18 Best christian books like On the Ecclesiastical Mystagogy (Popular Patristics Series Volume 59) by Maximus the Confessor

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On the Ecclesiastical Mystagogy (Popular Patristics Series Volume 59)

By: Maximus the Confessor

4.49

Format: 104 pages, Paperback

St Maximus the Confessor (c. 580-662) beautifully expounds the meaning of the Divine Liturgy in On …

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1. Leaf by Niggle

By: J.R.R. Tolkien

4.26

Format: 22 pages, ebook

Leaf by Niggle is a short story about a painter who is working on a picture leaf by leaf. Niggle, t… read more

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  • christian
"Feeria è meglio della sensazione che non ci sia niente al di là dell'usato mondo di tutti i giorni"

-J.R.R. Tolkien, Leaf by Niggle

"He was going to learn about sheep, and the high pasturages, and look at a wider sky, and walk ever further and further towards the Mountains, always uphill. Beyond that I cannot guess what became of …"

-J.R.R. Tolkien, Leaf by Niggle

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2. City of God

By: Augustine of Hippo , Henry Bettenson

3.93

Format: 1186 pages, Paperback

No book except the Bible itself had a greater influence on the Middle Ages than Augustine's City of… read more

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  • christianity
  • christian
  • nonfiction
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"There are wolves within, and there are sheep without."

-Augustine of Hippo, City of God

"A wholesome fear would be a fit guardian for the citizens."

-Augustine of Hippo, City of God

"Humility raises us not by human arrogance but by divine grace."

-Augustine of Hippo, City of God

"He that becomes protector of sin shall surely become its prisoner."

-Augustine of Hippo, City of God

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3. That Hideous Strength (Space Trilogy, #3)

By: C.S. Lewis

3.81

Format: 4 pages, Paperback

Written during the dark hours immediately before and during the Second World War, C. S. Lewis's Spa… read more

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  • christian
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4. Till We Have Faces

By: C.S. Lewis

4.08

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

In this timeless tale of two mortal princesses- one beautiful and one unattractive- C.S. Lewis rewo… read more

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  • christian
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5. Confessions

By: Augustine of Hippo , Henry Chadwick , Albert Cook Outler

3.41

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Augustine's Confessions is one of the most influential and most innovative works of Latin literatur… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • theology
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6. An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith

By: John of Damascus

4.01

Format: 30 pages,

A polymath whose fields of interest and contribution included law, theology, philosophy, and music,… read more

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  • christianity
  • christian
  • theology
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7. The Story of Christianity: Volume 1: The Early Church to the Reformation

By: Justo L. González

4.00

Format: 371 pages, Paperback

Sheds light on the major cultural and theological currents shaping the church during this period. read more

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  • christian
  • nonfiction
  • theology
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8. John Climacus: The Ladder of Divine Ascent

By: Norman Russell , John Climacus

3.20

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

John Climacus (c. 579-649) was abbot of the monastery of Catherine on Mount Sinai. His Ladder was t… read more

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  • theology
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9. Way of the Ascetics: The Ancient Tradition of Discipline and Inner Growth

By: Tito Colliander , None

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Written for lay persons living in the world, this is an excellent resource for daily meditation, sp… read more

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  • christianity
  • christian
  • nonfiction

10. Cosmic Liturgy: The Universe According to Maximus the Confessor

By: Hans Urs von Balthasar

3.72

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Maximus the Confessor, saint and martyr, is the theologian of synthesis: of Rome and Byzantium, of … read more

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11. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, and Sir Orfeo

By: J.R.R. Tolkien , Unknown , Christopher Tolkien

3.76

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Sir Gawain and the Green Knightand Pearlare two poems by an unknown author written in about 1400. S… read more

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12. The Life of St. Anthony

By: E.A. Wallis Budge , Athanasius of Alexandria

3.98

Format: 212 pages,

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13. The Bible and the Liturgy

By: Jean Daniélou

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

To a deplorable extent, Christians accept Church rituals as sacred but baffling heirlooms from the … read more

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14. The Nicomachean Ethics

By: Aristotle , Jonathan Barnes , None , Hugh Tredennick

3.99

Format: 329 pages, Paperback

‘One swallow does not make a summer; neither does one day. Similarly neither can one day, or a brie… read more

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"Philosophy can make people sick."

-Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics

"A man without regrets cannot be cured."

-Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics

"Freedom is obedience to self-formulated rules."

-Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics

"The beginning seems to be more than half of the whole."

-Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics

15. Heavenly Participation: The Weaving of a Sacramental Tapestry

By: Hans Boersma

3.58

Format: 376 pages, Paperback

Surveying the barriers that contemporary thinking has erected between the natural and the supernatu… read more

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16. Maximus the Confessor

By: Maximus the Confessor , Andrew Louth

3.36

Format: None pages, Paperback

St Maximus the Confessor, the greatest of Byzantine theologians, lived through the most catastrophi… read more

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17. Ecclesiastical History of the English People

By: Bede , Ronald E. Latham , None , Leo Sherley-Price

3.95

Format: 253 pages, Paperback

Written in AD 731, Bede's work opens with a background sketch of Roman Britain's geography and hist… read more

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18. Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer

By: C.S. Lewis

4.31

Format: 66 pages, Paperback

"We want to know not how we should pray if we were perfect but how we should pray being as we now a… read more

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19. The Bruised Reed

By: Richard Sibbes

4.44

Format: 134 pages, Paperback

In this famous exposition of Isaiah 42:3, Sibbes unfolds the tender ministry of Jesus Christ, who i… read more

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  • christian
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"Weakness with watchfulness will stand, when strength with too much confidence fails. Weakness, with acknowledgement of it, is the fittest seat and subject for God to perfect his strength in; for cons…"

-Richard Sibbes, The Bruised Reed

"Moses, without any mercy, breaks all bruised reeds, and quenches all smoking flax. For the law requires personal, perpetual and perfect obedience from the heart, and that under a most terrible curse,…"

-Richard Sibbes, The Bruised Reed

20. The Rule of Saint Benedict

By: Benedict of Nursia , None

3.22

Format: 111 pages, Paperback

Composed nearly fifteen hundred years ago by the father of Western monasticism, The Rule of St. Ben… read more

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21. On the Apostolic Preaching

By: Irenaeus of Lyons

3.88

Format: 373 pages, Paperback

St Irenaeus is the most important theologian of the second century, laying the foundation for all f… read more

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22. Republocrat, Confessions of a Liberal Conservative

By: Carl R. Trueman

4.00

Format: 204 pages, Paperback

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23. The Four Loves

By: C.S. Lewis

4.17

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

A repackaged edition of the revered author's classic work that examines the four types of human lov… read more

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"All that is not eternal is eternally out of date."

-C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

"To know that one is dreaming is to be no longer perfectly asleep."

-C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

"El amor empieza a ser un demonio desde el momento en que comienza a ser un dios."

-C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

"People who bore one another should meet seldom; people who interest one another, often."

-C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

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24. Religion of the Apostles: Orthodox Christianity in the First Century

By: Stephen De Young

4.53

Format: 310 pages, Kindle Edition

Rev. Dr. Stephen De Young, creator of the popular The Whole Counsel of God blog and podcast, traces… read more

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25. The Lord of Spirits: An Orthodox Christian Framework for the Unseen World and Spiritual Warfare

By: Andrew Stephen Damick

4.61

Format: 266 pages, Paperback

The modern world doesn't acknowledge but is nevertheless haunted by spirits-angels, demons, and sai… read more

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26. Why God Makes Sense in a World That Doesn't: The Beauty of Christian Theism

By: Gavin Ortlund

4.51

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

It has never been more important to articulate the wonder and enchantment of the Christian message.… read more

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"That day I came across several of the so-called new atheist books: Richard Dawkins’s The God Delusion, Christopher Hitchens’s God Is Not Great, and Sam Harris’s The End of Faith. I vividly remember t…"

-Gavin Ortlund, Why God Makes Sense in a World That Doesn't: The Beauty of Christian Theism

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27. The Catechetical Lectures of St. Cyril of Jerusalem

By: Cyril of Jerusalem

4.33

Format: 347 pages, Kindle Edition

The famous Catechetical Lectures of Cyril, archbishop of Jerusalem, are a series of 23 addresses St… read more

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28. On the Ecclesiastical Mystagogy (Popular Patristics Series Volume 59)

By: Maximus the Confessor

4.49

Format: 104 pages, Paperback

St Maximus the Confessor (c. 580-662) beautifully expounds the meaning of the Divine Liturgy in On … read more

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  • theology
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29. Catechetical Discourse: A Handbook for Catechists

By: Gregory of Nyssa

4.24

Format: 171 pages, Paperback

St Gregory of Nyssa wrote the Catechetical Discourse as a handbook for his catechists, to help them… read more

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30. Historical Theology for the Church

By: Jason G. Duesing

4.06

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

In Historical Theology for the Church , editors Jason Duesing and Nathan Finn bring together top co… read more

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31. Imperial Unity And Christian Divisions: The Church from 450-680 A.D.

By: John Meyendorff

4.20

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Includes 30 photos and index. Almost without exception, the histories of the Church available in pr… read more

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13 Top nonfiction books like On the Ecclesiastical Mystagogy (Popular Patristics Series Volume 59) by Maximus the Confessor

Transform Your Habits

City of God

Augustine of Hippo , Henry Bettenson

3.93

Transform Your Habits

Confessions

Augustine of Hippo , Henry Chadwick , Albert Cook Outler

3.41

Transform Your Habits

The Story of Christianity: Volume 1: The Early Church to the Reformation

Justo L. González

4.00

Transform Your Habits

John Climacus: The Ladder of Divine Ascent

Norman Russell , John Climacus

3.20

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13 Best religion books like The Catechetical Lectures of St. Cyril of Jerusalem by Cyril of Jerusalem

Transform Your Habits

God's Revelation to the Human Heart

Seraphim Rose

3.63

Transform Your Habits

The Didache

Anonymous

3.00

Transform Your Habits

Confessions

Augustine of Hippo , Henry Chadwick , Albert Cook Outler

3.41

Transform Your Habits

An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith

John of Damascus

4.01

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