True Fire: Saint Augustine in an Age of Crisis

'What is true and how should we live?' These were the great questions of Augustine's life.

He examined cosmology, nature, philosophy, literature, history, science and the Bible and left a breathtaking 5.4 million words behind him in works such as The Confessions and City of God. Told through the four places that were important to Augustine - Milan, Cassiciacum, Ostia and Hippo - True Fire charts his inner development and how the rapid changes in his world shaped his thought: from his doctrine of Original Sin and how that changed Western self-perception to the way he transformed Catholicism and the Church.

Augustine gave us new ways to imagine our inner selves. His attitude to sex and the body, his new conception of God as beyond our comprehension and his insights on time still influence the way we live over 1500 years later. We continue to seek out his wisdom and insights into human restlessness and change. True Fire transports us to his world as he faces an age of crisis: Rome's collapse. Augustine's answers to that cataclysm speaks to a future that is almost upon us. He lived through an age of crisis, Rome's collapse. Augustine's answers to that cataclysm are both inspirational and urgent in the twenty-first century.