5 must-read philosophy books like The Field: Cultivating Salvation by Ignatius Brianchaninov

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The Field: Cultivating Salvation

By: Ignatius Brianchaninov

4.74

Format: 373 pages, Paperback

The spiritual harvest requires a heart that is harrowed by repentance, softened by compunction, and…

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1. Orthodoxy and Heterodoxy: Finding the Way to Christ in a Complicated Religious Landscape

By: Andrew Stephen Damick

4.37

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

This new edition of the bestselling Orthodoxy & Heterodoxy is fully revised and significantly expan… read more

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"Orthodoxy is marked by sobriety, not by emotional enthusiasm. It is also marked by a quite “ordinary"

-Andrew Stephen Damick, Orthodoxy and Heterodoxy: Finding the Way to Christ in a Complicated Religious Landscape

"Most of the time, we are concerned with the truth. A cashier has to make sure he knows the exact change he's giving. A nurse has to apply just the right amount of medication to a patient. A mathemati…"

-Andrew Stephen Damick, Orthodoxy and Heterodoxy: Finding the Way to Christ in a Complicated Religious Landscape

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2. How to Live a Holy Life

By: Gregory Postnikov , Seraphim Englehardt

4.68

Format: 150 pages, Paperback

This pocket-sized book, originally published in Russian in 1904, is a short but comprehensive work … read more

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3. Martin the Warrior (Redwall, #6)

By: Brian Jacques

4.16

Format: 376 pages, Mass Market Paperback

On the shore of the Eastern Sea, in a cold stone fortress, a stoat named Badrang holds dozens of in… read more

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"Don't think about what you could have done, concentrate on what you plan to do; it is more useful."

-Brian Jacques, Martin the Warrior (Redwall, #6)

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4. The Path to Salvation: A Manual of Spiritual Transformation

By: Theophan the Recluse

4.14

Format: 512 pages,

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5. Dead Souls

By: Nikolai Gogol , Robert A. Maguire

3.98

Format: 464 pages, Paperback

Chichikov, a mysterious stranger, arrives in a provincial town and visits a succession of landowner… read more

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"Keep not money, but keep good people's company."

-Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls

"Also, though not over-elderly, he was not over-young."

-Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls

"A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe."

-Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls

"A Russian peasant scratching the back of his head means many different things."

-Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls

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6. The Conquest of Gaul

By: S.A. Handford , Gaius Julius Caesar , Jane F. Gardner , Aulus Hirtius

4.11

Format: None pages, Paperback

The earliest eye-witness account of Britain and its inhabitants appears in these famous memoirs. Be… read more

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7. Oblomov

By: Ivan Goncharov , Stephen Pearl , Galya Diment

4.12

Format: 586 pages, Paperback

Even though Ivan Goncharov wrote several books that were widely read and discussed during his lifet… read more

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"Now or never. To be or not to be!"

-Ivan Goncharov, Oblomov

"Love was life's hardest school of all."

-Ivan Goncharov, Oblomov

"You have a lunatic before you who has been infected by passion."

-Ivan Goncharov, Oblomov

"The common herd of "burghers", those cattle, complete with horns, who turn millstones with their bare hands."

-Ivan Goncharov, Oblomov

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8. Demons

By: Fyodor Dostoevsky , Richard Pevear , Larissa Volokhonsky

4.30

Format: 733 pages, Paperback

Alternate Cover Edition ISBN 0679734511. (ISBN13: 9780679734512) Inspired by the true story of a… read more

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"God is the pain of the fear of death"

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Demons

"Man is unhappy because he doesn't know he's happy. It's only that."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Demons

"Marriage is the moral death of every proud soul, of all independence."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Demons

"...and in fact I've noticed that faith always seems to be less in the daytime"

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Demons

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9. The Name of the Rose

By: Umberto Eco , Seán Barrett , William Weaver

4.14

Format: 552 pages, Paperback

The year is 1327. Franciscans in a wealthy Italian abbey are suspected of heresy, and Brother Willi… read more

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"الكتب ليست مجعولة كي نؤمن بما تقوله ولكن لكي نتحرّى فيها."

-Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose

"Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear."

-Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose

"The people of God cannot be changed until the outcasts are restored to its body."

-Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose

"How peaceful life would be without Love, Adso. How Safe. How Tranquil. And how Dull."

-Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose

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10. Deadhouse Gates (The Malazan Book of the Fallen, #2)

By: Steven Erikson , Gabriel Stoian

3.75

Format: 148 pages, Hardcover

In the vast dominion of Seven Cities, in the Holy Desert Raraku, the seer Sha'ik and her followers … read more

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11. Our Thoughts Determine Our Lives: The Life and Teachings of Elder Thaddeus of Vitovnica

By: Ana Smiljanic , None , Thaddeus of Vitovnica

3.87

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Elder Thaddeus of Vitovnica was one of the most renowned spiritual guides of Serbia in the twentiet… read more

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12. 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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13. The Way of a Pilgrim and the Pilgrim Continues His Way

By: Anonymous , Walter J. Ciszek , Helen Bacovcin

3.95

Format: 145 pages, Paperback

This enduring work of Russian spirituality has charmed countless people with its tale of a nineteen… read more

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14. Father Seraphim Rose: His Life and Works

By: Damascene Christensen

4.17

Format: None pages,

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15. Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster

By: None , Keith Gessen

4.11

Format: None pages, Paperback

Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award On April 2… read more

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16. Nihilism: The Root of the Revolution of the Modern Age

By: Seraphim Rose

3.23

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

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17. Everyday Saints and Other Stories

By: None

3.50

Format: 295 pages, Paperback

More than a million copies and several million electronic versions of this book have sold in less t… read more

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18. The Screwtape Letters

By: C.S. Lewis

4.27

Format: 222 pages, Kindle Edition

A Masterpiece of Satire on Hell’s Latest Novelties and Heaven’s Unanswerable Answer C.S. Lewis’s T… read more

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"It is always the novice who exaggerates."

