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City Of God by St Augustine
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Category: Church Fathers | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
St Augustine, bishop of Hippo, was one of the central figures in the history of Christianity, and "City of God" is one of his greatest theological works. Written as an eloquent defence of the faith at a time when the Roman Empire was on the brink of collapse, it examines the ancient pagan religions of R ...Show more
Confessions by St Augustine; R S Pine-Coffin (Translated by)
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Category: Individual Biography | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
Augustine's Confessions might be one of the most profound Christian testimonies ever recorded. Not necessarily because Augustine led an unusual life or faced intriguing circumstances which had to be overcome; because, in reality, the actual events of his life were relatively less than extraordinary. Aug ...Show more
Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather
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Category: Literature | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Two French priests, friends since childhood, are sent to the newly created diocese of New Mexico. Life there is hard and frequently dangerous. Journeys between parishes are beset by the perils of bandits and storms. The people do not always want to hear the priests' message. But through their many years ...Show more
Early Christian Writings - The Apostolic Fathers by Various authors; Staniforth Maxwell (Translated by); Andrew Louth (Revised translation, Introduction & Notes by)
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Category: History | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Focuses on traditions and organisation of the infant church, during an otherwise little-known period of its development. This title presents an account of the early Church and outlines a form of early Christianity drawing on the theology and traditions of its parent religion, Judaism. Contents: Firs ...Show more
Fear and Trembling: Dialectical Lyric by Johannes De Silentio by Soren Kierkegaard; Alastair Hannay (Translation by)
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
In Fear and Trembling Kierkegaard, writing under the pseudonym Johannes de silentio, expounds his personal view of religion through a discussion of the scene in Genesis in which Abraham prepares to sacrifice his son at God's command. Believing Abraham's unreserved obedience to be the essential leap of f ...Show more
Men at Arms by Evelyn Waugh
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Guy Crouchback, determined to get into the war, takes a commission in the Royal Corps of Halberdiers. His spirits high, he sees all the trimmings but none of the action. And his first campaign, an abortive affair on the West African coastline, ends with an escapade which seriously blots his Halberdier c ...Show more
Pensees by Blaise Pascal
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Blaise Pascal, the precociously brilliant contemporary of Descartes, was a gifted mathematician and physicist, but it is his unfinished apologia for the Christian religion upon which his reputation now rests. "The Pensees" is a collection of philosohical fragments, notes and essays in which Pascal explo ...Show more
Personal Writings - Reminiscences, Spiritual Diary, Select Letters including the Text of The Spiritual Exercises by St Ignatius of Loyola; Joseph A Munitiz & Philip Endean (Translated by)
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Category: Ignatian Spirituality | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
One of the key figures in Christian history, St. Ignatius of Loyola (c. 1491-1556) was a passionate and unique spiritual thinker and visionary. The works gathered here provide a first-hand, personal introduction to this remarkable character: a man who turned away from the Spanish nobility to create the ...Show more
Poetics by Aristotle
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Poeticsby Aristotleely, Plot, Character, Diction, Thought, Spectacle, Song. Two of the parts constitute the medium of imitation, one the manner, and three the objects of imitation. And these complete the list. These elements have been employed, we may say, by the poets to a man; in fact, every play cont ...Show more
The Corner That Held Them by Sylvia Townsend Warner
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Category: Literature | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
'One of the great British novels of the twentieth century: a narrative of extraordinary reach, power and beauty' SARAH WATERS In memory of the wife who had once dishonoured and always despised him, Brian de Retteville founded Oby - a twelfth-century convent in a hidden corner of Norfolk. Two centuries l ...Show more
The Desert Fathers - Sayings of the Early Christian Monks by Benedicta Ward
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Category: Monasticism | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
The desert fathers provided the inspiration for Christian spirituality throughout the Middle Ages and beyond. The men and women who first embraced the life of solitude in the deserts of Egypt, Palestine and Syria were seldom clerics or scholars. Yet these uneducated peasants, shepherds, itinerant trader ...Show more
The History of the Church from Christ to Constantine by Eusebius; G. A. Williamson (Translated by); Andrew Louth (Revised, Edited & Introduction by)
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Category: History | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Eusebius' account is the only surviving historical record of the Church during its crucial first 300 years. Bishop Eusebius, a learned scholar who lived most of his life in Caesarea in Palestine, broke new ground in writing the History and provided a model for all later ecclesiastical historians. In tra ...Show more