{"product_id":"fire-on-the-altar-setting-our-souls-ablaze-through-st-augustines-confessions-by-c-c-pecknold","title":"Fire on the Altar: Setting Our Souls Ablaze through St. Augustine's Confessions by C. C. Pecknold","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn Fire on the Altar, renowned Augustinian theologian C. C. Pecknold provides readers with a genuinely Catholic understanding of Augustine's Confessions. Setting out to free readers from liberal and individualistic distortions of Augustine's anthropology, Pecknold argues that a religious and liturgical understanding of Augustine's famous work unlocks a more Catholic approach. Strikingly, Fire on the Altar demonstrates that Augustine's anthropology is essentially built around the concept of an \"altar\" at the center of the soul and culminates in the Eucharist setting fire to our hearts and minds. Examining Augustine's orientation to the altar, Pecknold explores: Our duty to worship God The \"religious\" nature of our sins What we offer to God through our hearts The kind of worship that the mind can make The vicarious sacrifices that we can make for the love of neighbor The intercession of saints The importance of friends and a social understanding of the person The place of bishops Read more\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the Publisher Michael A. Dauphinais, Fr. Matthew Lamb Professor of Catholic Theology Ave Maria University \"Displaying his immense scholarly erudition and teacherly affection, Dr. Pecknold shows how the theme of sacrifice unifies Augustine's Confessions. Leaving behind our individualist, subjective, and nominalist modern assumptions, Pecknold's Fire on the Altar leads the reader into Augustine's communal, objective, metaphysical, and ultimately liturgical understanding of the human person.\" Mike Aquilina, Author of Saint Augustine in the Fathers of the Faith series \"How can I recommend this book highly enough? It's a guide to my favorite text from the Fathers by my favorite scholar of Augustine. Like the Confessions, Fire on the Altar will illuminate a Christian life at any time, in any place.\" Bishop Robert Reed, Auxiliary Bishop, Archdiocese of Boston, The CatholicTV Network \"Pecknold's refreshing thesis rises from the restlessness and longing we all have within ourselves, and it helps us to arrive at Augustine's properly liturgical conclusion. The joy and grace of a good confession and our participation in the Holy Sacrifice set our restless hearts ablaze to be who God made us to be: partakers of Christ's Body.\" Return to the Heart: The Biblical Spirituality of St. Augustine's Confessions Catholics in Exile: Biblical Wisdom for the Journey Home (English and English... The Confessions of Saint Augustine: A Latin Reader’s Edition Books I-IX The Confessions (Latin-English Edition) Add to Cart Add to Cart Add to Cart Add to Cart Customer Reviews 26 107 — 8 Price $16 86 $24 95 $19 95 $59 95 Topic Augustine Spirituality Faith no data\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Emmaus Road Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48134151667897,"sku":"164585485X","price":31.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0793\/7871\/0713\/files\/9781645854852-right-three-quarter.jpg?v=1784859922","url":"https:\/\/www.bestbuybook.com\/products\/fire-on-the-altar-setting-our-souls-ablaze-through-st-augustines-confessions-by-c-c-pecknold","provider":"BestBuyBook","version":"1.0","type":"link"}