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108. Confessions of Augustine - hm... interesting read but now I want to see what City of God by Augustine is like since this one didn't really strike me very often
109. The Aeneid by Virgil - the Fitzgerald translation - Not reading for the poetry or in depth details, but for the overall ... Theology:
1. St. Augustine: De Civitate Dei (in Finnish, Books I-X)
2. Jack Miles: God - a biography (in English)
3. G.K. Chesterton: Orthodoxy (in English)
4. Dorothy L. Sayers: The Mind of the Maker (in English)
5. Mark A. Noll: The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind ... The City of God ... and have a very good bibliography so the book can lead you to others. Anyway, here are my five with a brief explanation:
The City of God Against the Pagans by Augustine of Hippo - The Church was the single most influential organization throughout the Middle Ages and this is the single most ... ... as opposed to static ideal models or endlessly repeating cycles, though it wasn't the sole source of this idea. So De Civitate Dei can talk about our recta eruditio (education) advancing autem unius hominis, ita humani generis (as a human individual, so the human race); ... On Augustine (post #171), I don't have an answer for you. I had to read Confessions for one class and City of God for another, and I will not take any further courses that require Augustine. Enough of him! ... by Amy Tan
Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret by Judy Blume
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
City of God by Augustine ... Whom the Bell Toll, Seize the Day, Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, Manalive.
Currently I'm reading Human Action, City of God and Grapes of Wrath.
I'll try to read also Big Fisherman and maybe The Great Gatsby or The Pickwick Papers. City of God by St. Augustine -- always good to read the classics and understand where your theology is coming from. ... library catalog and did a search on "apologetics" and came up with six books.
Mere Christianity, already mentioned.
City of God by St. Augustine - a classic
Screwtape Letters - this is very good reading.
The Christian Agnostic by Leslie D. Weatherhead, which I haven't read ... ... (And theologians: over in another topic, the Spalding sibling dialectic is doing The City of God V.9.)
In a forum ... ... King Alfred thought were essential for all people in his time:
Gregory's Regula Pastoralis and Dialogues
Orosius's History against the Pagans
Augustine's Confessions and City of God and Soliloquies
Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
... There is no just war theory, there are many. Augustine was the first one to discuss it at length in The City of God. Others have added to it, including Thomas Aquinas. John Howard Yoder wrote an eloquent argument against the just war theory. ... and it is thinking like that which led to the spiritual imprisonment of women?
To say that The confessions or The City of God made you lose your faith is no different. You cannot blame these books any more than Augustine can blame his mistress. For whatever reasons, these books ... #52 Reading that as well as The City of God and On the Trinity made me lost my faith, since his "logic" was so similar to the Islamic "logic" I'd grown up with. ...
I heard a talk the other morning about St. Augustine, so I've added his Confessions to the TBR pile as a re-read. I tried The City of God a couple of years ago but couldn't finish it, and I really don't think I'm ready to try again just yet.
mrlanger in Graduate Students : The most influential book you have read in your subject (Aug 11, 2007, 3:07pm) ... into how to apply theology and reading of Scripture.
Book Four of Augustine's The Trinity and Book Ten of his City of God have been helpful in terms of understanding atonement theology prior to the major stances on atonement.
G.K. Chesterton's Orthodoxy has taught me how to ... Within the Christianity Group, there is a similar effort called: 1001 Christian Books?
I think St. Augustine's City of God or his Confessions tend to be recommended. Books by C. S. Lewis would be on most people's list.
I think St. John of the Cross' prose can be weighty going, but I ... ... McDonald's Fairy Tales, Madeline L'engle's works especially The Time Quartet, and good ol' St. Augustine -----> City of God and Confessions. ... C. S. Lewis's works.
The Summa Theologica by Thomas Aquinas.
Confessions by Augustine of Hippo.
City of God by Augustine of Hippo.
Heresies: Heresy and Orthodoxy in the History of the Church by Harold O. J. Brown.
Two or three good solid biblical ... ... and rhetoric to others.
In terms of a brief almost historical overview of how Christians treat politics I would suggest city of god by augustine Martin Luther Table Talk and some of bonhoeffer's writings. Of course there is also John Calvin's John Calvin on God and political ... ... her work is currently out of print. At least you can still get hold of Miss Majoribanks and her excellent ghost stories, A Beleagured City. Just finished City of God by Augustine, and have moved on to Ludwig by Ray Monk.
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