7 Best theology books like Confessions of a Heretic by Roger Scruton

Cover of Confessions of a Heretic by Roger Scruton

Confessions of a Heretic

By: Roger Scruton

4.28

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

A collection of provocative essays by the influential social commentator, Roger Scruton. Scruton ex…

If you liked the theology plot in Confessions of a Heretic by Roger Scruton , here is a list of 7 books like this:

Cover of The Glass Bees by Louise Bogan, Bruce Sterling, Ernst Jünger, Elizabeth Mayer

1. The Glass Bees

By: Louise Bogan , Bruce Sterling , Ernst Jünger , Elizabeth Mayer

3.69

Format: 209 pages, Paperback

In The Glass Bees the celebrated German writer Ernst Jünger presents a disconcerting vision of the … read more

Similar categories in Louise Bogan's The Glass Bees book and Roger Scruton's Confessions of a Heretic

  • literature
  • philosophy
"Every master has the servant he deserves."

-Louise Bogan, The Glass Bees

"A great physicist is always a metaphysicist as well; he has a higher concept of his knowledge and his task."

-Louise Bogan, The Glass Bees

"Unfortunately robots capable of manufacturing robots do not exist. That would be the philosopher's stone, the squaring of the circle."

-Louise Bogan, The Glass Bees

"We do not escape our boundaries or our innermost being. We do not change. It is true we may be transformed, but we always walk within our boundaries, within the marked-off circle."

-Louise Bogan, The Glass Bees

Cover of A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories by Flannery O'Connor

2. A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories

By: Flannery O'Connor

4.17

Format: 252 pages, Hardcover

This now classic book revealed Flannery O'Connor as one of the most original and provocative writer… read more

Similar categories in Flannery O'Connor's A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories book and Roger Scruton's Confessions of a Heretic

  • literature
"The trouble with the world was that nobody stopped or took any care."

-Flannery O'Connor, A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories

"He had a look of composed dissatisfaction, as if he understood life thoroughly."

-Flannery O'Connor, A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories

"The thing you do with a boy it is to show him all the to show. Don't hold nothing back."

-Flannery O'Connor, A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories

"We're all damned," she said, “but some of us have taken off our blindfolds and see that there’s nothing to see. It’s a kind of salvation."

-Flannery O'Connor, A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories

Cover of On the Marble Cliffs by Stuart Hood, George Steiner, Ernst Jünger

3. On the Marble Cliffs

By: Stuart Hood , George Steiner , Ernst Jünger

3.80

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

The peaceful and traditional people, located on the shores of a large bay, are surrounded by the ro… read more

Similar categories in Stuart Hood's On the Marble Cliffs book and Roger Scruton's Confessions of a Heretic

  • literature
  • philosophy
"The downfall of order brings good to none."

-Stuart Hood, On the Marble Cliffs

"Such are the cellars over which the proud castles of tyranny rise and above which the aromas of their feast swirl: putrid caves of a gruesome kind in which the depraved rabble regales itself with the…"

-Stuart Hood, On the Marble Cliffs

"We cannot count on seeing our work completed here below, and happy is the man whose will is not too painfully invested in his efforts. No house is built, no plan created, in which ruin is not the cor…"

-Stuart Hood, On the Marble Cliffs

"I had often doubted; now I was convinced: there were still noble beings among us in whose hearts knowledge of the higher order was preserved and perpetuated. A lofty example enjoins us to follow, and…"

-Stuart Hood, On the Marble Cliffs

Cover of Officers and Gentlemen (Sword of Honour, #2) by Evelyn Waugh

4. Officers and Gentlemen (Sword of Honour, #2)

By: Evelyn Waugh

3.95

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Fueled by idealism and eagerness to contribute to the war effort, Guy Crouchback becomes attached t… read more

Similar categories in Evelyn Waugh's Officers and Gentlemen (Sword of Honour, #2) book and Roger Scruton's Confessions of a Heretic

  • literature
Cover of The Imitation of Christ by Thomas à Kempis, William Benham, Richard Challoner, D.D.

