The Shining Human Creature: Christian Ethics, Vol. 1
By: Thomas Traherne
4.41
Format: 133 pages, Paperback
What did God intendman to be? What will man be when restored by grace? How can this vision drive ou…
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1. The Wind in the Willows
By: Kenneth Grahame , Gillian Avery
4.02
Format: 197 pages, Paperback
“All this he saw, for one moment breathless and intense, vivid on the morning sky; and still, as he… read more
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"...Absorbed in the new scents, the sounds, and the sunlight..."-Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
"Badger hates Society, and invitations, and dinner, and all that sort of thing."-Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
"There’s nothing––absolutely nothing––half so much worth doing as messing about in boats."-Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
"After all, the best part of a holiday is perhaps not so much to be resting yourself, as to see all the other fellows busy working."-Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
2. Proslogion
By: Anselm of Canterbury , Max J. Charlesworth
3.80
Format: 206 pages, Paperback
In the Proslogion , St. Anselm presents a philosophical argument for the existence of God. Anselm's… read more
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"Eu nu caut să înțeleg pentru a crede, ci eu cred pentru a înțelege."-Anselm of Canterbury, Proslogion
"Oh, mizeră soartă a omului care L-a pierdut pe Cel pentru care a fost făcut."-Anselm of Canterbury, Proslogion
"I was striving unto God but collided with myself. I was seeking rest in my inner recesses but found tribulation and grief in my inmost being."-Anselm of Canterbury, Proslogion
"Nous sommes certainement tous tombés dans celui dans lequel nous avons tous péché! Celui qui possédait si facilement tant de bonheur évanoui maintenant, l'a pour lui et pour nous malheureusement perd…"-Anselm of Canterbury, Proslogion
3. The Intellectual Life: Its Spirit, Conditions, Methods
By: Antonin Sertillanges
4.41
Format: 264 pages, Paperback
"Fr. Sertillanges's teachings are as timeless as any truths which describe the genuine nature of th… read more
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"Genius simplifies things"-Antonin Sertillanges, The Intellectual Life: Its Spirit, Conditions, Methods
"Truth serves only its slaves."-Antonin Sertillanges, The Intellectual Life: Its Spirit, Conditions, Methods
"Reason ambitions only a world; faith gives it infinity."-Antonin Sertillanges, The Intellectual Life: Its Spirit, Conditions, Methods
"The good is the brother of the true; it will help its brother."-Antonin Sertillanges, The Intellectual Life: Its Spirit, Conditions, Methods
4. Hannah Coulter
By: Wendell Berry
4.38
Format: 190 pages, Paperback
Hannah Coulter is Wendell Berry's seventh novel and his first to employ the voice of a woman charac… read more
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"Time doesn't stop. Your life doesn't stop and wait until you get ready to start living it."-Wendell Berry, Hannah Coulter
"And so I learned about grief, and about the absence and emptiness that for a long time make grief unforgettable."-Wendell Berry, Hannah Coulter
"Living right on called for nothing out of the ordinary. We made no changes. We only accepted the changes as they came."-Wendell Berry, Hannah Coulter
"Grandmam came back from that distance in time that separates grandmothers from their grandchildren and made herself a mother to me."-Wendell Berry, Hannah Coulter
5. The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare
By: Jonathan Lethem , G.K. Chesterton
2.67
Format: 166 pages,
G.K. Chesterton's 1908 masterpiece, The Man Who Was Thursday, is a metaphysical thriller, and a det… read more
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6. The Supper of the Lamb: A Culinary Reflection
By: Ruth Reichl , Robert Farrar Capon , Deborah Madison
4.14
Format: None pages, Paperback
From a passionate and talented chef who also happens to be an Episcopalian priest comes this surpri… read more
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7. 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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8. The Great Divorce
By: C.S. Lewis
4.31
Format: 146 pages, Paperback
Alternative cover for ISBN: 978-0-00-746123-3 C.S. Lewis’ The Great Divorce is a classic Christi… read more
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"Reality is harsh to the feet of shadows. But will you come?"-C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce
"Good, as it ripens, becomes continually more different not only from evil but from other good."-C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce
"There is but one good; that is God. Everything else is good when it looks to Him and bad when it turns from Him."-C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce
"I cannot love a lie," said the Lady. "I cannot love the thing which is not. I am in Love, and out of it I will not go."-C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce
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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10. 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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11. The Divine Essence and Attributes, Volume 3
By: Richard A. Muller
4.61
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
The theology of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries is often misrepresented in church histories… read more
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12. On Christian Doctrine
By: Augustine of Hippo , D.W. Robertson Jr.
