The Hound of Heaven
6 best books like The Hound of Heaven (Francis Thompson): Rikki-Tikki-Tavi, Crossing the Threshold of Hope, God Is Love: Deus Caritas Est, The Pilgrim's Regress, Dante in Love, Broken Gods: Hope, Healing, and the Seven Longings of the Human Heart
| Author | Rudyard Kipling |
| ISBN | 0688143202 |
Here is the thrilling story of Rikki, a fearless young mongoose who finds himself locked in a life-and-death struggle to protect a boy and his parents from Nag and Nagaina, the two enormous cobras who stalk the gardens outside the family's home in India. Nobel Prize winner Rudyard Kipling's timeless...
Crossing the Threshold of Hope
| Author | John Paul II |
| ISBN | 0679765611 |
Fifteen years into his Papacy, and on the eve of the third millennium, Pope John Paul II goes to the heart of his personal beliefs and speaks with passion about the existence of God; about pain, suffering, and evil; about "salvation"; and about the relationship of Catholicism to other branches of the...
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...
| Author | C.S. Lewis |
| ISBN | 0802806414 |
The first book written by C. S. Lewis after his conversion, The Pilgrim's Regress is, in a sense, the record of Lewis s own search for meaning and spiritual satisfaction—a search that eventually led him to Christianity.Here is the story of the pilgrim John and his odyssey to an enchanting island which...
| Author | A.N. Wilson |
| ISBN | 0374134685 |
For William Butler Yeats, Dante Alighieri was "the chief imagination of Christendom." For T. S. Eliot, he was of supreme importance, both as poet and philosopher. Coleridge championed his introduction to an English readership. Tennyson based his poem "Ulysses" on lines from the Inferno. Byron chastised...
Broken Gods: Hope, Healing, and the Seven Longings of the Human Heart
| Author | Gregory K. Popcak |
| ISBN | 0804141150 |
"You are gods."
Blasphemy? No, those mysterious words, spoken by Jesus in the Gospel of John and alluded to in Psalm 82, point to a holy longing deep in our hearts that tells each of us that we were created for more.
“Imagine that you were to wake up tomorrow to discover that,...
