Religion Books

The Sayings of Confucius

Confucius

Confucius was a Chinese philosopher and politician of the Spring and Autumn period. The philosophy of Confucius, also known as Confucianism, emphasized personal and governmental morality, correctness ..

Life of John Coleridge Patteson - Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands

Charlotte M. Yonge

There are of course peculiar advantages as well as disadvantages in endeavouring to write the life of one recently departed. On the one hand, the remembrances connected with him are far fresher; his c..

The Potter and the Clay

Arthur F. Winnington Ingram

This book, then, is an answer to the question asked me very often during the past two years, and very pointedly from the trenches this very Christmas Day: "How can you reconcile your belief in a good ..

Men Called Him Master

Elwyn A. Smith

Men Called Him Master is a a biography of Jesus Christ written for young readers by Elwyn A. Smith. What kind of men were Jesus' disciples? What was it like to be with Jesus in Palestine? Why did..

A History of Freedom of Thought

J. B. Bury

IT is a common saying that thought is free. A man can never be hindered from thinking whatever he chooses so long as he conceals what he thinks. The working of his mind is limited only by the bounds o..

Pantheisticon

John Toland

Pantheisticon: or, the Form Of Celebrating the Socratic-Society.Divided into Three Parts.Which Contain,I. The Morals and Axioms of the Pantheists; or the Brotherhood.II. Their Deity and Philosophy.III..

Three Prayers and Sermons

Jonathan Swift

Almighty and most gracious Lord God, extend, we beseech Thee, Thy pity and compassion toward this Thy languishing servant; teach her to place her hope and confidence entirely in Thee; give her a true ..

Light, Life, and Love - Selections from the German Mystics of the Middle Ages

William Ralph Inge

TO most English readers the "Imitation of Christ" is the representative of mediaeval German mysticism. In reality, however, this beautiful little treatise belongs to a period when that movement had ne..