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10 best books like The Girard Reader (René Girard): The Journal of John Woolman, Poetic Knowledge: The Recovery of Education, The Drama of Atheist Humanism, On Poetry And Poets, Representative Men: Seven Lectures, Economy of Desire, God at Work: Your Christian Vocation in All of Life, Solomon Among the Postmoderns, The Meaning of the City, Philosophy and Theology

The Journal of John Woolman
AuthorJohn Woolman
ISBN1432607790
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving,...
Poetic Knowledge: The Recovery of Education
AuthorJames S. Taylor
ISBN0791435865
This book rediscovers a traditional mode of knowledge that remains viable today. Contrasted to the academic and cultural fads often based on the scientific methodology of the Cartesian legacy, or any number of trendy experiments in education, Poetic Knowledge returns to the freshness and importance...
The Drama of Atheist Humanism
AuthorHenri de Lubac
Henri de Lubac, S.J. De Lubac traces the origin of 19th century attempts to construct a humanism apart from God, the sources of contemporary atheism which purports to have "moved beyond God." The three persons he focuses on are Feuerbach, who greatly influenced Marx; Nietzsche, who represents nihilism;...
On Poetry And Poets
AuthorT.S. Eliot
ISBN0571089836
My Ph.D advisor Leonard Unger made his career on the first book studying TS Eliot's verse, in 1947, and to the end of his life, as a scholar and wit, he returned to Eliot's subjects, like 17C wits (and Shakespeare) as well as to Eliot himself, in Eliot's Compound Ghost, which strongly influenced my own dissertation,...
Representative Men: Seven Lectures
AuthorRalph Waldo Emerson
ISBN0812970055
Introduction by Brenda Wineapple

In 1845 Ralph Waldo Emerson began a series of lectures and writings in which he limned six figures who embodied the principles and aspirations of a still-young American republic. Emerson offers timeless meditations on the value of individual greatness,...
Economy of Desire
AuthorDaniel M. Bell Jr.
ISBN0801035732
In this addition to the award-winning Church and Postmodern Culture series, respected theologian Daniel Bell compares and contrasts capitalism and Christianity, showing how Christianity provides resources for faithfully navigating the postmodern global economy. Bell approaches capitalism...
God at Work: Your Christian Vocation in All of Life
AuthorGene Edward Veith Jr.
ISBN1581344031
When you understand it properly, the doctrine of vocation—"doing everything for God's glory"—is not a platitude or an outdated notion. This principle that we vaguely apply to our lives and our work is actually the key to Christian ethics, to influencing our culture for Christ, and to infusing...
Solomon Among the Postmoderns
AuthorPeter J. Leithart
ISBN1587432048
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.

Exploring...
The Meaning of the City
AuthorJacques Ellul
ISBN0802815553
Jacques Ellul, a member of the Law Faculty at the University of Bordeaux, is increasingly being recognized as a brilliant and penetrating commentator on the relationship between theology and sociology. In The Meaning of the City he presents what he finds in the Bible – a sophisticated, coherent...
Philosophy and Theology
AuthorJohn D. Caputo
ISBN0687331269
A highly engaging essay that will draw students into a conversation about the vital relationship between philosophy and theology.

In this clear, concise, and brilliantly engaging essay, renowned philosopher and theologian John D. Caputo addresses the great and classical philosophical...
The Essential Mcluhan
AuthorMarshall McLuhan
ISBN0465019951
Marshall McLuhan’s insights are fresher and more applicable today than when he first announced them to a startled world. A whole new generation is turning to his work to understand a global village made real by the information superhighway and the overwhelming challenge of electronic transformation....
An Ethic for Christians and Other Aliens in a Strange Land
AuthorWilliam Stringfellow
ISBN1592448747
Identifying America as a fallen nation with the parable of Babylon in the Book of Revelation — not with Jerusalem the holy nation, as Americans are naively and vainly wont to do — Dr. Stringfellow issues a trenchant indictment of our society.

