Guide to Thomas Aquinas

7 best books like Guide to Thomas Aquinas (Josef Pieper): Orthodoxy, The Power and the Glory, Story of a Soul: The Autobiography of St. Therese of Lisieux, God Is Love: Deus Caritas Est, Manalive, The Great Medieval Heretics: Five Centuries of Religious Dissent, The Moral Basis of a Backward Society

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...

The Power and the Glory

Author	Graham Greene
ISBN	0142437301

In a poor, remote section of Southern Mexico, the paramilitary group, the Red Shirts have taken control. God has been outlawed, and the priests have been systematically hunted down and killed. Now, the last priest is on the run. Too human for heroism, too humble for martyrdom, the nameless little worldly...

Story of a Soul: The Autobiography of St. Therese of Lisieux

Author	Thérèse de Lisieux
ISBN	0935216588

I can't remember the first time I read this but I think it was in high school. Dear St. Thérèse was my Confirmation saint so I wanted to read her autobiography. I remember being blown away by her simple and yet powerful approach to sanctity. It IS the Gospel -- so gentle, humble, meek and Christian -- and...

God Is Love: Deus Caritas Est

Author	Benedict XVI
ISBN	1574557580

In today's high-tech, fast-paced world, love is often portrayed as being separate from Church teaching. With his first encyclical, Pope Benedict XVI hopes to overturn that perception and describe the essential place of love in the life of the Church. The Holy Father explains the various dimensions...

Manalive

Author	G.K. Chesterton
ISBN	0486414051

Perhaps the most light-hearted of all Chesterton's "serious" works, Manalive pits a group of disillusioned young people against Mr. Innocent Smith, a bubbly, high-spirited gentleman who literally falls into their midst. Later accused of murder and denounced for philandering everywhere he goes,...

The Great Medieval Heretics: Five Centuries of Religious Dissent

Author	Michael Frassetto
ISBN	1933346124

More than perhaps any other time, the average person of the European middle ages found their identity bound up in religious and moral norms. In this book, Michael Frassetto discusses what can happen when some thinkers pushed the boundaries of traditional religious understanding, and were eventually...

The Moral Basis of a Backward Society

Author	Edward C. Banfield
ISBN	0029015103

At first I wasn't sure about reading a book describing the problems challenging the democratic process of small towns in Southern Italy in the 1950s. But the more I delved in this book, the more similarities I could observe with the problems challenging the democratic process of my country: Malta. The...