14 must-read religion books like The Divine Names and The Mystical Theology by Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite

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The Divine Names and The Mystical Theology

By: Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite

3.98

Format: 266 pages, Paperback

Book by Pseudo-Dionysius Aeropagite, Jones, John D.

If you liked the religion plot in The Divine Names and The Mystical Theology by Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite , here is a list of 14 books like this:

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1. The Histories

By: Herodotus , Aubrey de Sélincourt , John M. Marincola

4.01

Format: 716 pages, Paperback

David Grene, one of the best known translators of the Greek classics, splendidly captures the pecul… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
"Hippocleides doesn't care."

-Herodotus, The Histories

"So much, then, for the fish."

-Herodotus, The Histories

"La muerte es para el hombre el más deseado refugio."

-Herodotus, The Histories

"Muchos hombres opulentos son desdichados, y muchos que tienen hacienda moderada son dichosos."

-Herodotus, The Histories

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2. The Elements of Theology

By: Proclus , E.R. Dodds

4.27

Format: 348 pages, Paperback

Proclus' Elements of Theology is a concise summa of the Neoplatonic system in its fully developed f… read more

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  • theology
  • philosophy
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • mysticism
  • metaphysics
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3. The Kreutzer Sonata

By: Doris Lessing , Leo Tolstoy , Isai Kamen

3.87

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

When Marshal of the Nobility Pozdnyshev suspects his wife of having an affair with her music partne… read more

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"In a large city the unhappy feel their sadness less acutely."

-Doris Lessing, The Kreutzer Sonata

"It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness."

-Doris Lessing, The Kreutzer Sonata

"Yes, man is much worse than the animal when he does not live like a man."

-Doris Lessing, The Kreutzer Sonata

"Удивительное дело, какая полная бывает иллюзия того, что красота есть добро."

-Doris Lessing, The Kreutzer Sonata

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4. Fear and Trembling

By: Søren Kierkegaard , Alastair Hannay

4.75

Format: 335 pages, Paperback

Soren Kierkegaard was a Danish philosopher, theologian and religious author interested in human psy… read more

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  • theology
  • christianity
  • philosophy
  • religion
  • nonfiction
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5. Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice

By: Shunryu Suzuki , Huston Smith , Trudy Dixon , Richard Baker

4.21

Format: 138 pages, Paperback

“In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s there are few.” So begins… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
"Waves are the practice of the water."

-Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice

"You do not say, “This is enlightenment,"

-Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice

"Sincerity itself is the railroad track."

-Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice

"Zen practice is to open up our small mind."

-Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice

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6. Timaeus

By: Plato , Peter Kalkavage , Donald J. Zeyl , None , None

4.00

Format: 202 pages, Paperback

First published in Plato: Complete Works, Donald J. Zeyl's masterful translation of Timaeusis prese… read more

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  • philosophy
  • religion
  • nonfiction

7. The Consolation of Philosophy

By: Boethius , None

4.27

Format: 24 pages, Paperback

Boethius was an eminent public figure under the Gothic emperor Theodoric, and an exceptional Greek … read more

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  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • theology
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8. Parmenides

By: Plato , Keith Whitaker

4.53

Format: 122 pages, Paperback

This is an English translation of one of the more challenging and enigmatic of Plato's dialogues be… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • metaphysics
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9. 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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  • philosophy
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • theology
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10. Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison

By: Michel Foucault , Alan Sheridan , None , None , None

3.35

Format: 520 pages, Paperback

Librarian note: an alternate cover for this edition can be found . In this brilliant work, the mos… read more

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  • theory
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
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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

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  • theology
  • christianity
  • philosophy
  • religion
  • nonfiction
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12. Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics

By: Immanuel Kant , James W. Ellington , Paul Carus

4.12

Format: 29 pages, Paperback

This edition of Prolegomenaincludes Kant's letter of February, 1772 to Marcus Herz, a momentous doc… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • metaphysics
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13. The Gnostic Gospels

By: Elaine Pagels

4.36

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

The Gnostic Gospels is a landmark study of the long-buried roots of Christianity, a work of luminou… read more

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  • theology
  • christianity
  • philosophy
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
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14. The Cloud of Unknowing

By: Anonymous , James Walsh

3.93

Format: None pages, Paperback

Widely considered a hallmark of Western literature and spirituality, The Cloud of Unknowing is an a… read more

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  • theology
  • christianity
  • philosophy
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
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15. A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge

By: George Berkeley , 贝克莱 , 关文运

4.00

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

George Berkeley was an Irish Philosopher who is best known for putting forward the idea of subjecti… read more

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  • philosophy
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • metaphysics

16. On the Incarnation

By: C.S. Lewis , Athanasius of Alexandria , None

3.29

Format: None pages, Paperback

A universally acknowledged masterpiece of fourth-century patristic theology. As C. S. Lewis observe… read more

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17. The Way of Chuang Tzu (Shambhala Library)

By: Zhuangzi , Thomas Merton

4.20

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Chuang Tzu—considered, along with Lao Tzu, one of the great figures of early Taoist thought—used pa… read more

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  • philosophy
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  • spirituality
"I know the joy of fishes In the river Through my own joy, as I go walking Along the same river."