Shockingly prophetic, dismaying, and sobering,...
A Third Testament: A Modern Pilgrim Explores the Spiritual Wanderings of Augustine, Blake, Pascal, Tolstoy, Bonhoeffer, Kierkegaard, and Dostoevsky
AuthorMalcolm Muggeridge
ISBN1570755329
I made a mistake when ordering this book, I wanted to read something of Muggeridge and this popped up first on the Amazon search. My mistake was ordering it without reading the preview, this is not a collection of Muggeridge's thoughts on his spiritual journey but rather brief biographies of seven of...
The Message in the Bottle: How Queer Man Is, How Queer Language Is, and What One Has to Do with the Other
AuthorWalker Percy
ISBN0312254016
despite the upchuck-inducing cover of the edition that comes up on goodreads, this is a good book, indeed a good read.

while he's more famous for his novels, i enjoy his essays more. in his novels he always strains for opportunities to wax philosophical and in his essays he finally has free reign...
History in English Words
AuthorOwen Barfield
ISBN0940262118
Owen Barfield's original and thought-provoking works over three-quarters of a century made him a legendary cult figure. History in English Words, his classic historical excursion through the English language, is now back in print after five years.

This popular book provides a brief, brilliant...
The Philosophy of Civilization: The Decay & the Restoration of Civilization/Civilization & Ethics
AuthorAlbert Schweitzer
ISBN0879754036
Albert Schweitzer's social and ethical philosophy is best expressed in The Philosophy of Civilization. Not widely available in recent years, this edition will give contemporary readers the opportunity to discover his prophetic thought.

In Book I, The Decay and Restoration of Civilization,...
The Idea of Decline in Western History
AuthorArthur Herman
ISBN0684827913
From Nazism to the Sixties counter-culture, from Britain's Fabian socialists to America's multiculturalists, and from Dracula and Freud to Robert Bly and Madonna, this work examines the idea of decline in Western history and sets out to explain how the conviction of civilization's inevitable end...
Paideia of God: & Other Essays on Education
AuthorDouglas Wilson
ISBN1885767595
And, you fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. (Ephesians 6:4) In this passage, Paul requires Christian fathers to provide their children with a "paideia of the Lord." To the ancient world, the boundaries of paideia were much wider than...
The Culture We Deserve
AuthorJacques Barzun
ISBN0819562378
I had no intention for things to work out like this, but The Culture We Deserve happens to be a perfect antidote to Conspicuous Consumption. It's happened time and again that I'll be reading a book that has an interesting theme, and then the next book I'm reading will be dealing with a similar theme, but...
The Mac is Not a Typewriter
AuthorRobin P. Williams
ISBN0201782634
One of the most popular Macintosh books ever written, The Mac is not a typewriter has been called the "Strunk and White of typography." Best-selling author Robin Williams's simple, logical principles for using type to produce beautiful, professional documents are as true now as they were when the...
I Only Say This Because I Love You: How the Way We Talk Can Make or Break Family Relationships Throughout Our Lives
AuthorDeborah Tannen
ISBN0679456015
Why does talk in families so often go in circles, leaving us tied up in knots? In this illuminating book, Deborah Tannen, the linguist and and bestselling author of You Just Don't Understand and many other books, reveals why talking to family members is so often painful and problematic even when we're...
How to Think Straight: An Introduction to Critical Reasoning
AuthorAntony Flew
ISBN1573922390
Practical reasoning and clear thinking are essential for everyone if we are to make sense of the information we receive each day. Being able to quickly know the difference between valid and invalid arguments, the contradictory versus the contrary, vagueness and ambiguity, contradiction and self-contradiction,...
The Authenticity Hoax: How We Get Lost Finding Ourselves
AuthorAndrew Potter
“A totally real, genuine, authentic book about why you shouldn’t believe any of those words. And it’s genuinely good.”
— Gregg Easterbrook, author of Sonic Boom

Exploring a number of trends in our popular culture—from Sarah Palin to Antiques Roadshow, organic food to the...
The Splendor of Truth
AuthorJohn Paul II
ISBN0819869643
"Chýba jej vraj láskavosť a milosrdenstvo. V skutočnosti sa však materské cítenie Cirkvi nedá odlúčiť od jej učiteľského poslania, čo vždy musí plniť ako verná nevesta Krista, ktorý sám je pravdou... V skutočnosti pravá láskavosť a spravodlivé milosrdenstvo majú...
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