5. The Imitation of Christ

By: Thomas à Kempis , William Benham , Richard Challoner, D.D.

4.32

Format: 632 pages, Paperback

Only the Bible has been more influential as a source of Christian devotional reading than The Imita… read more

Similar categories in Thomas à Kempis's The Imitation of Christ book and Roger Scruton's Confessions of a Heretic

  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • theology
Cover of Storm of Steel by Michael Hofmann, Ernst Jünger

6. Storm of Steel

By: Michael Hofmann , Ernst Jünger

3.50

Format: 250 pages, Paperback

A memoir of astonishing power, savagery, and ashen lyricism, 'Storm of Steel' illuminates not only … read more

Similar categories in Michael Hofmann's Storm of Steel book and Roger Scruton's Confessions of a Heretic

  • nonfiction
Cover of About a Boy by Nick Hornby, Udo Wachtveitl

7. About a Boy

By: Nick Hornby , Udo Wachtveitl

3.69

Format: 143 pages, Mass Market Paperback

'How cool was Will Freeman?' Too cool! At thirty-six, he's as hip as a teenager. He's single, child… read more

Similar categories in Nick Hornby's About a Boy book and Roger Scruton's Confessions of a Heretic

Cover of What Is Marriage?: Man and Woman: A Defense by Robert P. George, Sherif Girgis, Ryan T. Anderson, Ryan T Anderson, Robert P George

8. What Is Marriage?: Man and Woman: A Defense

By: Robert P. George , Sherif Girgis , Ryan T. Anderson , Ryan T Anderson , Robert P George

3.41

Format: 94 pages, Paperback

Until yesterday, no society had seen marriage as anything other than a conjugal partnership: a male… read more

Similar categories in Robert P. George's What Is Marriage?: Man and Woman: A Defense book and Roger Scruton's Confessions of a Heretic

  • cultural
  • theology
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • religion
  • nonfiction
Cover of Hadji Murad by Leo Tolstoy

9. Hadji Murad

By: Leo Tolstoy

4.11

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

In 1851 Leo Tolstoy enlisted in the Russian army and was sent to the Caucasus to help defeat the Ch… read more

Similar categories in Leo Tolstoy's Hadji Murad book and Roger Scruton's Confessions of a Heretic

  • literature
Cover of Redwall (Redwall, #1) by Brian Jacques

10. Redwall (Redwall, #1)

By: Brian Jacques

4.14

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

A quest to recover a legendary lost weapon by bumbling young apprentice monk, mouse Matthias. R… read more

Similar categories in Brian Jacques's Redwall (Redwall, #1) book and Roger Scruton's Confessions of a Heretic

"I am that is, my sword shall wield for me."

-Brian Jacques, Redwall (Redwall, #1)

"All work and no play makes Matthias a dull mouse."

-Brian Jacques, Redwall (Redwall, #1)

"Err, sorry Father Abbot. I tripped y'see. Trod on my Abbot, Father Habit. Oh dear, I mean...."

-Brian Jacques, Redwall (Redwall, #1)

"Who knows, my friend? Maybe the sword does have some magic. Personally, I think it's the warrior who wields it."

-Brian Jacques, Redwall (Redwall, #1)

Cover of Orthodoxy by G.K. Chesterton

11. Orthodoxy

By: G.K. Chesterton

4.11

Format: 528 pages, Paperback

Chesterton (The Man Who Knew Too Much) capped his brilliant literary career with this exploration o… read more

Similar categories in G.K. Chesterton's Orthodoxy book and Roger Scruton's Confessions of a Heretic

  • philosophy
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • theology
Cover of The Swimmer by John Cheever

12. The Swimmer

By: John Cheever

3.56

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Neddy Merrill decides to swim home from a friend's pool party, traveling from fashionable swimming … read more

Similar categories in John Cheever's The Swimmer book and Roger Scruton's Confessions of a Heretic

  • literature
Cover of Prometheus Bound by Aeschylus, None, James Scully, C. John Herington

13. Prometheus Bound

By: Aeschylus , None , James Scully , C. John Herington

3.13

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Featuring an insightful introduction, comprehensive commentary on plot, characters, structure, and … read more

Similar categories in Aeschylus's Prometheus Bound book and Roger Scruton's Confessions of a Heretic

  • literature
Cover of The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers

14. The Power of Myth

By: Joseph Campbell , Bill Moyers

4.26

Format: 293 pages, Paperback

The Power Of Myth launched an extraordinary resurgence of interest in Joseph Campbell and his work.… read more

Similar categories in Joseph Campbell's The Power of Myth book and Roger Scruton's Confessions of a Heretic

  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
"Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy."

-Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth

"Follow your bliss and doors will open where there were no doors before."

-Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth

"Lo que el creativo saca a la luz es algo que estaba esperando ser extraído en todos."

-Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth

"Poets are simply those who have made a profession ans a lifestyle of being in touch with their bliss."

-Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth

15. Metro 2034 (Metro #2)

By: Dmitry Glukhovsky , M. David Drevs

3.67

Format: 117 pages, Paperback

read more

Similar categories in Dmitry Glukhovsky's Metro 2034 (Metro #2) book and Roger Scruton's Confessions of a Heretic

16. Wittgenstein: A Very Short Introduction

By: A.C. Grayling

3.89

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) was an extraordinarily original thinker, whose influence on twentie… read more

Similar categories in A.C. Grayling's Wittgenstein: A Very Short Introduction book and Roger Scruton's Confessions of a Heretic

17. Men at Arms

By: Evelyn Waugh

2.83

Format: None pages, Paperback

Guy Crouchback, determined to get into the war, takes a commission in the Royal Corps of Halberdier… read more

Similar categories in Evelyn Waugh's Men at Arms book and Roger Scruton's Confessions of a Heretic

Cover of Soumission by Michel Houellebecq

18. Soumission

By: Michel Houellebecq

3.65

Format: 300 pages, Paperback

Dans une France assez proche de la nôtre, un homme s’engage dans la carrière universitaire. Peu mot… read more

Similar categories in Michel Houellebecq's Soumission book and Roger Scruton's Confessions of a Heretic

  • literature
  • politics
"It’s submission,"

-Michel Houellebecq, Soumission

"There is no Israel for me."

-Michel Houellebecq, Soumission

"Intimacy isn’t something men talk about."

-Michel Houellebecq, Soumission

"I was about as political as a bath towel."

-Michel Houellebecq, Soumission

19. The Great Heresies

By: Hilaire Belloc

3.82

Format: 736 pages, Paperback

Here the great Catholic historian Hilaire Belloc analyzes 5 of the greatest heresies of all time: A… read more

Similar categories in Hilaire Belloc's The Great Heresies book and Roger Scruton's Confessions of a Heretic

Cover of Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin, James E. Falen

20. Eugene Onegin

By: Alexander Pushkin , James E. Falen

4.10

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Eugene Onegin is the master work of the poet whom Russians regard as the fountainhead of their lite… read more

Similar categories in Alexander Pushkin's Eugene Onegin book and Roger Scruton's Confessions of a Heretic

  • literature
"He's happy now, he's almost sane."

-Alexander Pushkin, Eugene Onegin

"Habit is heaven's gift to us: a substitute for happiness."

-Alexander Pushkin, Eugene Onegin

"My whole life has been pledged to this meeting with you..."

-Alexander Pushkin, Eugene Onegin

"I'm only writing this to show That I stopped sinning long ago."

-Alexander Pushkin, Eugene Onegin

21. The Brain: The Story of You

By: David Eagleman

4.01

Format: 0 pages, Hardcover

Locked in the silence and darkness of your skull, your brain fashions the rich narratives of your r… read more

Similar categories in David Eagleman's The Brain: The Story of You book and Roger Scruton's Confessions of a Heretic

Cover of Jews Don't Count by David Baddiel

22. Jews Don't Count

By: David Baddiel

4.21

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

Jews Don’t Count is a book for people on the right side of history. People fighting the good fight … read more

Similar categories in David Baddiel's Jews Don't Count book and Roger Scruton's Confessions of a Heretic

  • politics
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • essays
Cover of The War on the West by Douglas Murray

23. The War on the West

By: Douglas Murray

4.28

Format: 308 pages, Hardcover

An Instant New York Times Bestseller! China has concentration camps now. Why do Westerners claim… read more

Similar categories in Douglas Murray's The War on the West book and Roger Scruton's Confessions of a Heretic

  • cultural
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • religion
  • nonfiction
"To delegitimize the West, it appears to be necessary first to demonize the people who still make up the racial majority in the West. It is necessary to demonize white people."

