The Intellectual Life: Its Spirit, Conditions, Methods
9 best books like The Intellectual Life: Its Spirit, Conditions, Methods (Antonin Sertillanges): How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading, Leisure: The Basis of Culture, Fides et Ratio: On the Relationship Between Faith and Reason, Ideas Have Consequences, Habits of the Mind: Intellectual life as a Christian calling, Desiring the Kingdom: Worship, Worldview, and Cultural Formation, The Abolition of Man, Research Strategies: Finding Your Way Through the Information Fog, Stylish Academic Writing
How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading
How to Read a Book, originally published in 1940, has become a rare phenomenon, a living classic. It is the best and most successful guide to reading comprehension for the general reader. And now it has been completely rewritten and updated. You are told about the various levels of reading and how to achieve...
| Author | Josef Pieper |
| ISBN | 1890318353 |
One of the most important philosophy titles published in the twentieth century, Josef Pieper's Leisure: the Basis of Culture is more significant, even more crucial, today than it was when it first appeared fifty years ago. Pieper shows that the Greeks understood and valued leisure, as did the medieval...
| Author | John Paul II |
| ISBN | 0819826693 |
I found this to be a splendid example of the similarity between science and religion: both rest on faith statements and proceed by logical analysis. If you think science does not rest on faith statements, consider "Hume's Problem of Induction" and "Popperian Falsification."
Five stars!...
| Author | Richard M. Weaver |
| ISBN | 0226876802 |
In what has become a classic work, Richard M. Weaver unsparingly diagnoses the ills of our age and offers a realistic remedy. He asserts that the world is intelligible and that man is free. The catastrophes of our age the catastrophes of our age are the product of unintelligent choice and the cure lies...
| Author | James W. Sire |
| ISBN | 0830822739 |
A 2001 Christianity Today Book of the Year! What is an intellectual? How can you learn to think well? What does it mean to love God with your mind? Can the intellectual life be a legitimate Christian calling? Is the intellectual life your calling? James Sire brings wit and wisdom to bear on these questions...
| Author | James K.A. Smith |
| ISBN | 0801035775 |
Malls, stadiums, and universities are actually liturgical structures that influence and shape our thoughts and affections. Humans–as Augustine noted–are "desiring agents," full of longings and passions; in brief, we are what we love.
James K. A. Smith focuses on the themes of liturgy...
When things get bad, I take out the bourbon. When, as occasionally happens, time drags on and things don't get any better, I put the bourbon away and take out C. S. Lewis. His books are short, readable, and filled with an uncanny amount of wisdom. His genius, and the reason he's always been a comfort to me,...
Research Strategies: Finding Your Way Through the Information Fog
| Author | William B. Badke |
| ISBN | 1462010199 |
Writing research papers does not have to be the painful experience many people make it out to be. It is possible to develop significant skills in order to make the writing process much easier than you think. In "Research Strategies," author William Badke offers a clear, simple, and often humorous roadmap...
| Author | Helen Sword |
| ISBN | 0674064488 |
Elegant data and ideas deserve elegant expression, argues Helen Sword in this lively guide to academic writing. For scholars frustrated with disciplinary conventions, and for specialists who want to write for a larger audience but are unsure where to begin, here are imaginative, practical, witty...