3.25
Format: None pages, Paperback
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13. An Experiment in Criticism
By: C.S. Lewis
3.94
Format: 456 pages, Paperback
Why do we read literature and how do we judge it? C.S. Lewis's classic analysis springs from the co… read more
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14. 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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15. After Virtue
By: Alasdair MacIntyre
4.18
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
When After Virtue first appeared in 1981, it was recognized as a significant and potentially contro… read more
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"All power tends to coopt, and absolute power coopts absolutely."-Alasdair MacIntyre, After Virtue
"At the foundation of moral thinking lie beliefs in statements the truth of which no further reason can be given."-Alasdair MacIntyre, After Virtue
"The introduction of the word ‘intuition’ by a moral philosopher is always a signal that something has gone badly wrong with an argument."-Alasdair MacIntyre, After Virtue
"Man is ... essentially a story-telling animal. That means I can only answer the question 'what am I to do?' if I can answer the prior question of 'what story or stories do I find myself a part of?"-Alasdair MacIntyre, After Virtue
16. Out of the Silent Planet (The Space Trilogy, #1)
By: C.S. Lewis
3.93
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
In the first novel of C.S. Lewis's classic science fiction trilogy, Dr Ransom, a Cambridge academic… read more
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"The love of knowledge is a kind of madness."-C.S. Lewis, Out of the Silent Planet (The Space Trilogy, #1)
"A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered."-C.S. Lewis, Out of the Silent Planet (The Space Trilogy, #1)
"There I drank life because death was in the pool. That was the best of drinks save one."-C.S. Lewis, Out of the Silent Planet (The Space Trilogy, #1)
"And I say also this. I do not think the forest would be so bright, nor the water so warm, nor love so sweet, if there were no danger in the lakes."-C.S. Lewis, Out of the Silent Planet (The Space Trilogy, #1)
17. On the Cosmic Mystery of Jesus Christ: Selected Writings
By: Robert L. Wilken , Maximus the Confessor , Paul M. Blowers
4.12
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
St Maximus' two main collections of theological reflections-his Ambigua (or "Difficulties") and his… read more
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18. Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life
By: C.S. Lewis
4.19
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Lifeis a partial autobiography describing Lewis' conversion… read more
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19. Knowing God
By: J.I. Packer
2.00
Format: 232 pages, Paperback
For over 40 years, J. I. Packer's classic has been an important tool to help Christians around the … read more
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20. A Failure of Nerve: Leadership in the Age of the Quick Fix
By: Edwin H. Friedman , None , None
3.57
Format: 307 pages, Paperback
Ten years after his death, Edwin Friedman's insights into leadership are more urgently needed than … read more
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21. The Discarded Image: An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature
By: C.S. Lewis
2.80
Format: None pages, Paperback
Hailed as the final memorial to the work of a great scholar and teacher and a wise and noble mind, … read more
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22. For the Life of the World: Sacraments and Orthodoxy
By: Alexander Schmemann
3.75
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
An approach to the world and to life that stems from the liturgical experience of the Orthodox Chur… read more
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23. Perelandra (The Space Trilogy, #2)
By: C.S. Lewis
4.00
Format: 314 pages, Paperback
The second book in C. S. Lewis's acclaimed Space Trilogy, which also includes Out of the Silent Pla… read more
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"Say a child’s prayer if you can’t say a man’s."-C.S. Lewis, Perelandra (The Space Trilogy, #2)
"It is not for nothing that you are named Ransom,"-C.S. Lewis, Perelandra (The Space Trilogy, #2)
"The joy came from finding at last what hatred was made for."-C.S. Lewis, Perelandra (The Space Trilogy, #2)
"About this time tomorrow, you will have done the impossible."-C.S. Lewis, Perelandra (The Space Trilogy, #2)
24. Leadership and Emotional Sabotage: Resisting the Anxiety That Will Wreck Your Family, Destroy Your Church, and Ruin the World
By: Joe Rigney
4.54
Format: 120 pages, Hardcover
Who are you when the teeth come out? For every true act of leadership, there is an equal and mo… read more
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"The Scriptures regularly use the metaphor of a body to speak about human social life. The church is the body of Christ, with many members (1 Cor. 12). Marriage is a “one flesh"-Joe Rigney, Leadership and Emotional Sabotage: Resisting the Anxiety That Will Wreck Your Family, Destroy Your Church, and Ruin the World
25. The Genesis of Gender: A Christian Theory
By: Abigail Rine Favale
4.59
Format: 248 pages, Paperback
The question of gender—who we are as men and women—has never been more pressing, or more misunderst… read more
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26. A Quiet Mind to Suffer With: Mental Illness, Trauma, and the Death of Christ
By: John Andrew Bryant
4.54
Format: 300 pages, Paperback
Publishers Weekly starred review “This is a stunning book, so rare and so beautiful. I cannot recom… read more
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27. Protestant Social Teaching: An Introduction
By: Alastair J. Roberts
3.93
Format: 248 pages, Paperback
“If we are to witness moral renewal in our societies, Protestants will have a major role to play, a… read more
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28. The Shining Human Creature: Christian Ethics, Vol. 1
By: Thomas Traherne
4.41
Format: 133 pages, Paperback
What did God intendman to be? What will man be when restored by grace? How can this vision drive ou… read more
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29. Deep Anglicanism: A Brief Guide
By: Gerald McDermott
4.26
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
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30. Begotten or Made?
By: Oliver O'Donovan
4.64
Format: 143 pages, Paperback
“Though written decades ago, this little book by O’Donovan is a masterpiece and still one of the be… read more
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31. Called into Questions: Cultivating the Love of Learning Within the Life of Faith
By: Matthew Lee Anderson
4.75
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Do we know what it means to question well? We need not fear questions. By the grace of God, we have… read more
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