18 books like Mere Christianity

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The pilgrim's regress C. S. Lewis · 1933 · ★ 3.9 · 205p · ≈ 6h · Challenging One of Lewis's earlier works, this book is a similar parable to Bunyan's "The Pilgrim's Progress"; while "Pilgrim's Progress" describes the journey of a non-Christian coming into Christianity, "The Pilgrim's Regress" describes the journey of a man from a Christian background leaving Christianity and then coming back again. As Lewis takes us through this abstract tale, we are left wondering what… Shares: Doctrinal Theology, Apologetics, Theology, Christianity

Short studies on great subjects James Anthony Froude · 1867 · 398p · ≈ 13h · Challenging There was a time—a time which, measured by the years of our national life, was not so very long ago—when the serious thoughts of mankind were occupied exclusively by religion and politics. The small knowledge which they possessed of other things was tinctured by their speculative opinions on the relations of heaven and earth; and, down to the sixteenth century, art, science, scarcely even… Shares: Theology, Christianity, Essays, History

Summa Theologica Thomas Aquinas · 1467 · ★ 4.1 · 212p · ≈ 7h · Demanding Thomas's magnum opus, comprising a systematic integration of Aristotelian philosophy with Christianity. Covers topics such as the nature and existence of God, human nature, law and morality and the relationship of God, world and humans. Shares: Christian ethics, Doctrinal Theology, Christianity

Orthodoxy Gilbert Keith Chesterton · 1874 · ★ 4.2 · 118p · ≈ 3h · Challenging Orthodoxy is G. K. Chesterton’s response to his critics’ assertion that his earlier collection of essays, Heretics, had “merely criticised current philosophies without offering any alternative philosophy.” In his intellectual journey from pagan to agnostic to positivist philosopher, he had attempted to build a philosophy “some ten minutes in advance of the truth.” But when he compared his modern… Shares: Apologetics, Christianity, Essays, History

Aids to reflection in the formation of a manly character Samuel Taylor Coleridge · 1800 · ★ 3.8 · 399p · ≈ 13h · Challenging Published late in the career of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, this work of moral philosophy greatly informed the burgeoning Romantic movement. Shares: Christian ethics, Christianity

The Jefferson Bible Thomas Jefferson · 1902 · 276p · ≈ 9h · Challenging This edition of The Jefferson Bible includes Jefferson's original Letter to the Danbury Baptists about the separation of church and state. The Jefferson Bible, or The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth, as it is properly titled was Thomas Jefferson's version of the New Testament. Jefferson adapted the teachings of Jesus by removing sections of the New Testament containing supernatural… Shares: Doctrinal Theology, History

Guesses at truth Augustus J. C. Hare · 1827 · 576p · ≈ 19h · Challenging Book digitized by Google from the library of Oxford University and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb. Shares: Theology, Christianity

Religio medici Thomas Browne · 1642 · 268p · ≈ 8h · Demanding This book consists of three pivotal essays from the 17th century doctor and scholar Sir Thomas Browne. These spiritual meditations cover various subjects including the relation of Christianity to science and the meaning of mortality. Shares: Christian ethics, Christianity

Heretics Gilbert Keith Chesterton · 1905 · ★ 4.2 · 164p · ≈ 5h · Challenging Gilbert Keith Chesterton was born in London, England on the 29th of May, 1874. Though he considered himself a mere rollicking journalist, he was actually a prolific and gifted writer in virtually every area of literature. A man of strong opinions and enormously talented at defending them, his exuberant personality nevertheless allowed him to maintain warm friendships with people - such as George… Shares: Apologetics, Essays

Pensées Blaise Pascal · 1670 · ★ 4.0 · 297p · ≈ 9h · Demanding "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 Pensees is a collection of philosophical fragments, notes and essays in which he explores the contradictions of human nature in psychological, social, metaphysical and, above all,… Shares: Apologetics, Christianity, History

Bible Various authors · 1200 · ★ 4.6 · 1284p · ≈ 42h · Demanding The purpose of The Original African Heritage Study Bible is to interpret the Bible as it relates specifically to persons of African descent and thereby to foster an appreciation of the multiculturalism inherent in the Bible. The Original African Heritage Study Bible offers a number of unique features which reveal the African/Edenic contribution to Judaism and Christianity, including: 1)… Shares: Theology, History

The Age of Reason Thomas Paine · 1794 · ★ 4.1 · 95p · ≈ 3h · Demanding Thomas Paine who was a dynamic philosophical presence in the American Revolution of 1776 wrote his last book in 1795 on an investigation and commentary of organized religion with a focus on Christianity. Paine said that his "religious duties" included doing justice, loving benevolence, and attempting to make others happy. He called himself a deist which is a person who believes in the existence… Shares: Theology, Christianity, Essays

The Intelligent Man's Guide to Science Isaac Asimov · 1960 · ★ 3.8 · 864p · ≈ 28h · Moderate Reports on recent advances in the physical and biological sciences to aid the general reader in understanding modern scientific phenomena. Shares: Popular works, History

Yet again Sir Max Beerbohm · 1909 · 86p · ≈ 2h · Challenging This book is perfectly adapted and layout for a pleasant reading on a tablet, smartphone or computer. To improve your reading experience, this digital version has been edited and formatted according to the requirements of this platform. Shares: Essays

And Even Now Sir Max Beerbohm · 1920 · 150p · ≈ 5h · Challenging This book is perfectly adapted and layout for a pleasant reading on a tablet, smartphone or computer. To improve your reading experience, this digital version has been edited and formatted according to the requirements of this platform. Shares: Essays

Revolutionist's Handbook and Pocket Companion George Bernard Shaw · 1900 · 58p · ≈ 1h · Challenging The French Revolution overthrew one set of rulers and substituted another with different interests and different views. That is what a general election enables the people to do in England every seven years if they choose. Revolution is therefore a national institution in England; and its advocacy by an Englishman needs no apology. Every man is a revolutionist concerning the thing he understands.… Shares: Essays

Hausblätter F. W. Hackländer · 1855 · 480p · ≈ 16h · Challenging Shares: Essays

Escape, and other essays Arthur Christopher Benson · 1915 · ★ 5.0 · 302p · ≈ 10h · Challenging This book is romantic story, I walked to-day down by the river side. The Cam is a stream much slighted by the lover of wild and romantic scenery; and its chief merit, in the eyes of our boys, is that it approaches more nearly to a canal in its straightness and the deliberation of its slow lapse than many more famous floods--and is therefore more adapted for the maneuvres of eight-oared boats! But… Shares: Essays

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