Thursday, May 20, 2010

Great Books for Serious Readers

Ave Maria Purissima...

The following are the books I recently collected for my private reading, and I am sharing these to you for your study as well. Reading the book is like reading the thoughts of the author who wrote it and on how his thoughts were formed by the thoughts of others who either gone before him or of his contemporaries either friends or foes.

We have to exercise critical thinking, suspending judgement until we reach to the core of the idea and landed on the foundation of the author's mind and soul. Then we can say we understand him through his writings. The next step THEN is to proceed to the thoughts of his foes who also wrote books or of writings contrary to him, and proceed as we did in the former then and only then we can say we are standing in the middle ground or at the top where we can see and understand clearly both sides of the coin. But having both views does not exempt us in forming our own perspective and decision. Indecision kills as the proverbial carabao who died of starvation while standing in the middle of two tall hays. - apo almiro de alexandria

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ENJOY!

Early eastern Christianity: St. Margaret's lectures, 1904, on the Syriac ... By Francis Crawford Burkitt




Early Christian Hymns



Peter Lombard and the Sacramental System



The Early Years of Christianity



Early Christian witnesses, or, Testimonies of the first centuries to the ... By James Fleming



Christian history in its three great periods; first period, early Christianity By Joseph Henry Allen



Pagan and Christian Rome By Rodolfo Amedeo Lanciani



The history of early Christianity By Leighton Pullan



Early Christianity in Arabia By Thomas Wright



The concept of mortal sin in early Christianity By Hubert Louis Motry



The transformation of early Christianity from an eschatological to a ... By Lyford Paterson Edwards



City centres of early Christianity By Robert Alexander Aytoun



Phases of early Christianity, six lectures By Joseph Estlin Carpenter



Early Christianity outside the Roman Empire: 2 lectures delivered at Trinity ... By Francis Crawford Burkitt



Early Christianity and paganism, A.D. 64 to the peace of the church in the ... By Henry Donald Maurice Spence-Jones



The testimony of Justin Martyr to early Christianity: lectures delivered on ... By George Tybout Purves



A Literary History of Early Christianity: The heretical sects By Charles Thomas Cruttwell



Landmarks in the history of early Christianity By Kirsopp Lake



The environment of early Christianity By Samuel Angus



The evolution of early Christianity: a genetic study of first-century ... By Shirley Jackson Case



How Christ said the first mass, or, The Lord's last supper: The rites and ... By James Luke Meagher


I found this particular book really great, rich in details and very enlightening.



Christ's kingdom on earth; or, The church and her divine constitution ... By James Luke Meagher



The great catechism of the holy catholic, apostolic, and orthodox church By Platon (Metropolitan of Moscow)



The Church of the Bible; or, Scripture testimonies to Catholic doctrines and ... By Frederick Oakeley