Manalive
10 best books like Manalive (G.K. Chesterton): Common Sense 101: Lessons from Chesterton, The Place of the Lion, The Mind of the Maker, The Supper of the Lamb: A Culinary Reflection, On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature, Solomon Among the Postmoderns, Through New Eyes: Developing a Biblical View of the World, An Essay in Aid of a Grammar of Assent, Planet Narnia: The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of C.S. Lewis, Angels in the Architecture: A Protestant Vision for Middle Earth
Common Sense 101: Lessons from Chesterton
| Author | Dale Ahlquist |
| ISBN | 1586171399 |
Dale Ahlquist, the President of the American Chesterton Society, and author of G. K. Chesterton -The Apostle of Common Sense, presents a book of wonderful insights on how to look at the whole world through the eyes of Chesterton. Since, as he says, Chesterton wrote about everything, there is an ocean...
| Author | Charles Williams |
| ISBN | 1573831085 |
As an author, Charles Williams writes stiffly, his stories are strange enough to be nearly inaccessible, and his characters who find clarity start speaking in a way which makes The Fairie Queene look folksy. All that being true, I love this man. After finishing this one I slept not just better, but more...
| Author | Dorothy L. Sayers |
| ISBN | 0060670770 |
This classic, with a new introduction by Madeleine L'Engle, is by turns an entrancing mediation on language; a piercing commentary on the nature of art and why so much of what we read, hear, and see falls short; and a brilliant examination of the fundamental tenets of Christianity. The Mind of the Maker...
| Author | Robert Farrar Capon |
| ISBN | 0375760563 |
From a passionate and talented chef who also happens to be an Episcopalian priest comes this surprising and thought-provoking treatise on everything from prayer to poetry to puff pastry. In The Supper of the Lamb, Capon talks about festal and ferial cooking, emerging as an inspirational voice extolling...
| Author | C.S. Lewis |
| ISBN | 0156027682 |
“In life and art both, as it seems to me, we are always trying to catch in our net of successive moments something that is not successive . . . But I think it is sometimes done—or very, very nearly done—in stories.”
C.S. Lewis is widely known for his fiction, especially his stories of science...
| Author | Peter J. Leithart |
| ISBN | 1587432048 |
In Ecclesiastes, Solomon states that "all is vapor" and describes humans as trying to "shepherd the wind." In "Solomon among the Postmoderns," author Peter J. Leithart uses these claims, as well as the entire book of Ecclesiastes, to show how Solomon resonated with postmodernism.
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This book sets forth the Biblical understanding of the world, and then traces the development of that world through the successive "covenants" of the Bible—each new covenant transforming the previous one, bringing forth "a new world." Each of these "worlds" was given a symbolic model appropriate...
| Author | John Henry Newman |
| ISBN | 0268010005 |
This classic of Christian apologetics seeks to persuade the skeptic that there are good reasons to believe in God even though it is impossible to understand the Deity fully. First written over a century ago, the Grammar of Assent speaks as powerfully to us today as it did to its first readers. Because...
| Author | Michael Ward |
| ISBN | 0195313879 |
For over half a century, scholars have laboured to show that C. S. Lewis's famed but apparently disorganised Chronicles of Narnia have an underlying symbolic coherence, pointing to such possible unifying themes as the seven sacraments, the seven deadly sins, and the seven books of Spenser's Faerie...
| Author | Douglas M. Jones III |
| ISBN | 1885767404 |
Christianity presents a glorious vision of culture, a vision overflowing with truth, beauty, and goodness. It's a vision that stands in stark conflict with the anemic modern (and postmodern) perspectives that dominate contemporary life. Medieval Christianity began telling a beautiful story...
| Author | George MacDonald |
| ISBN | 1406923397 |
Follow Sir Gibbie on his adventures through the moors of Scotland's Highlands more than a century ago. Having no mother and an alcoholic father, Gibbie must survive on the streets as a child unable to read or speak. See how this boy wins the hearts of his neighbors and offers what little he has to help others....
Wisdom and Innocence: A Life of G.K. Chesterton
| Author | Joseph Pearce |
| ISBN | 0898707005 |
Described by his critics as 'naive', by his wife as the 'jolly journalist' and by Dorothy L. Sayers as a 'beneficent bomb', Chesterton is one of the most enigmatic figures of the early twentieth century. On the 60th anniversary of his death and drawing on much previously unpublished material, Pearce's...
| Author | Søren Kierkegaard |
| ISBN | 0691020639 |
Of the many works he wrote during 1848, his "richest & most fruitful year," Kierkegaard specified "Practice in Christianity" as "the most perfect & truest thing." In his reflections on such topics as Christ's invitation to the burdened, the imitatio Christi, the possibility of offense &...
| Author | Robert Hugh Benson |
| ISBN | 0911845356 |
Perhaps the best known of Msgr. Benson s works, this novel has been reprinted many times since its publication in 1912. The drama and the characters therein have their basis in the real life account of a Catholic family, and of the sufferings of Catholics in general, under Elizabeth I of England. In this...
| Author | P.G. Wodehouse |
| ISBN | 0393345572 |
Recipe for a Wodehouse Novel
1. Take one English country house.
2. Insert the following, stirring gently: (a) Eccentric or curmudgeonly peer (b) devoted/ overbearing wife/ sister (c) a couple of sundered hearts and (optional) (d) domestic help with their own affairs of the heart....
| Author | Douglas Wilson |
| ISBN | 1591280982 |
Winner of the 2012 Christianity Today Best Fiction Award
Evangellyfish is a ruthless, grimly amused, and above all honest look at one of the darkest corners in the western world. Douglas Wilson, a pastor of more than thirty years, paints a vivid and painful picture of evangelical boomchurch...
