The Heart Set Free: Sin and Redemption in the Gospels, Augustine, Dante, and Flannery O'Connor

by Kim Paffenroth

This work examines four of the greatest theological and literary minds of the Christian tradition - Jesus, Augustine, Dante, and Flannery O'Connor - in a way that makes their prophetic and poetic challenge to our sinfulness accessible and relevant to the modern Christian. These thinkers offer timeless criticisms of four of the greatest and most flawed societies of all time - Israel, Rome, Medieval Europe, and America - and they do so in a way that...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826416136
• ISBN13: 9780826416131
• Release Date: May 2005
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.3" x 8.9"