Franzen, Jonathan, 63, 106, 163
Gnosticism, 156
González, Justo, 47, 53, 79, 110, 233n13
Good Will Hunting (film), 133–34
Gozzoli, Bennozo, 9, 105, 166–67, 219
Hannan, Sean, 51–52
Heidegger, Martin, xiii, 20, 26–32, 41–42, 44, 48, 61–62, 92, 94, 109, 120–26, 129, 130–31, 134–35, 144–45, 180, 210–11
Hodler, Ferdinand, 25
Homer, 193
Honoratus, 147–49
Hopkins, Gerard Manley, 172
idolatry, 81–82, 90, 99, 214
incarnation, 15, 105, 117, 156–57, 186, 200–202
Infinite Jest (novel), xii
intersubjectivity, 121–23, 134
Isbell, Jason, 15–16
Jamison, Leslie, xii, 66, 73–75, 96, 137, 158–59, 202
Jaspers, Karl, 20, 30
John Paul II (pope), 219
joy, 4, 5, 10, 38–40, 46–49, 82, 86, 90, 100, 161, 183, 209, 232n6. See also enjoyment
Karr, Mary, 116, 138
Keegan, Marina, 129–30
Kerouac, Jack, xi, 4, 173, 194
Lady Bird (film), 75–76
Lady Continence, 100–101
lament, 33, 183–85, 187, 210
Lars and the Real Girl (film), 136
liberal arts, the, 9, 142
Life Aquatic (film), 197
Life of Antony, 88, 132, 166
Lodge 49 (TV series), 205
loneliness, 3, 25, 97, 123–30, 137, 177
Macedonius, 189, 190
Madauros, 2, 79, 95
Malick, Terence, 28, 179–80
Manicheans, 110, 146–50, 153, 180
Mann, Sally, xiii
Marcel, Gabriel, 20, 76, 123–24
Marion, Jean-Luc, 18, 34, 161–62
marriage, 86, 94, 101–4, 196, 200, 233n30
McCourt, Frank, 171
memoir, 159, 161–62
menopause, 103
mestizo, 47
#MeToo, 103–4
Milan, 2, 7–10, 12, 46, 50, 64, 73, 79, 85–86, 104–5, 110, 118, 147, 150–51, 169, 172, 180, 203, 207, 217–18, 223, 226, 227n13
Monica, 9, 21–24, 79–80, 104–5, 109–118, 201, 215, 218, 219, 226
Montaigne, Michel de, 35, 162, 228n28, 235n9
Moriarty, Dean, xi, 4, 195
Murillo, Bartolomé Esteban, 176
Neoplatonism, 32, 154, 156
new atheists, 147, 177
Niebuhr, Reinhold, 191
Nietzsche, Friedrich, 32, 107
O’Brien, Conor Cruise, 33, 229n21
Odyssey, The, 38, 237n1
On the Road (novel), xi, 4–6, 54–55, 59, 173, 194–95, 222
Osteen, Joel, 52, 228n25
Ostia, 9, 24, 113, 118, 217–18, 226
Owen, John, 188
Paradise, Sal, xi, 4, 6, 194, 222
Paris, 20, 34, 38, 42, 92, 107–8, 199
Pascal, Blaise, 25, 31, 90, 228n2
Patrick (Augustine’s father), 68, 79, 110, 113, 198, 201
Pavia, 218
Pelagianism, 71, 156
Percy, Walker, 28
Platonism, 49, 131, 154–56, 172
Plotinus, 154, 156, 166
poetry, 170–73
Ponticianus, 87, 132, 166
Portlandia (TV series), 145
relics, 113, 176, 207, 209, 218–19, 237n5
Romantica, 187–88
Rome, 2, 7–10, 12, 46, 62, 78, 94, 104–5, 110, 112–13, 131, 147, 226
Route 66, 22, 23, 60
Royal Tenenbaums, The (film), 196–97
Rule of Augustine, 140–41
sacraments, 73, 219
San Gimignano, 8–9, 105, 167, 226
Santa Monica, 21–24, 34, 108, 228n3
Sapida, 215–16
Sartre, Jean-Paul, 20–21, 28, 32, 42, 61, 76, 122–24, 127, 229n16
Schlappig, Ben, 83–85
scientism, 147, 149, 177
Shteyngart, Gary, 206–7
Simplicianus, 113, 131–32, 166, 219, 235n4
Sisyphus, 32, 38–40, 48, 64, 210
skepticism, 50, 111, 150, 152, 180
Springsteen, Bruce, 193
Stegner, Wallace, 80
Stock, Brian, 167–68
Succession (TV series), 98–99
Super Sad True Love Story (novel), 206–7
Taylor, Charles, 129, 143, 232n17
Thagaste, 2, 9, 46, 52, 86, 114, 118, 139, 212
Thin Red Line (film), 179–80, 183–84
they, the (das Man), 28, 30, 61
thrownness, 30, 33
Unheimlich, 5, 8, 41, 44, 50, 213
Up in the Air (film), 5–6
use. See enjoyment
Victorinus, 131–32, 166, 173, 235n4
Villanova University, 27, 29, 93–94, 224, 228n8
Virgil, 10, 166
Weigel, George, 209
Wilde, Oscar, 164–67, 228n28
Wiley, Kehinde, 175–76
witness authority, 159–60, 235n4
Wolfe, Suzanne, 232n29, 233n7
Wolfe, Thomas, 38, 195
Wright, Franz, 128–29
Wright, Thomas, 164–65
Zweig, Stefan, 43–47, 52–53
Table of Contents
Cover
Half Title Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Epigraph
Contents
Introduction
Orientation Heart on the Run
Augustine Our Contemporary
A Refugee Spirituality
Detours on the Way to Myself Freedom: How to Escape
Ambition: How to Aspire
Sex: How to Connect
Mothers: How to Be Dependent
Friendship: How to Belong
Enlightenment : How to Believe
Story: How to Be a Character
Justice : How to Protest
Fathers: How to Be Broken
Death: How to Hope
Homecoming
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
Photo Insert
Cover Flaps
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