—and to eternal life.
Meet the Speaker
Dr. Shane Owens
Director of Academic & Clergy Programs, St. Paul CenterFeatured Resources
“He is most intimately present to the human heart, but the heart has strayed from him. Return to your heart, then, you wrongdoers, and hold fast to him who made you.”—St. Augustine
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.
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