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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorThe 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
The Way of the Bodhisattva: A Translation of the Bodhicharyavatara
Santideva · 224 pages
The Rule of St. Benedict
Benedict of Nursia · 160 pages
The defining guide to daily prayer and work for Benedictine communities for fifteen centuries sets out ideal monastery routines and regulations, from kitchen duties and care of the sick, to the qualities of a good abbot and the value of silence.
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
Mere Christianity
C.S. Lewis · 190 pages
First broadcast as informal radio "talks" and later published as three separate books, The Case for Christianity, Christian Behaviour, and Beyond Personality are presented together in Mere Christianity. In his remarkably direct and accessible style, the renowned Christian apologist shows how the power of Christianity manifests itself -- not in any single denomination but as "mere" Christianity, a
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
Revelations of Divine Love
Julian of Norwich · 208 pages
The Book of Margery Kempe
Margery Kempe · 343 pages
"Margery Kempe's autobiography engages the modern reader with its richly textured images of late-medieval England - its town life, customs, means of travel, dress, food, and, most notably, its observations of the religious rituals that prevailed in the author's lifetime (ca. 1373-ca. 1440). Lynn Staley's new translation does not modernize; rather, it stays as close to the original Middle English a
The Autobiography of St. Teresa Of Avila: The Life of St. Teresa of Jesus
Teresa of Avila, Benedict Zimmerman, David Lewis · 516 pages
The Enchiridion on Faith Hope and Love (Augustine Series 1)
Augustine of Hippo, Bruce Harbert · 144 pages
Pensées
Blaise Pascal · 322 pages
"Blaise Pascal, the precociously brilliant contemporary of Descartes, was a gifted mathematician and physicist, but it is his unfinished apologia for the Christian religion upon which his reputation now rests. The Pensees is a collection of philosophical fragments, notes and essays in which he explores the contradictions of human nature in psychological, social, metaphysical and, above all, theolo
Early Christian Writings: The Apostolic Fathers
Andrew Louth · 208 pages
The writings in this volume shed a glimmer of light, in an otherwise dark period, on the emerging traditions and organizations of the infant Church. They are a selection from a group known as the Apostolic Fathers, so-called because several of the authors were most likely disciples of the Apostles themselves. Like much of the New Testament, their writings take the form of letters, and for the most
A Confession
Leo Tolstoy · 95 pages
Leo Tolstoy wrote this short meditation on sadness and the meaning of life when he was middle aged. He had already completed his masterworks, Anna Karenina and War and Peace , reared fourteen children, and gained fame and acclaim in Russia as a man of letters. But despite having attained that success, he still found himself unhappy and always returning to the disturbing idea that all achievement i
Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners
John Bunyan · 155 pages
Fear and Trembling and The Sickness Unto Death
Soren Kierkegaard · 349 pages
Story of a Soul: The Autobiography of St. Therese of Lisieux
Therese de Lisieux · 394 pages
On the Incarnation
Athanasius of Alexandria · 120 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 Works of Aurelius Augustine: Writings in connection with the Manichaean heresy, translated by Richard Stothert. 1872
Saint Augustine (of Hippo) · 606 pages