-Douglas Murray, The War on the West

"Race is now an issue in all Western countries in a way it has not been for decades. In the place of color blindness, we have been pushed into racial ultra-awareness. A deeply warped picture has now b…"

-Douglas Murray, The War on the West

"Like all societies in history, all Western nations have racism in their histories. But that is not the only history of our countries. Racism is not the sole lens through which our societies can be un…"

-Douglas Murray, The War on the West

"Historical criticism and rethinking are never a bad idea. However, the hunt for visible, tangible problems shouldn't become a hunt for invisible, intangible problems. Especially not if they are carri…"

-Douglas Murray, The War on the West

Cover of The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self: Cultural Amnesia, Expressive Individualism, and the Road to Sexual Revolution by Carl R. Trueman

24. The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self: Cultural Amnesia, Expressive Individualism, and the Road to Sexual Revolution

By: Carl R. Trueman

4.57

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

Modern culture is obsessed with identity. Since the landmark Obergefell v. Hodges Supreme Court … read more

Similar categories in Carl R. Trueman's The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self: Cultural Amnesia, Expressive Individualism, and the Road to Sexual Revolution book and Roger Scruton's Confessions of a Heretic

  • cultural
  • theology
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • religion
  • nonfiction
"[I]n the work of the New Left one finds philosophical justification for what are now intuitive commonplaces of our culture: to be free is to be sexually liberated; to be happy is to be affirmed in th…"

-Carl R. Trueman, The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self: Cultural Amnesia, Expressive Individualism, and the Road to Sexual Revolution

"The expressive individual is now the sexually expressive individual. And education and socialization are to be marked not by the cultivation of traditional sexual interdicts and taboos but rather by …"

-Carl R. Trueman, The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self: Cultural Amnesia, Expressive Individualism, and the Road to Sexual Revolution

Cover of Life in the Negative World: Confronting Challenges in an Anti-Christian Culture by Aaron Renn

25. Life in the Negative World: Confronting Challenges in an Anti-Christian Culture

By: Aaron Renn

4.23

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Learning how to live in today's new social and cultural environment will require examination, trial… read more

Similar categories in Aaron Renn's Life in the Negative World: Confronting Challenges in an Anti-Christian Culture book and Roger Scruton's Confessions of a Heretic

  • cultural
  • theology
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • religion
  • nonfiction
Cover of Feminism Against Progress by Mary Harrington

26. Feminism Against Progress

By: Mary Harrington

4.09

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Modern feminism increasingly benefits only a small class of professional women. There is no reason … read more

Similar categories in Mary Harrington's Feminism Against Progress book and Roger Scruton's Confessions of a Heretic

  • cultural
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
"But the weakness of these proposals isn't that they're unworkable, or even that they're 'traditional,' but that they're not traditional enough. For most of history, men and women worked together, in …"

-Mary Harrington, Feminism Against Progress

Cover of The End of Everything: How Wars Descend into Annihilation by Victor Davis Hanson

27. The End of Everything: How Wars Descend into Annihilation

By: Victor Davis Hanson

4.32

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A New York Times –bestselling historian charts how and why societies from ancient Greece to the mod… read more

Similar categories in Victor Davis Hanson's The End of Everything: How Wars Descend into Annihilation book and Roger Scruton's Confessions of a Heretic

  • politics
  • nonfiction
"...there is no certainty that as scientific progress accelerates and leisure increases, and as the world shrinks on our computer and television screens, there is any corresponding advance in wisdom o…"