-Zhuangzi, The Way of Chuang Tzu (Shambhala Library)

"To know when to stop To know when you can get no further By your own action, This is the right beginning!"

-Zhuangzi, The Way of Chuang Tzu (Shambhala Library)

"The greatest politeness Is free of all formality. Perfect conduct Is free of concern. Perfect wisdom Is unplanned. Perfect love Is without demonstrations. Perfect sincerity offers No guarantee."

-Zhuangzi, The Way of Chuang Tzu (Shambhala Library)

"The greatest politeness is free of all formality. Perfect conduct Is free of concern. Perfect wisdom is unplanned. Perfect love is without demonstrations. Perfect sincerity offers No guarantee."

-Zhuangzi, The Way of Chuang Tzu (Shambhala Library)

18. The Sickness Unto Death: A Christian Psychological Exposition for Upbuilding and Awakening

By: Søren Kierkegaard , Edna Hatlestad Hong , Howard Vincent Hong

4.06

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

A companion piece to The Concept of Anxiety, this work continues Soren Kierkegaard's radical and co… read more

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19. On First Principles

By: Origen , Henri de Lubac , None , None , None , None

4.18

Format: 200 pages, Hardcover

s/t: Being Koetschau's Text of the De Principiis Translated into English Together with an Introduct… read more

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20. Euthyphro

By: Plato , Chris Emlyn-Jones

4.15

Format: None pages, Paperback

Awaiting his trial on charges of impiety and heresy, Socrates encounters Euthyphro, a self-proclaim… read more

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21. Charmides

By: Plato

3.87

Format: None pages, Paperback

A literal translation, allowing the simplicity and vigor of the Greek diction to shine through. read more

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22. 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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23. Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals

By: Immanuel Kant , Christine M. Korsgaard , Mary J. Gregor

4.27

Format: 197 pages, paper

Immanuel Kant's Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals ranks alongside Plato's Republic and Aristo… read more

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24. Politics

By: Aristotle

3.67

Format: 542 pages, Paperback

What is the relationship of the individual to the state? What is the ideal state, and how can it br… read more

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25. The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex/Oedipus at Colonus/Antigone (The Theban Plays, #1–3)

By: Sophocles , Robert Fitzgerald , Dudley Fitts , None

5.00

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

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26. Modern Man in Search of a Soul

By: C.G. Jung

4.20

Format: 244 pages, Paperback

A provocative and enlightening look at spiritual unease and its contribution to the void in modern … read more

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"Is that which science calls the “psyche"

-C.G. Jung, Modern Man in Search of a Soul

"Art has a way of anticipating future changes in man’s fundamental outlook."

-C.G. Jung, Modern Man in Search of a Soul

"We cannot change anything unless we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate; it oppresses."

-C.G. Jung, Modern Man in Search of a Soul

"Much of the evil in this world is due to the fact that man, in general, is hopelessly unconscious."

-C.G. Jung, Modern Man in Search of a Soul

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27. The Anglo-Saxons A History of the Beginnings of England: 400–1066

By: Marc Morris

4.34

Format: 508 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping and original history of the Anglo-Saxons by national bestselling author Marc Morris. … read more

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28. The Medieval Mind of C.S. Lewis: How Great Books Shaped a Great Mind

By: Jason M. Baxter

4.51

Format: None pages, Audio CD

C. S. Lewis had one of the great minds of the twentieth century. Many readers know Lewis as an auth… read more

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29. Porphyry on the Cave of the Nymphs

By: Porphyry

4.03

Format: 66 pages, Paperback

This brief volume contains Robert Lamberton's translation of Porphyry's essay "On the Cave of the N… read more

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30. The Scent of Time: A Philosophical Essay on the Art of Lingering

By: Byung-Chul Han

4.15

Format: 120 pages, Hardcover

In his philosophical reflections on the art of lingering, acclaimed cultural theorist Byung-Chul Ha… read more

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"One feels free in relationships of love and friendship. It is not the absence of ties, but ties themselves which set us free. Freedom is a word which pertains to relations par excellence. Without hol…"

-Byung-Chul Han, The Scent of Time: A Philosophical Essay on the Art of Lingering

"As soon as one looks deeper into being one recognizes that all things are interconnected, that even the least of them communicates with a whole world. But the age of haste does not have the time to h…"

-Byung-Chul Han, The Scent of Time: A Philosophical Essay on the Art of Lingering

"An altogether different temporality is inherent in information. It is a phenomenon of atomized time, namely of point-time. [...] Atomized time is a discontinuous time. There is nothing to bind events…"

-Byung-Chul Han, The Scent of Time: A Philosophical Essay on the Art of Lingering

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31. The Divine Names and The Mystical Theology

By: Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite

3.98

Format: 266 pages, Paperback

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