Proslogion
10 best books like Proslogion (Anselm of Canterbury): The New Organon, Parmenides, Selected Writings, Sic Et Non: A Critical Edition, Psychology: The Briefer Course, The Geometry of René Descartes: with a Facsimile of the First Edition, Epitome of Copernican Astronomy and Harmonies of the World, Western Europe in the Middle Ages 300-1475, The Age of Reform, 1250-1550: An Intellectual and Religious History of Late Medieval and Reformation Europe, Bonaventure: The Soul's Journey into God, the Tree of Life, the Life of St. Francis (Classics of Western Spirituality)
| Author | Francis Bacon |
| ISBN | 0521564832 |
Since I’ve lately read Aristotle’s original, I thought I’d go ahead and read Bacon’s New Organon. The title more or less says it all. For this book is an attempt to recast the method of the sciences in a better mold. Whereas Aristotle spends pages and pages enumerating the various types of syllogisms,...
This is an English translation of one of the more challenging and enigmatic of Plato's dialogues between Socrates and Parmenides and Zeno of Elea, that begins with Zeno defending his treatise of Parmenidean monism against those partisans of plurality.
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| Author | Hildegard of Bingen |
| ISBN | 0140436049 |
Benedictine nun, poet and musician, Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179) was one of the most remarkable figures of the Middle Ages. She undertook preaching tours throughout the German empire at the age of sixty, and was consulted not only by her religious contemporaries but also by kings and emperors,...
Sic Et Non: A Critical Edition
| Author | Pierre Abélard |
| ISBN | 0226000664 |
Ne au Pallet, pres de Nantes, en 1079, mort le 21 avril 1142, Pierre Abelard se dresse dans la memoire populaire comme une figure legendaire, celebre par ses amours tumultueuses et sa passion pour Heloise. Cependant, il est aussi ce theologien qui soutenait que les dogmes peuvent etre presentes sous...
| Author | William James |
| ISBN | 0486416046 |
William James’s monumental Principles of Psychology has long been on my to-read list. But I have a nasty habit of letting books scare me; and a 1,400-page textbook from 1890 was sufficiently intimidating to make me put it off indefinitely.
To warm up to the task, I decided to read a couple...
| Author | René Descartes |
| ISBN | 0486600688 |
This is an unabridged republication of the definitive English translation of one of the very greatest classics of science. Originally published in 1637, it has been characterized as "the greatest single step ever made in the progress of the exact sciences" (John Stuart Mill); as a book which "remade...
| Author | Johannes Kepler |
| ISBN | 1573920363 |
The brilliant German mathematician Johannes Kepler (1571-1630), one of the founders of modern astronomy, revolutionized the Copernican heliocentric theory of the universe with his three laws of motion: that the planets move not in circular but elliptical orbits, that their speed is greatest when...
| Author | Sidney Painter |
| ISBN | 0070648433 |
(Fourth Edition, copywrite 1983)
by Brian Tierney and Sidney Painter
This is the most boring book I ever tried to read. I have plodded through it for almost a year because I wanted to learn the subject matter, but with a ho-hum presentation of the Magna Carta story at about the two-thirds...
| Author | Steven E. Ozment |
| ISBN | 0300027605 |
“Ozment’s masterly synthesis of the intellectual and religious history of the period 1250-1550 clarifies the impact of late medieval ideas on early modern society. Its appeal derives from its breadth of scholarship and clarity of style. Ozment reviews the current state of research on late...
| Author | Bonaventure |
| ISBN | 0809121212 |
This is how I imagine spiritual theology would be if it were written by an on-fire, meditative, deeply orthodox and copiously learned systematic theologian who was also a quantum physicist and complex mathematician who enjoyed contemplating the hypostatic union and the triune interrelationships,...
| Author | Carter Lindberg |
| ISBN | 1557865752 |
This narrative description and analysis of the European Reformations of the sixteenth century begins with a chapter on the history and historiography of Reformation scholarship and concludes with an extended reflection on the Reformations' religious, social, and cultural legacies. The storyline...
