6 must-read religion books like The Metaphysical Thought of Thomas Aquinas: From Finite Being to Uncreated Being (Monographs of the Society for Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy, 1) by John F. Wippel

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The Metaphysical Thought of Thomas Aquinas: From Finite Being to Uncreated Being (Monographs of the Society for Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy, 1)

By: John F. Wippel

4.45

Format: 630 pages, Paperback

Written by a highly respected scholar of Thomas Aquinas's writings, this volume offers a comprehens…

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1. Guide to Thomas Aquinas

By: Josef Pieper , Richard Winston , Clara Winston

4.23

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

One of the great philosophers of the 20th Century, Josef Pieper, gives a penetrating introduction a… read more

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2. 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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3. Meno

By: Plato , G.M.A. Grube

4.80

Format: None pages, Paperback

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4. The Brothers Karamazov

By: Fyodor Dostoevsky , Richard Pevear , Larissa Volokhonsky

4.37

Format: 796 pages, Paperback

The Brothers Karamazov is a murder mystery, a courtroom drama, and an exploration of erotic rivalry… read more

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"How good life is when one does something good and just!"

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

"Forgive me... for my love - for ruining you with my love."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

"Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared to love in dreams."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

"What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

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5. On Christian Doctrine

By: Augustine of Hippo , D.W. Robertson Jr.

3.25

Format: None pages, Paperback

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6. Between Two Fires

By: Christopher Buehlman

4.27

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

The year is 1348. Thomas, a disgraced knight, has found a young girl alone in a dead Norman village… read more

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"The only thing I say to God is my daughter's names; and it is not a prayer, it's a rebuke."

-Christopher Buehlman, Between Two Fires

"He was being kissed now by his own mouth, not as lovers kiss, with tongues, but as true lovers kiss, sharing breath."

-Christopher Buehlman, Between Two Fires

"A dark-haired little boy just in pants stood bewildered near the blaze, saying, as if there had been some mistake, "We live here. We live here."

-Christopher Buehlman, Between Two Fires

"But it will be harder for you if you remember. Love is always harder. Love means weathering blows for another’s sake and not counting them. Love is loss of self, loss of other, and faith in the death…"

-Christopher Buehlman, Between Two Fires

7. The Spiritual Combat

By: None , Lorenzo Scupoli , None , None

3.54

Format: 317 pages,

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8. Death Comes for the Archbishop

By: Willa Cather

3.67

Format: None pages, Paperback

There is something epic--and almost mythic--about this sparsely beautiful novel by Willa Cather, al… read more

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9. The Song At The Scaffold

By: Gertrud von le Fort

3.97

Format: 649 pages, Paperback

Gertrud Von Le Fort wrote The Song at the Scaffoldin 1931, five years after converting to the Catho… read more

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10. The Four Cardinal Virtues

By: Josef Pieper

4.08

Format: None pages, Paperback

In The Four Cardinal Virtues, Josef Pieper delivers a stimulating quartet of essays on the four car… read more

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11. Leisure: The Basis Of Culture

By: Josef Pieper

4.32

Format: 210 pages, Paperback

One of the most important philosophy titles published in the twentieth century, Josef Pieper's Leis… read more

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12. 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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13. 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)

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14. Children of Dune (Dune, #3)

By: Frank Herbert

3.96

Format: 609 pages, Paperback

Book three in Frank Herbert's magnificent Dune Chronicles--one of the most significant sagas in the… read more

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"Every judgment teeters on the brink of error,"

-Frank Herbert, Children of Dune (Dune, #3)

"Most deadly errors arise from obsolete assumptions."

-Frank Herbert, Children of Dune (Dune, #3)

"The gift of words is the gift of deception and illusion."

-Frank Herbert, Children of Dune (Dune, #3)

"The joy of living, its beauty is all bound up in the fact that life can surprise you."

-Frank Herbert, Children of Dune (Dune, #3)

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15. Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder

By: Evelyn Waugh

4.00

Format: 452 pages, Paperback

An alternative cover for this ISBN can be found here. The most nostalgic and reflective of Evely… read more

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"Here my last love had died."

-Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder

"No one is ever holy without suffering."

-Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder

"I had been there before; I knew all about it."

-Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder

"So through a world of piety I made my way to Sebastian."

-Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder

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16. 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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17. Why Liberalism Failed

By: Patrick J. Deneen

3.86

Format: 248 pages, Hardcover

Has liberalism failed because it has succeeded? Of the three dominant ideologies of the twentieth c… read more

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"Individualism and statism advance together, always mutually supportive, and always at the expense of lived and vital relations that stand in contrast to both the starkness of the autonomous individua…"

-Patrick J. Deneen, Why Liberalism Failed

"Rather than promoting unrealistic standards for behavior - especially self-limitation - that could at best be unreliably achieved, Machiavelli propsed grounding a political philosophy upon readily ob…"

-Patrick J. Deneen, Why Liberalism Failed

"One of the main goals of the expansion of commerce is the liberation of embedded individuals from their traditional ties and relationships. The liberal state serves not only the reactive function of …"

-Patrick J. Deneen, Why Liberalism Failed

"A main agent of that liberation becomes commerce, the expansion of opportunities and materials by which not only to realize existing desires but even to create new ones we did not know we had. The st…"

-Patrick J. Deneen, Why Liberalism Failed

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18. Ordered by Love: An Introduction to John Duns Scotus

By: Thomas M. Ward

4.41

Format: 174 pages, Paperback

John Duns Scotus (1265-1308), beatified by Pope St. John Paul II in 1993, is widely recognized as o… read more

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19. The Metaphysical Thought of Thomas Aquinas: From Finite Being to Uncreated Being (Monographs of the Society for Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy, 1)

By: John F. Wippel

4.45

Format: 630 pages, Paperback

Written by a highly respected scholar of Thomas Aquinas's writings, this volume offers a comprehens… read more

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20. Real Essentialism

By: David S. Oderberg

4.33

Format: 332 pages, Hardcover

Real Essentialism presents a comprehensive defence of neo-Aristotelian essentialism. Do objects hav… read more

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21. A Preface to Metaphysics: Seven Lectures on Being (Select Bibliographies Reprint Series)

By: Jacques Maritain

4.28

Format: 142 pages, Hardcover

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge … read more

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Dead Souls

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3.98

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