Dr Mark J. Boone (PhD, Philosophy, Baylor University) is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Forman Christian College. He is also an occasional book reviewer, a blog writer and the author of several articles on philosophy and religion.

In this age when 'desire' is defined in ways that are destructive to souls and families, we could hardly do better than to retrieve understandings of the word from Augustine, perhaps the greatest Christian thinker ever. Dr. Boone's fine study is both historically rich and eminently timely.

• Foreword by Michael P. FoleyAcknowledgmentsAbbreviations1 Augustine at Cassiciacum2 Desiring Wisdom3 Desiring and Having God4 The Desire to Know Order and to Be Ordered5 Desiring God and the Soul6 The Love of God and Human BeingsBibliography

Dr Mark J. Boone (PhD, Philosophy, Baylor University) is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Forman Christian College. He is also an occasional book reviewer, a blog writer and the author of several articles on philosophy and religion.

In this age when 'desire' is defined in ways that are destructive to souls and families, we could hardly do better than to retrieve understandings of the word from Augustine, perhaps the greatest Christian thinker ever. Dr. Boone's fine study is both historically rich and eminently timely.

• Foreword by Michael P. FoleyAcknowledgmentsAbbreviations1 Augustine at Cassiciacum2 Desiring Wisdom3 Desiring and Having God4 The Desire to Know Order and to Be Ordered5 Desiring God and the Soul6 The Love of God and Human BeingsBibliography

Dr Mark J. Boone (PhD, Philosophy, Baylor University) is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Forman Christian College. He is also an occasional book reviewer, a blog writer and the author of several articles on philosophy and religion.

In this age when 'desire' is defined in ways that are destructive to souls and families, we could hardly do better than to retrieve understandings of the word from Augustine, perhaps the greatest Christian thinker ever. Dr. Boone's fine study is both historically rich and eminently timely.

• Foreword by Michael P. FoleyAcknowledgmentsAbbreviations1 Augustine at Cassiciacum2 Desiring Wisdom3 Desiring and Having God4 The Desire to Know Order and to Be Ordered5 Desiring God and the Soul6 The Love of God and Human BeingsBibliography