18 books like Summa Theologica

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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: Catholic authors, Controversial literature, Catholic Church, Christianity

Mere Christianity C. S. Lewis · 1943 · ★ 4.4 · 141p · ≈ 4h · Challenging First broadcast as informal radio "talks" and later published as three separate books, The Case for Christianity, Christian Behaviour, and Beyond Personality are presented together in Mere Christianity. In his remarkably direct and accessible style, the renowned Christian apologist shows how the power of Christianity manifests itself -- not in any single denomination but as "mere" Christianity, a… Shares: Christian ethics, Doctrinal Theology, Christianity

Apologia pro vita sua John Henry Newman · 1860 · ★ 4.1 · 340p · ≈ 11h · Challenging An influential Church of England vicar, John Henry Newman stunned the Anglican community in 1843, when he joined the Roman Catholic Church. Protestant clergyman Charles Kingsley launched the most scathing attacks against Newman and this was Newman's brilliant response. A spiritual autobiography, Apologia Pro Vita Sua explores the very depths and nature of Christianity. Shares: Catholic authors, Controversial literature, Catholic Church

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, Philosophy

Jesus, Interrupted Bart D. Ehrman · 2009 · ★ 4.3 · 292p · ≈ 9h · Moderate The problems with the Bible that New Testament scholar Bart Ehrman discussed in his bestseller Misquoting Jesus—and on The Daily Show with John Stewart, NPR, and Dateline NBC, among others—are expanded upon exponentially in his latest book: Jesus, Interrupted. This New York Times bestseller reveals how books in the Bible were actually forged by later authors, and that the New Testament itself is… Shares: Controversial literature, 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, Philosophy

Confessiones Augustine of Hippo · 1482 · ★ 4.0 · 383p · ≈ 12h · Demanding Garry Wills’s complete translation of Saint Augustine’s spiritual masterpiece—available now for the first time Garry Wills is an exceptionally gifted translator and one of our best writers on religion today. His bestselling translations of individual chapters of Saint Augustine’s Confessions have received widespread and glowing reviews. Now for the first time, Wills’s translation of the entire… Shares: Collected works, Christianity, Philosophy

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, Christianity

Resurrection John Shelby Spong · 1994 · ★ 3.5 · 336p · ≈ 11h · Moderate A daring examination of the foundational event of Christianity, and an inspiring vision for reconciliation between Jews and Christians from the bestselling author and widely respected Bishop John Shelby Spong.Using approaches from the Hebrew interpretive tradition to discern the actual events surrounging Jesus' death, Bishop Spong questions the hitorical validity of literal narrative concerned… Shares: Controversial literature, Christianity

Supernatural religion Walter Richard Cassels · 1874 · 920p · ≈ 30h · Demanding In "Supernatural Religion," Walter Richard Cassels presents a meticulous and critical examination of the origins and historical context of Christianity, particularly focusing on the concept of the supernatural within religious narratives. His literary style is characterized by rigorous analysis and a systematic approach, drawing heavily from a scholarly tradition that seeks to demystify religious… Shares: Controversial literature, Christianity

Androcles and the lion George Bernard Shaw · 1913 · ★ 3.6 · 158p · ≈ 5h · Challenging Based on the fable about a Greek tailor's conversion to Christianity, his befriending of a lion, and gladiatorial experience in Nero's Coliseum. Shares: Controversial literature, Christianity

Der Antichrist Friedrich Nietzsche · 1895 · ★ 4.1 · 92p · ≈ 3h · Challenging "Here is Friedrich Nietzsche's great masterpiece The Anti-Christ, wherein Nietzsche attacks Christianity as a blight on humanity. This classic is essential reading for anyone wishing to understand Nietzsche and his place within the history of philosophy ..."--Description from www.amazon.com Shares: Controversial literature, Christianity, Philosophy

Dieu et l’État Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin · 1882 · ★ 3.8 · 84p · ≈ 2h · Challenging God and the State (called by its author The Historical Sophisms of the Doctrinaire School of Communism) is an unfinished manuscript by the Russian anarchist philosopher Mikhail Bakunin, published posthumously in 1882. The work criticises Christianity and the then-burgeoning technocracy movement from a materialist, anarchist and individualist perspective. Early editions contained rewrites by Carlo… Shares: Controversial literature, Christianity, Philosophy

Awful disclosures of Maria Monk Maria Monk · 1800 · 261p · ≈ 8h · Challenging Awful disclosures of Maria Monk, as exhibited in a narrative of her sufferings during a residence of five years as a novice, and two years as a black nun, in the Hôtel Dieu nunnery at Montreal. By Maria Monk; in London. Shares: Controversial literature, Catholic Church

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: Controversial literature, Christianity, Philosophy

The journey to Rome Christine M. Bochen · 1988 · 436p · ≈ 14h · Moderate This title, first published in 1988, examines accounts of religious conversion contained in the personal narratives of nineteenth-century American coverts to Roman Catholicism. Given their newly acquired status as members of an unpopular religious minority, a number of converts recorded their conversion stories in an effort to justify becoming Catholic and to defend the teaching and practice of… Shares: Catholic Church, Christianity

The portable Nietzsche Friedrich Nietzsche · 1954 · ★ 4.2 · 692p · ≈ 23h · Moderate Selections from the books, notes, and letters of this 19th century philosopher. Shares: Collected works, Philosophy

Actes and monuments John Foxe · 1563 · ★ 4.3 · 597p · ≈ 19h · Demanding "Acts and monuments of matters most special and memorable, happening in the church with an universal history of the same. Wherein is set forth at large, the whole race and course of the church, from the primitive age to these later times of ours, with the bloody times, horrible troubled, and great persecutions against the true martyrs of Christ ... Whereunto are annexed certain additions of like… Shares: Controversial literature, Catholic Church

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