8 must-read classics books like Maximus the Confessor: Selected Writings (Classics of Western Spirituality (Paperback)) by Maximus the Confessor

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Maximus the Confessor: Selected Writings (Classics of Western Spirituality (Paperback))

By: Maximus the Confessor

4.23

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Maximus is called the Confessor because of his sufferings and labors for the true faith. During the…

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1. On the Divine Images: 3 Apologies Against Those Who Attack the Divine Images (English and Ancient Greek Edition)

By: John of Damascus

4.26

Format: 106 pages, Paperback

St John of Damascus wrote these three treaties Against Those Who Attack the Divine Images in respon… read more

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  • classics
  • christian
  • church history
  • theology
  • christianity
  • philosophy
  • religion
  • nonfiction
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2. The Soul of the World

By: Roger Scruton

4.01

Format: 216 pages, Hardcover

In "The Soul of the World," renowned philosopher Roger Scruton defends the experience of the sacred… read more

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  • theology
  • christianity
  • philosophy
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
"The God of the philosophers disappeared behind the world, because he was described in the third person, and not addressed in the second."

-Roger Scruton, The Soul of the World

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3. The Poetic Edda

By: Anonymous , Lee M. Hollander

4.26

Format: 331 pages, Paperback

The Poetic Eddacomprises a treasure trove of mythic and spiritual verse holding an important place … read more

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  • classics
  • nonfiction
  • religion

4. 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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  • nonfiction
  • religion
  • theology
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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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  • classics
  • christian
  • theology
  • philosophy
  • religion
  • nonfiction
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6. Faust: First Part

By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , Peter Salm

4.21

Format: None pages, Paperback

Goethe's masterpiece and perhaps the greatest work in German literature, Faust has made the legenda… read more

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  • classics
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7. 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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  • classics
  • christian
  • theology
  • christianity
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality

8. 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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9. The Life of Moses

By: Everett Ferguson , Abraham J. Malherbe , Gregory of Nyssa

4.31

Format: 1056 pages, Paperback

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10. 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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11. The Life of St. Anthony

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

3.98

Format: 212 pages,

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12. The Sayings of the Desert Fathers: The Alphabetical Collection (Cistercian studies 59)

By: Benedicta Ward , Anthony of Sourozh

4.05

Format: None pages, Paperback

`Give me a word, Father', visitors to early desert monks asked. The responses of these pioneer asce… read more

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13. The History of the Church: From Christ to Constantine

By: Eusebius , Andrew Louth , G.A. Williamson

3.89

Format: 266 pages, Paperback

Eusebius's account is the only surviving historical record of the Church during its crucial first 3… read more

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14. Wounded by Love

By: Elder Porphyrios

4.57

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

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15. On Fairy-Stories

By: J.R.R. Tolkien

3.88

Format: 383 pages,

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16. 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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17. 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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18. The Way of a Pilgrim

By: Anonymous , Thomas Hopko , None

3.86

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Ova knjiga nije drugo nego upravo pokusaj opisati osobno iskustvo jednog ruskog poboznika - bogotra… read more

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19. On the Holy Icons

By: Catharine P. Roth , None , None , None

4.00

Format: 300 pages, Paperback

Written in the midst of the iconoclastic controversy of the 8th-9th centuries, these essays affirm … read more

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20. The Complete Works

By: Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite , Karlfried Froehlich

3.59

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

There are few figures in the history of Western Spirituality who are more enigmatic than the fifth … read more

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21. On the Holy Spirit

By: David Anderson , Basil the Great

0.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

This classic exposition of Trinitarian doctrine eloquently sets forth the distinction yet perpetual… read more

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22. On the Soul and the Resurrection

By: Gregory of Nyssa

3.67

Format: 220 pages, Paperback

What happens to us after death? How do we reconcile our religious beliefs and our scientific world … read more

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23. Paradise Lost

By: John Milton , John Leonard

3.84

Format: 512 pages, Paperback

John Milton's Paradise Lost is one of the greatest epic poems in the English language. It tells the… read more

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  • classics
  • religion
"What hath night to do with sleep?"

