Apologia Pro Vita Sua (A Defense of One's Life)

9 best books like Apologia Pro Vita Sua (A Defense of One's Life) (John Henry Newman): Brideshead Revisited, On the Incarnation, City of God, Orthodoxy, A Summa of the Summa: The Essential Philosophical Passages of St Thomas Aquinas' Summa Theologica, Heretics, The Spirit of the Liturgy, Letter to a Suffering Church: A Bishop Speaks on the Sexual Abuse Crisis, Catholicism and Fundamentalism

Brideshead Revisited

Author	Evelyn Waugh
ISBN	0316926345

The most nostalgic and reflective of Evelyn Waugh's novels, Brideshead Revisited looks back to the golden age before the Second World War. It tells the story of Charles Ryder's infatuation with the Marchmains and the rapidly-disappearing world of privilege they inhabit. Enchanted first by Sebastian...

On the Incarnation

Author	Athanasius of Alexandria
ISBN	0913836400

I was pleased to find On the Incarnation remarkably fresh and engaging, still fierce and still passionate too. Such is rarely the case with works of theology, particularly when orthodoxy has robbed them even of the novelty of heresy, for dry-as-dust disquisitions on settled questions often summon...

City of God

Author	Augustine of Hippo
ISBN	0140448942

This is a truly COLOSSAL book!

You know, there are two ways of getting answers in the world... there’s getting the world’s answers (and that’s sometimes doublethink) and there’s getting TRANSCENDENTAL answers!

Sub specie aeternitatis, transcendental answers are the...

Orthodoxy

Author

G.K. Chesterton

This book is meant to be a companion to "Heretics," and to put the positive side in addition to the negative. Many critics complained of the book because it merely criticised current philosophies without offering any alternative philosophy. This book is an attempt to answer the challenge. It is the...

A Summa of the Summa: The Essential Philosophical Passages of St Thomas Aquinas' Summa Theologica

Author

Peter Kreeft

QUESTION 1. Of the Summa Theologica

ARTICLE 1. Whether One Should Read the Summa Theologica?

Objection 1. The Summa Theologica was written over 700 years ago (1265-1274). Thus, whatever philosophy is contained in this book is long outdated. Further, the state of scientific knowledge...

Heretics

Author	G.K. Chesterton
ISBN	0486449149

G. K. Chesterton, the "Prince of Paradox," is at his witty best in this collection of twenty essays and articles from the turn of the twentieth century. Focusing on "heretics" — those who pride themselves on their superiority to Christian views — Chesterton appraises prominent figures who fall...

The Spirit of the Liturgy

Author	Benedict XVI
ISBN	0898707846

Considered by Ratzinger devotees as his greatest work on the Liturgy, this profound and beautifully written treatment of the great prayer of the Church will help readers rediscover the Liturgy in all its hidden spiritual wealth and transcendent grandeur as the very center of our Christian life. In...

Letter to a Suffering Church: A Bishop Speaks on the Sexual Abuse Crisis

Author

Robert Barron

The sexual abuse scandal has gripped the Catholic Church for the past thirty years, and continues to wreak havoc even today.

It's been a diabolical masterpiece, one that has compromised the work of the Church in every way and has left countless lives in ruin.

Many Catholics are understandably...

Catholicism and Fundamentalism

Author	Karl Keating
ISBN	0898701775

Karl Keating defends Catholicism from fundamentalist attacks and explains why fundamentalism has been so successful in converting Romanists. After showing the origins of fundamentalism, he examines representative anti-Catholic groups and presents their arguments in their own words. His rebuttals...