FORMED Book Club

What‘ll heaven really be like? Our final discussion of Saint Augustine‘s masterpiece: “The City of God”.

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“O Beauty ever ancient, ever new...” This week, Fr. Fessio, Joseph Pearce, and Vivian Dudro reflect with St. Augustine on the nature of beauty in this world: light mixed with shadow, good pierced by evil.

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The difference between miracles and magic.  Father Joseph Fessio, Vivian Dudro, and Joseph Pearce continue their reading of Augustine's "The City of God," as anthologized by Hans Urs von Balthasar.

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A crash course in the history of Rome with Saint Augustine. We soldier on through “The City of God,” as anthologized by Hans Urs von Balthasar.

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The Old Testament lies hidden in the New, and the New Testament reveals the Old. Reflections on salvation history with Saint Augustine as we continue our reading of “The City of God” (as anthologized by Hans Urs von Balthasar).

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Is happiness possible in a messed-up world? This and more as Father Fessio, Joseph Pearce, and Vivian Dudro discuss Augustine’s “The City of God,” as anthologized by Hans Urs von Balthasar.

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Doesn’t Augustine think that the body is evil? Isn’t he kind of a pessimist? This and more as we discuss the saint’s masterpiece “The City of God,” as anthologized by Hans Urs von Balthasar.

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Can we ever have heaven on earth—a world of saints?  St. Augustine has answers.  Joseph Pearce, Vivian Dudro, and Joseph Fessio, S.J., discuss the saint’s masterpiece “The City of God”, as anthologized by Hans Urs von Balthasar.

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Why Saint Augustine’s “The City of God” can change your life.  We begin our journey through Hans Urs von Balthasar’s “readable” edition of the ancient masterpiece:  Introduction and Chapter One, “The Meaning of Creation.”

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The twentieth century, from Ralph Vaughan-Williams to George Gershwin to David Bowie. Tastes diverge. Listen to Fr. Fessio, Vivian Dudro, and Joseph Pearce debate the beauty and ugliness of modern music in our last discussion of Susan Treacy’s “The Music of Christendom.”

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