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10 best books like Saint Augustine (Garry Wills): Will: The Autobiography of G. Gordon Liddy, Augustine: A New Biography, Love and Saint Augustine, The Evolution of Medieval Thought, Introduction to the Hebrew Bible, Dante, The Norton Book of Classical Literature, Martin Luther, Paul: The Mind of the Apostle, Robert E. Lee

Will: The Autobiography of G. Gordon Liddy
AuthorG. Gordon Liddy
ISBN0312119151
From soldier to Washington insider; from a prisoner who preferred the walls of a prison rather than the betrayal of his principles; to a writer and top radio personality, G. Gordon Liddy is a hero to some, a villain to others, but always an enigma.

In 1980, G. Gordon Liddy shocked, surprised,...
Augustine: A New Biography
AuthorJames J. O'Donnell
ISBN0060535377
O'Donnell, provost at Georgetown University and editor of the definitive edition of Augustine's Confessions, is admirably qualified to chronicle the life of the man who wrote history's most famous autobiography. But in this book, suffused with the methods (though thankfully not the tortured vocabulary)...
Love and Saint Augustine
AuthorHannah Arendt
ISBN0226025977
Hannah Arendt began her scholarly career with an exploration of Saint Augustine's concept of caritas, or neighborly love, written under the direction of Karl Jaspers and the influence of Martin Heidegger. After her German academic life came to a halt in 1933, Arendt carried her dissertation into...
The Evolution of Medieval Thought
AuthorDavid Knowles
ISBN0582494265
A famous text with an introduction and commentary by Brooke and Luscombe. It reveals the connection between the thought of the Medieval Schools of philosophy and that of the Greek philosophers. The new edition has been fully revised, updated and corrected.

Preface to First Edition
Preface...
Introduction to the Hebrew Bible
AuthorJohn J. Collins
ISBN0800629914
In this balanced and thorough introduction to the Hebrew Bible, John J. Collins takes his students on a historical-critical journey through biblical texts. With an accessible yet authoritative tone, he identifies the complex ethical issues raised by the text and challenges his students to understand...
Dante
AuthorR.W.B. Lewis
ISBN0670899097
Only R.W.B. Lewis-the renowned biographer and author of The City of Florence-could write so insightfully about Dante Alighieri, Florence's famous son. In Dante he traces the life and complex development-emotional, artistic, philosophical-of this supreme poet-historian, from his wanderings...
The Norton Book of Classical Literature
AuthorBernard Knox
ISBN0393034267
Preface
Introduction
Greece
Homer
Hesiod
The archaic lyric & iambus
Archilochus (7th century B.C.)
Tyrtaeus (7th century B.C.)
Alcman (late 7th century B.C.)
Hipponax (middle 6th century B.C.)
Alcaeus (late 7th century-middle 6th century B.C.)...
Martin Luther
AuthorMartin E. Marty
ISBN0670032727
Martin Marty?professor, author, pastor, historian, and journalist?is, in Bill Moyers's words, ?the most influential interpreter of American religion.? In "Martin Luther" this man of unswerving faith, rooted in his own Lutheran tradition yet deeply committed to helping enrich a pluralist society,...
Paul: The Mind of the Apostle
AuthorA.N. Wilson
ISBN0393317609
It begins on the road to Damascus, in a moment graven on the consciousness of Western civilization. "Saul, Saul," asks the crucified Jesus of Nazareth, "why persecutest thou me?"

From this experience, and from the response of the Jewish merchant later known as Paul, springs the Christian...
Robert E. Lee
AuthorRoy Blount Jr.
ISBN0670032204
Iconic Virginian, brilliant general, and complex human being—it is this last facet of Robert E. Lee that is rarely seen. But now Roy Blount, Jr. combines acute character insight with lively storytelling and a full-hearted Southern directness to craft this unique, personal portrait.

