18 books like The Everlasting Man

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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 Church - Apologetic works, Apologetic works, Apologetics, Catholic Church

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 Church - Apologetic works, Apologetic works, Catholic Church

The Case for Christ-Japanese Lee Strobel · 1656 · ★ 4.5 · 319p · ≈ 10h · Demanding "There's little question that he actually lived. But miracles? Rising from the dead? Some of the stories you hear about him sound like just that - stories. A reasonable person would never believe them, let alone the claim that he's the only way to God! But a reasonable person would also make sure that he or she understood the facts before jumping to conclusions. That's why Lee Strobel - an… Shares: Apologetics, Jesus christ, Religion

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, Religion

The Conquest of Fear Basil King · 1921 · ★ 5.0 · 270p · ≈ 9h · Challenging Look at the people you run up against in the course of a few hours. Everyone is living or working in fear. The mother is afraid for her children. The father is afraid for his business. The clerk is afraid for his job. The worker is afraid of his boss or his competitor. There is hardly a man who is not afraid that some other man will do him a bad turn. There is hardly a woman who is not afraid… Shares: Spirituality, Christianity

Marius the Epicurean Walter Pater · 1885 · ★ 3.6 · 370p · ≈ 12h · Challenging Marius is born in the second-century Roman Empire to a patrician family. In his youth he takes in the rituals, religion, and surroundings of his native land, and when his parents die, he’s sent away to a boarding school. As young Marius develops into manhood, he explores various schools of philosophy and ways of life, until he lands into the position of amanuensis to the emperor Marcus… Shares: Christianity and other religions, Christianity, Religion

Orm og tyr Martin Alfred Hansen · 1952 · 381p · ≈ 12h · Moderate Shares: Christianity and other religions, Religion

Nordmaendenes religionsforfatning i hedendommen Rudolph Keyser · 1847 · 348p · ≈ 11h · Challenging Shares: Christianity and other religions, Religion

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: Jesus christ, Christianity

The Kybalion Three Initiates · 1912 · ★ 4.2 · 90p · ≈ 3h · Challenging The Kybalion: Hermetic Philosophy is a 1908 book claiming to be the essence of the teachings of Hermes Trismegistus, published anonymously by a group or person under the pseudonym of "the Three Initiates". Shares: Spirituality, Philosophy

Sapiens Yuval Noah Harari · 2011 · ★ 4.3 · 456p · ≈ 15h · Moderate From a renowned historian comes a groundbreaking narrative of humanity’s creation and evolution—a #1 international bestseller—that explores the ways in which biology and history have defined us and enhanced our understanding of what it means to be “human.” One hundred thousand years ago, at least six different species of humans inhabited Earth. Yet today there is only one—homo sapiens. What… Shares: World history, Human beings

Prayers of the Cosmos Neil Douglas-Klotz · 1990 · ★ 4.4 · 91p · ≈ 3h · Moderate Neil Douglas-Klotz offers a radical new translation of the Aramaic words of Jesus Christ with Prayers of the Cosmos. Reinterpreting the Lord’s Prayer and the Beatitudes from the vantage of Middle Eastern mysticism, Douglas-Klotz, the Sufi Founder of the worldwide network of the Dances of Universal Peace, reveals a mystical, feminist, cosmic Christ. Prayers of the Cosmos is a spiritual… Shares: Jesus christ, Christianity

Culture and religion in some of their relations John Campbell Shairp · 1871 · 197p · ≈ 6h · Challenging Shares: Christianity, Religion, Philosophy

The Power of Now Eckhart Tolle · 1997 · ★ 4.5 · 224p · ≈ 7h · Moderate Eckhart Tolle has emerged as one of today's most inspiring teachers. In The Power of Now, already a worldwide bestseller, the author describes his transition from despair to self-realization soon after his 29th birthday. Tolle took another ten years to understand this transformation, during which time he evolved a philosophy that has parallels in Buddhism, relaxation techniques, and meditation… Shares: Spirituality, Christianity, Religion

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, Religion

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, Religion

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: Apologetics, Christianity

Pagan & Christian creeds Edward Carpenter · 1920 · 196p · ≈ 6h · Challenging An important thinker in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century period, English writer and philosopher Edward Carpenter was blessed with a seemingly insatiable intellectual curiosity. In this wide-ranging analysis of early religions and folk beliefs, Carpenter offers a deft and often poetic take on ancient rituals and deities. Shares: Christianity and other religions, Religion

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