-Victor Davis Hanson, The End of Everything: How Wars Descend into Annihilation

"The same hubris that posits that complex tools of mass destruction can be created but never used, also fuels the fatal vanity that war itself is an anachronism and no longer an existential concern-at…"

-Victor Davis Hanson, The End of Everything: How Wars Descend into Annihilation

"War is probably the oldest human endeavor, and its face of battle is constantly changing, with new challenges prompting counterresponses. Its novel and unforeseen dangers can never be underestimated.…"

-Victor Davis Hanson, The End of Everything: How Wars Descend into Annihilation

Cover of The Way Home: Tales from a life without technology by Mark Boyle

28. The Way Home: Tales from a life without technology

By: Mark Boyle

3.94

Format: 277 pages, Kindle Edition

It was 11:00 pm when I checked my email for the last time and turned off my phone for what I hoped … read more

Similar categories in Mark Boyle's The Way Home: Tales from a life without technology book and Roger Scruton's Confessions of a Heretic

  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Last Messiah by Peter Wessel Zapffe

29. The Last Messiah

By: Peter Wessel Zapffe

4.32

Format: 20 pages, Kindle Edition

The supreme text of Antinatalist despair! Norwegian philosopher Peter Zapffe re-imagines the human … read more

Similar categories in Peter Wessel Zapffe's The Last Messiah book and Roger Scruton's Confessions of a Heretic

  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • essays
"Man beholds the earth, and it is breathing like a great lung; whenever it exhales, delightful life swarms from all its pores and reaches out toward the sun, but when it inhales, a moan of rupture pas…"

-Peter Wessel Zapffe, The Last Messiah

"A man will come forth, who before all other men has dared to strip his soul naked and give himself wholly over to our most profound questioning, even to the idea of annihilation. A man who has graspe…"

-Peter Wessel Zapffe, The Last Messiah

Cover of Is Atheism Dead? by Eric Metaxas

30. Is Atheism Dead?

By: Eric Metaxas

4.39

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

Eric Metaxas, the author of the #1 bestseller Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy, now releases his hardc… read more

Similar categories in Eric Metaxas's Is Atheism Dead? book and Roger Scruton's Confessions of a Heretic

  • philosophy
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • theology
"The idea that people of faith cling to God to avoid science has been replaced with the idea that atheists cling to their invented God-of-the-gaps idea to avoid the real God who created the universe t…"

-Eric Metaxas, Is Atheism Dead?

"Because God who has made us in his image has created all of creation to point us to himself in every conceivable way. We are not incidental to what he has done. We are central to it. Which makes us s…"

-Eric Metaxas, Is Atheism Dead?

Cover of Confessions of a Heretic by Roger Scruton

31. Confessions of a Heretic

By: Roger Scruton

4.28

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

A collection of provocative essays by the influential social commentator, Roger Scruton. Scruton ex… read more

Similar categories in Roger Scruton's Confessions of a Heretic book and Roger Scruton's Confessions of a Heretic

  • cultural
  • art
  • theology
  • literature
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • essays

10 Best literature books like Confessions of a Heretic by Roger Scruton

Transform Your Habits

The Glass Bees

Louise Bogan , Bruce Sterling , Ernst Jünger , Elizabeth Mayer

3.69

Transform Your Habits

A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories

Flannery O'Connor

4.17

Transform Your Habits

On the Marble Cliffs

Stuart Hood , George Steiner , Ernst Jünger

3.80

Transform Your Habits

Officers and Gentlemen (Sword of Honour, #2)

Evelyn Waugh

3.95

View all the books

15 best-selling biography books like The Way Home: Tales from a life without technology by Mark Boyle

Transform Your Habits

One Man's Wilderness: An Alaskan Odyssey

None , None , Sam Keith , Richard L. Proenneke

4.35

Walking Away

Simon Armitage

4.09

Transform Your Habits

Cache Lake Country: Life in the North Woods

Henry B. Kane , John J. Rowlands

3.53

Transform Your Habits

Landlines

Raynor Winn

4.33

View all the books

Never miss a story from us, get weekly updates in your inbox.