Fascinated...
Joan of Arc
AuthorMary Gordon
ISBN0670885371
One would expect nothing less from Gordon (Spending) than a splendid, spare account of Joan's life -- and she delivers in this slender but satisfying account, a new entry in the Penguin Lives series. The facts of Joan of Arc's life are straightforward: she was born in 1412, in Domremy, France, to a peasant...
Augustine of Hippo: A Biography
AuthorPeter R.L. Brown
ISBN0520227573
This classic biography was first published thirty years ago and has since established itself as the standard account of Saint Augustine's life and teaching. The remarkable discovery recently of a considerable number of letters and sermons by Augustine has thrown fresh light on the first and last...
What Happened at Vatican II
AuthorJohn W. O'Malley
ISBN0674031695
During four years in session, Vatican Council II held television audiences rapt with its elegant, magnificently choreographed public ceremonies, while its debates generated front-page news on a near-weekly basis. By virtually any assessment, it was the most important religious event of the twentieth...
J.Hudson Taylor: A Man in Christ
AuthorRoger Steer
ISBN1850784086
I have read a number of biographies about Hudson Taylor but this is the first in a while. It provides a good overview of his life and ministry. The end of the book begins the description of the Boxer rebellion in the early 1900's during which many Protestant missionaries were martyred, although Taylor...
The Divine Milieu
AuthorPierre Teilhard de Chardin
ISBN0060937254
The essential companion to Pierre Teilhard de Chardin's The Phenomenom of Man, The Divine Milieu expands on the spiritual message so basic to his thought. He shows how man's spiritual life can become a participation in the destiny of the universe.

Teilhard de Chardin -- geologist, priest,...
A Concise History of the Catholic Church
AuthorThomas Bokenkotter
ISBN0385516134
Expanded and updated for the new millennium.

Covering the life of Christ, the election of Pope Benedict XVI, and everything in between, A Concise History of the Catholic Church has been one of the bestselling religious histories of the past two decades and a mainstay for scholars, students,...
The Great Medieval Heretics: Five Centuries of Religious Dissent
AuthorMichael Frassetto
ISBN1933346124
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 Popes Against the Jews: The Vatican's Role in the Rise of Modern Anti-Semitism
AuthorDavid I. Kertzer
ISBN0375706054
In this meticulously researched, unflinching, and reasoned study, National Book Award finalist David I. Kertzer presents shocking revelations about the role played by the Vatican in the development of modern anti-Semitism. Working in long-sealed Vatican archives, Kertzer unearths startling...
Barbarians to Angels: The Dark Ages Reconsidered
AuthorPeter S. Wells
ISBN0393060756
The barbarians who destroyed the glory that was Rome demolished civilization along with it, and for the next four centuries the peasants and artisans of Europe barely held on. Random violence, mass migration, disease, and starvation were the only way of life. This is the picture of the Dark Ages that...
The Age of the Spirit: How the Ghost of an Ancient Controversy Is Shaping the Church
AuthorPhyllis A. Tickle
ISBN0801014808
A thousand years ago, the church experienced a time of tremendous upheaval called the Great Schism. The one faith became two churches, East and West, and the course of world history was forever changed. And it all swirled around one Latin word in the Nicene Creed, filioque, that indicated the Holy Spirit...
A Marginal Jew: Rethinking the Historical Jesus, Volume I - The Roots of the Problem and the Person
AuthorJohn P. Meier
ISBN0385264259
This is John Meier's first (of five?) volume, examining the historic Jesus. The real Jesus may be someone different, but Meier does not approach this volume with faith and church tradition as reliable sources. In fact, the inside of the jacket cover describes the historic Jesus as one that could be agreed...
John Calvin--A Biography
AuthorThomas Henry Louis Parker
ISBN0664231810
John Calvin was one of the most important leaders of the sixteenth-century Protestant Reformation. In this revision of his major biography, T. H. L. Parker explores Calvin's achievement against the backdrop of the turbulent times in which he lived. With clear and concise explanations of Calvin's...
The Christians and the Fall of Rome (Great Ideas)
AuthorEdward Gibbon
ISBN0143036246
Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings...
Padre Pio: The True Story (Revised, Expanded)
AuthorC. Bernard Ruffin
ISBN0879736739
Intriguing, mysterious, and faithful are just a few words that describe this beloved Italian priest who bore the wounds of Christ. Up to the time of his death in 1968, Padre Pio had been receiving five thousand letters a month and thousands of visitors each year. Some were asking for physical ills to be...
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