-C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

"I do not expect old heads on young shoulders."

-C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

"For the Present is the point at which time touches eternity."

-C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

"Music. A meaningless acceleration in the rhythm of celestial experience."

-C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

19. Orthodoxy and the Religion of the Future

By: Seraphim Rose

3.89

Format: None pages,

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20. Laurus

By: None , Lisa Hayden

4.17

Format: 510 pages, Hardcover

It is the late fifteenth century and a village healer in Russia is powerless to help his beloved as… read more

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21. The Soul After Death

By: Seraphim Rose

4.33

Format: 128 pages,

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22. Notes from Underground

By: Fyodor Dostoevsky , Norman Dietz , Richard Pevear , Larissa Volokhonsky , Boris de Schlœzer , Emanuela Guercetti , None , Donald Fanger , None , None , None

4.17

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

Dostoevsky’s most revolutionary novel, Notes from Underground marks the dividing line between ninet… read more

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"l'homme de la nature et de la verite"

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground

"I'll go this minute!' Of course, I remained."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground

"إذ ما العذاب والألم ... سوى المحرك الوحيد للوعي."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground

"To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground

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23. 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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24. The Crucifixion of the King of Glory: The Amazing History and Sublime Mystery of the Passion

By: Eugenia Scarvelis Constantinou

4.76

Format: 446 pages, Kindle Edition

The Crucifixion and Resurrection of Christ are central events in our salvation. Yet few Christians … read more

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25. Orthodox Survival Course

By: Seraphim Rose

4.58

Format: 145 pages, ebook

Transcript of a series of lectures on the "Orthodox Worldview", and the history of post-schism inte… read more

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"There is nothing that we could call ‘new’, because once Christianity had been proclaimed, once Christ came and established His Church, there is nothing more that can be new. This is the preparation f…"

-Seraphim Rose, Orthodox Survival Course

"The very term 'Middle Ages' is an interesting one because it exists only in the West. All other civilizations, whether Christian, such as Byzantine or Russian, or non-Christian, such as the Chinese o…"

-Seraphim Rose, Orthodox Survival Course

"Many things which happen in the world have their power: ideas have their power, political systems have their power, even art movements have their power because there is some seed of truth in them. An…"

-Seraphim Rose, Orthodox Survival Course

"We saw that the period of the Middle Ages was dominated by Scholasticism, that is, the reason which becomes autonomous, reason which is placed above faith. And this reason, as Kireyevsky very well sa…"

-Seraphim Rose, Orthodox Survival Course

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26. Bearing God: The Life and Works of St. Ignatius of Antioch the God-Bearer

By: Andrew Stephen Damick

4.41

Format: 164 pages, Kindle Edition

St. Ignatius, first-century Bishop of Antioch, called the “God-bearer,” is one of the earliest witn… read more

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27. The Field: Cultivating Salvation

By: Ignatius Brianchaninov

4.74

Format: 373 pages, Paperback

The spiritual harvest requires a heart that is harrowed by repentance, softened by compunction, and… read more

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28. Spiritual Struggle (Spiritual Counsels #3)

By: Paisios of Mount Athos

4.85

Format: 326 pages, Paperback

The war of thoughts. Righteoussness and inustice. Sin and Repetance. The evil forces of darkness. T… read more

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29. Mystical Marriage: Spiritual Life According to St. Maximos the Confessor

By: Aimilianos of Simonopetra

4.81

Format: 202 pages, Paperback

This book contains six talks by Elder Aimilianos of Simonopetra (Mt Athos), focusing on select pass… read more

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30. Russia's Catacomb Saints: Lives of the New Martyrs

By: Ivan Andreyev

4.94

Format: 648 pages, Paperback

A masterful statement on the significance of the Catacomb Church as a source of inspiration for Chr… read more

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31. Dorotheos of Gaza: Discourses and Sayings

By: Dorotheus of Gaza

4.65

Format: 259 pages, Paperback

A shrewd observer, a master psychologist, an accomplished raconteur, Dorotheos is also a learned ma… read more

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10 Top christian books like The Field: Cultivating Salvation by Ignatius Brianchaninov

Transform Your Habits

Orthodoxy and Heterodoxy: Finding the Way to Christ in a Complicated Religious Landscape

Andrew Stephen Damick

4.37

Transform Your Habits

The Path to Salvation: A Manual of Spiritual Transformation

Theophan the Recluse

4.14

Our Thoughts Determine Our Lives: The Life and Teachings of Elder Thaddeus of Vitovnica

Ana Smiljanic , None , Thaddeus of Vitovnica

3.87

Transform Your Habits

John Climacus: The Ladder of Divine Ascent

Norman Russell , John Climacus

3.20

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Orthodox Christianity: The History and Canonical Structure of the Orthodox Church (1)

Hilarion Alfeyev

4.33

Transform Your Habits

Orthodoxy and Heterodoxy: Finding the Way to Christ in a Complicated Religious Landscape

Andrew Stephen Damick

4.37

Transform Your Habits

The Didache

Anonymous

3.00

Transform Your Habits

Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties

Tom O'Neill

4.03

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