-John Milton, Paradise Lost

"Solitude sometimes is best society."

-John Milton, Paradise Lost

"Awake, arise or be for ever fall’n."

-John Milton, Paradise Lost

"Wild above rule or art, enormous bliss."

-John Milton, Paradise Lost

24. Atheist Delusions: The Christian Revolution and Its Fashionable Enemies

By: David Bentley Hart

3.84

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

In this provocative book one of the most brilliant scholars of religion today dismantles distorted … read more

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25. Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World

By: Tom Holland

4.26

Format: 624 pages, Hardcover

A "marvelous" (Economist) account of how the Christian Revolution forged the Western imagination. … read more

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  • church history
  • theology
  • christianity
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
"To hail a religion for its compatibility with a secular society was decidedly not a neutral gesture. Secularism was no less bred of the sweep of Christian history than were Orban's barbed-wire fences…"

-Tom Holland, Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World

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26. The Reign of Quantity & the Signs of the Times

By: René Guénon

4.34

Format: 300 pages, Paperback

The Reign of Quantity gives a concise but comprehensive view of the present state of affairs in the… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
"[...] The movement of the celestial bodies can be given as an example. It is not exactly circular, but elliptic; the ellipse constitutes as it were a first “specification"

-René Guénon, The Reign of Quantity & the Signs of the Times

"It may be remarked incidentally that the contentions of philosophers are often much more justifiable when they are arguing against other philosophers than when they pass on to expound their own views…"

-René Guénon, The Reign of Quantity & the Signs of the Times

"un corps, qui est quelque chose d’étendu par définition même, est forcément toujours composé de parties, et si petit qu’il soit ou qu’on veuille le supposer, cela n’y change rien, de sorte que la not…"

-René Guénon, The Reign of Quantity & the Signs of the Times

"À ce propos, nous ajouterons encore une remarque concernant certaines descriptions d’êtres étranges qui se rencontrent dans ces récits : comme ces descriptions datent naturellement tout au plus de l’…"

-René Guénon, The Reign of Quantity & the Signs of the Times

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27. That All Shall Be Saved: Heaven, Hell, and Universal Salvation

By: David Bentley Hart

4.26

Format: 232 pages, Hardcover

The great fourth-century church father Basil of Caesarea once observed that, in his time, most Chri… read more

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"As far as I am concerned, anyone who hopes for the universal reconciliation of all creatures with God must already believe that this would be the best possible ending to the Christian story; and such…"

-David Bentley Hart, That All Shall Be Saved: Heaven, Hell, and Universal Salvation

"Really, on the whole, Christians rarely pay particularly close attention to what the Bible actually says, for the simple reason that the texts defy synthesis in a canon of exact doctrines, and yet mo…"

-David Bentley Hart, That All Shall Be Saved: Heaven, Hell, and Universal Salvation

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28. Tradition and Apocalypse: An Essay on the Future of Christian Belief

By: David Bentley Hart

4.11

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

In the two thousand years that have elapsed since the time of Christ, Christians have been as much … read more

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  • christianity
  • philosophy
  • religion
  • theology
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29. On the making of man

By: Gregory of Nyssa

3.99

Format: 166 pages, Paperback

Gregory of Nyssa, also known as Gregory Nyssen (c. 335 – c. 395), was bishop of Nyssa from 372 to 3… read more

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  • nonfiction
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30. You Are Gods: On Nature and Supernature

By: David Bentley Hart

4.14

Format: 158 pages, Hardcover

David Bentley Hart offers an intense and thorough reflection upon the issue of the supernatural in … read more

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31. Maximus the Confessor: Selected Writings (Classics of Western Spirituality (Paperback))

By: Maximus the Confessor

4.23

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Maximus is called the Confessor because of his sufferings and labors for the true faith. During the… read more

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Roger Scruton

4.01

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Augustine of Hippo , Henry Chadwick , Albert Cook Outler

3.41

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John Milton , John Leonard

3.84

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Christopher Marlowe

3.80

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3.77

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Dante Alighieri , Eugenio Montale , Allen Mandelbaum

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