| Author | Basil the Great |
| ISBN | 0913836745 |
St Basil, much like St Gregory of Nazianzen, begins his work with a dense discussion of the terminology. It is easy for today's reader to miss what is important in the debate. St Basil spends the first few chapters sparring over the use of prepositions as they are applied to Father, Son, and Holy Spirit....
| Author | Étienne Gilson |
| ISBN | 0268008019 |
In this final edition of his classic study of St. Thomas Aquinas, Etienne Gilson presents the sweeping range and organic unity of Thomistic philosophical thought. Gilson demonstrates that Aquinas drew from a wide spectrum of sources in the development of his thought—from Aristotle to the Arabic...
| Author | Gregory of Nyssa |
| ISBN | 0809121123 |
St. Gregory of Nyssa This great spiritual master of the fourth century was born as the general persecution of Christians was ending. One of the Greek Cappadocian Fathers (the other two were Gregory's brother, St. Basil the Great, and their mutual friend, St. Gregory Nazianzen), Gregory has come to...
| Author | Erwin Panofsky |
| ISBN | 0970821654 |
Cada vez tengo más claro que los buenos libros de historia son aquellos que carecen de toda cientificidad. Absueltos de ésta, quedan dos géneros posibles: la historia como discurso estético y la historia como discurso político. El segundo suele ser execrable por su fogosidad y su utilitarismo,...
| Author | Augustine of Hippo |
| ISBN | 0911782966 |
Upon reading the first 8 books of Augustin’s ‘On The Trinity’ it’s hard to know what I have learned. In many ways I may ask ‘have I been left with more questions then answers? At times reading this work was frustrating and I found myself saying out loud “What on earth are you talking about you...
Church Dogmatics, 14 Vols
| Author | Karl Barth |
| ISBN | 0567058093 |
Described by Pope Pius XII as the most important theologian since Thomas Aquinas, the Swiss pastor and theologian, Karl Barth, continues to be a major influence on students, scholars and preachers today.
Barth's theology found its expression mainly through his closely reasoned fourteen-part...
| Author | Pope Gregory I |
| ISBN | 0881413186 |
This manual for pastors by St Gregory the Great is very, very good. I regret that I didn't read it while I was in seminary because it would have had a significant impact on my training and formation.
This is the most influential ancient work written specifically for pastors regarding their preaching,...
| Author | Epictetus |
| ISBN | 0199595186 |
'About things that are within our power and those that are not.' Epictetus' Discourses have been the most widely read and influential of all writings of Stoic philosophy, from antiquity onwards. They set out the core ethical principles of Stoicism in a form designed to help people put them into practice...
| Author | Bruno Snell |
| ISBN | 0486242641 |
The present translation is based on the second edition of Die Entdeckung des Geistes (Claassen und Goverts, Hamburg, 1948), with the addition of the essay which here appears as Ch. 7: Human Knowledge and Divine Knowledge.
In this immensely erudite book, German classicist Bruno Snell traces...
| Author | Aristotle |
| ISBN | 1425000878 |
With this relatively minor work of proto-science, my voyage through Aristotle’s corpus continues.
Of Generation and Corruption is a very poor name for this work; a better one would be Of Coming-to-Be and Passing-Away. Those two terms capture what Aristotle is investigating: How does...
| Author | Joseph R. Strayer |
| ISBN | 0691121850 |
The modern state, however we conceive of it today, is based on a pattern that emerged in Europe in the period from 1100 to 1600. Inspired by a lifetime of teaching and research, On the Medieval Origins of the Modern State is a classic work on what is known about the early history of the European state. This...
| Author | Keith A. Mathison |
| ISBN | 0875523897 |
In this comprehensive book, Keith Mathison exposits Scripture passages from Genesis to Revelation, showing the victorious plan of God and the definite and progressive growth of His kingdom. God used this book to show me that His Word is not confusing or impossible to understand; that striving for...
