Three Treatises
10 best books like Three Treatises (Martin Luther): The Travels, Pensées, Here I Stand: A Life of Martin Luther, Headlong, Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community, Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life, Luther: Man Between God and the Devil, Martin Luther, Augustine of Hippo: A Biography, The Early Church
| Author | Marco Polo |
| ISBN | 0140440577 |
Marco Polo (1254-1329) has achieved an almost archetypal status as a traveller, and his Travels is one of the first great travel books of Western literature, outside the ancient world. The Travels recounts Polo's journey to the eastern court of Kublai Khan, the chieftain of the Mongol empire which...
| Author | Blaise Pascal |
| ISBN | 0140446451 |
Blaise Pascal, the precociously brilliant contemporary of Descartes, was a gifted mathematician and physicist, but it is his unfinished apologia for the Christian religion upon which his reputation now rests. The Penseés is a collection of philosohical fragments, notes and essays in which Pascal...
Here I Stand: A Life of Martin Luther
| Author | Roland H. Bainton |
| ISBN | 0452011469 |
It's funny to think that the Protestant religion - today, at least, a moderate and forward-looking religion - is based on the writings of this man, one of the evilest human beings that ever lived. He was also the acknowledged inspiration for the Nazi party which should tell you plenty of his sentiments...
| Author | Michael Frayn |
| ISBN | 0571225586 |
The combined smell of mildew, old food and wet dog was about to make me heave undigested pot roast, when our host had finally gotten around to telling us why he invited us to dinner.
“I heard you were something of a comic book aficionado and wanted your opinion on something.”
I eyed...
Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community
| Author | Dietrich Bonhoeffer |
| ISBN | 0060608528 |
In Life Together, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, renowned Christian minister, professor, and author of The Cost of Discipleship recounts his unique fellowship in an underground seminary during the Nazi years in Germany. Giving practical advice on how life together in Christ can be sustained in families...
Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life
| Author | Richard Rohr |
| ISBN | 0470907754 |
A fresh way of thinking about spirituality that grows throughout life In Falling Upward, Fr. Richard Rohr seeks to help readers understand the tasks of the two halves of life and to show them that those who have fallen, failed, or "gone down" are the only ones who understand "up." Most of us tend to think...
| Author | Heiko A. Oberman |
| ISBN | 0300103131 |
Written by one of the world's greatest authorities on Martin Luther, this is the definitive biography of the central figure of the Protestant Reformation.
“A brilliant account of Luther’s evolution as a man, a thinker, and a Christian ... Every person interested in Christianity should put...
| Author | Martin E. Marty |
| ISBN | 0670032727 |
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,...
| Author | Peter R.L. Brown |
| ISBN | 0520227573 |
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...
This is the first volume of the penguin history of the church and not the beginning of a history of Christianity.
Implicit in this book is the idea that orthodoxy has always existed. This is a problem and a grave weakness. In the absence of a creed, a canon of agreed genuine holy books there is only...
| Author | Jean-Paul Sartre |
| ISBN | 0394704649 |
From one of the 20th century's most profound philosophers and writers, comes a thought provoking essay that seeks to reconcile Marxism with existentialism. Exploring the complicated relationship the two philosophical schools of thought have with one another, Sartre supposes that the two are in...
C. S. Lewis: A Life: Eccentric Genius, Reluctant Prophet
| Author | Alister E. McGrath |
| ISBN | 1414339356 |
Fifty years after his death, C. S. Lewis continues to inspire and fascinate millions. His legacy remains varied and vast. He was a towering intellectual figure, a popular fiction author who inspired a global movie franchise around the world of Narnia, and an atheist-turned-Christian thinker.
In...
