Early Christian Lives
10 best books like Early Christian Lives (Carolinne White): Brideshead Revisited, The Elements of Style, On the Incarnation, The New American Bible, The Sayings of the Desert Fathers: The Alphabetical Collection (Cistercian studies 59), Collected Ancient Greek Novels, On God and Christ, The Five Theological Orations and Two Letters to Cledonius: St. Gregory of Nazianzus, The Practice of Magical Evocation, The History of the Church: From Christ to Constantine, Crone's Book of Magical Words
| 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...
| Author | William Strunk Jr. |
| ISBN | 0205313426 |
This book is good for the following things:
1. Propping up a short table leg
2. Lining a bird cage
3. Building a fire
4. Using as a coaster for cold drinks
I devoted some of my grammar thesis to criticizing this book, and it was time well spent.
Geoff...
| 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...
| Author | Anonymous |
| ISBN | 0529064847 |
Uniquely American, this popular translation is the easiest to understand Catholic edition of the Bible. This modern translation was prepared by over 50 scholars to capture the thought and individual style of the inspired writers while still making this translation easy to use for all ages.The New...
The Sayings of the Desert Fathers: The Alphabetical Collection (Cistercian studies 59)
| Author | Benedicta Ward |
| ISBN | 0879079592 |
`Give me a word, Father', visitors to early desert monks asked. The responses of these pioneer ascetics were remembered and in the fourth century written down in Coptic, Syriac, Greek, and later Latin. Their Sayings were collected, in this case in the alphabetical order of the monks and nuns who uttered...
| Author | Bryan P. Reardon |
| ISBN | 0520043065 |
Prose fiction, although not always associated with classical antiquity, did in fact flourish in the early Roman Empire, not only in realistic Latin novels but also and indeed principally in the Greek ideal romance of love and adventure to which they are related. Popular in the Renaissance, these stories...
| Author | Gregory of Nazianzus |
| ISBN | 0881412406 |
Gregory of Nazianzus, "The Theologian," was recognized among the Cappadocian Fathers as a peculiarly vivid and quotable exponent of the doctrine of God in Trinity. A brilliant orator and accomplished poet, he placed before the Church his interpretation of the sublime mystery of the God revealed...
| Author | Franz Bardon |
| ISBN | 1885928130 |
The second book presents the next stages of magical development. Detailed descriptions for evocation of beings from the spheres surrounding us. The aspirant learns how everything is possible through the appropriate spiritual laws and powers.Part I: magical aids and their uses: the circle, the...
| Author | Eusebius |
| ISBN | 0140445358 |
Eusebius's 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....
Crone's Book of Magical Words
| Author | Valerie Worth |
| ISBN | 1567188257 |
Crone's Book of Magical Words (previously published as The Crone's Book of Words) by Valerie Worth is the book you've been waiting for! In its pages are over 125 spells, incantations, and charms. If you can think of a purpose for a spell, it's probably in this book. Need a spell to summon a ghost? Or perhaps...
| Author | Origen |
| ISBN | 0844626856 |
s/t: Being Koetschau's Text of the De Principiis Translated into English Together with an Introduction & Notes
The Father
Christ
The Holy Spirit
Loss or falling away
Rational natures
The end or consummation
Things corporeal & incorporeal
The angels
The...
| Author | Noam Chomsky |
| ISBN | 1852421177 |
At the centre of pratically every major debate over America?s role in the world, one finds Noam Chomsky?s ideas - sometimes attacked, sometimes studiously ignored, but always a powerful presence. Drawing from his published and unpublished work, The Chomsky Reader reveals the awesome range of this...
Early Christian Writings: The Apostolic Fathers
| Author | Maxwell Staniforth |
| ISBN | 0140444750 |
Letters and small-scale theological treatises giving a rich and powerful articulation of the Christian faith.
The writings in this volume shed a glimmer of light, in an otherwise dark period, on the emerging traditions and organizations of the infant Church. They are a selection from a group...
