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The Works of Aurelius Augustine: Writings in connection with the Manichaean heresy, translated by Richard Stothert. 1872
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Include books by the same authorThe Enchiridion on Faith Hope and Love (Augustine Series 1)
Augustine of Hippo, Bruce Harbert · 144 pages
Mere Christianity and The Screwtape Letters
C.S. Lewis · 449 pages
On the Incarnation
Athanasius of Alexandria · 120 pages
The Zen Teaching of Huang Po: On the Transmission of Mind
Huang Po · 144 pages
The Varieties of Religious Experience
William James · 470 pages
This is one of the most remarkable books ever written about religious experience. James captures the reader’s attention with vivid instances of religious experience collected from diverse sources, including classical religious texts, newspaper articles, and clinical studies. In this collection of Gifford lectures given in Scotland in 1901, James analyzes religious experience, using wonderful examp
Orthodoxy
G.K. Chesterton · 156 pages
Orthodoxy is G. K. Chesterton’s response to his critics’ assertion that his earlier collection of essays, Heretics, had “merely criticised current philosophies without offering any alternative philosophy.” In his intellectual journey from pagan to agnostic to positivist philosopher, he had attempted to build a philosophy “some ten minutes in advance of the truth.” But when he compared his modern p
Institutes of the Christian Religion, 2 Vols
John Calvin · 1,800 pages
The Imitation of Christ
Thomas a Kempis · 236 pages
With the exception of the Bible, no Christian writing has had so wide a vogue or so sustained a popularity as this. And yet, in one sense, it is hardly an original work at all. Its structure it owes largely to the writings of the medieval mystics, and its ideas and phrases are a mosaic from the Bible and the Fathers of the early Church. But these elements are interwoven with such delicate skill an
On Christian Doctrine
Augustine of Hippo · 1,278 pages
Bhagavad Gita
Barbara Stoler Miller, Anonymous
New Seeds of Contemplation
Thomas Merton · 297 pages
One of the best-loved books by one of the great spiritual authors of our time, with a new introduction by best-selling author Sue Monk Kidd.New Seeds of ContemplationThe Cloud of Unknowing seeks to awaken the dormant inner depths of the spirit so long neglected by Western man, to nurture a deeply contemplative and mystical dimension in our lives. For Merton, "Every moment and every event of every
Bhagavad-Gita As It Is
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada · 799 pages
The Platform Sutra: The Zen Teaching of Hui-neng
Hui-Neng · 346 pages
The Gateless Gate: The Classic Book of Zen Koans
Wumen Huikai · 288 pages
The Diamond Sutra and the Sutra of Hui-Neng
Hui-Neng, W.Y. Evans-Wentz, Christmas Humphreys · 168 pages
The Bondage of the Will
Martin Luther · 328 pages
The Bondage of the Will is fundamental to an understanding of the primary doctrines of the Reformation. In these pages, Luther gives extensive treatment to what he saw as the heart of the gospel. Free will was no academic question to Luther; the whole gospel of the grace of God, he believed, was bound up with it and stood or fell according to the way one decided it. Luther affirms our total inabil
The Way of the Bodhisattva: A Translation of the Bodhicharyavatara
Santideva · 224 pages
The Religious Affections
Jonathan Edwards · 384 pages
The Elementary Forms of Religious Life
Emile Durkheim · 416 pages
A Confession and Other Religious Writings
Leo Tolstoy · 238 pages
The Hero With a Thousand Faces
Joseph Campbell · 456 pages
A thoroughly intense and all-embracing read. In the 2-page preface written in 1948, he states such ground-shakingly obvious facts about the human psyche, that you'll wonder why these ideas had never dawned on you before. Then, into the main text of the book, and you're spirited away into an adventure that explores all forms of mythology and their importance in founding different cultures all aroun
The Sabbath: Its Meaning for Modern Man
Abraham Joshua Heschel · 126 pages