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I can definitely now add Reason in Religion by George Santayana to my list(s).
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« Reply #46 on: July 16, 2011, 08:52:25 PM » |
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The Secret History, by Donna Tartt
What a detailed book. I don't know if they've made the movie yet.
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« Reply #47 on: January 12, 2013, 10:00:02 PM » |
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Some of my faves...
Orthodox books:
"The Way of the Pilgrim"
"Mountain of Silence" - Kyriakos C. Markides
"Father Arseny"
"The Orthodox Way" - Bishop Kallistos
Other non-fiction:
"The Perennial Philosophy" - Aldous Huxley
"The Fullness of God" - Frithjof Schuon on Christianity
"Meditations on the Tarot - an Introduction into Christian Hermeticism" - Anonymous
"The Seven Storey Mountain" - Thomas Merton
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"Crime and Punishment" and "The Brothers Karamazov" - Dostoevsky
"Siddhartha" - Hermann Hesse
Thomas merton is one of my favorites too. But what is this book you mentioned about? I don't think I have read it. |
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« Reply #48 on: January 12, 2013, 11:57:08 PM » |
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Some of my faves...
Orthodox books:
"The Way of the Pilgrim"
"Mountain of Silence" - Kyriakos C. Markides
"Father Arseny"
"The Orthodox Way" - Bishop Kallistos
Other non-fiction:
"The Perennial Philosophy" - Aldous Huxley
"The Fullness of God" - Frithjof Schuon on Christianity
"Meditations on the Tarot - an Introduction into Christian Hermeticism" - Anonymous
"The Seven Storey Mountain" - Thomas Merton
Fiction:
"Crime and Punishment" and "The Brothers Karamazov" - Dostoevsky
"Siddhartha" - Hermann Hesse
Thomas merton is one of my favorites too. But what is this book you mentioned about? I don't think I have read it. You say Merton is one of your favorites, but you've never heard of that one? Come on, are you just playing games? |
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« Reply #49 on: January 13, 2013, 02:38:02 AM » |
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Anything by St. John Chrysostom, Confessions by St. Augustine--probably the book that converted me to Orthodoxy. I also enjoy a couple books by C.S. Lewis--his use of Christian allegory and satire is very interesting. History books are very interesting to me, and occassionally I like a good romance novel.
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« Reply #50 on: January 13, 2013, 09:13:55 AM » |
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Thomas merton is one of my favorites too. But what is this book you mentioned about? I don't think I have read it.
It's an autobiographical account of his conversion to Christianity and his becoming a monk. Classic. Recommended. |
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Orthodox - The Arena
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« Reply #52 on: January 13, 2013, 03:49:51 PM » |
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I'm too lazy to pick up any specific book. As of novelists, some of my favourites are Eddings, Poe, Lovecraft, Waltari, Aho and Kivi.
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« Reply #53 on: January 14, 2013, 07:12:28 PM » |
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Some of my faves...
Orthodox books:
"The Way of the Pilgrim"
"Mountain of Silence" - Kyriakos C. Markides
"Father Arseny"
"The Orthodox Way" - Bishop Kallistos
Other non-fiction:
"The Perennial Philosophy" - Aldous Huxley
"The Fullness of God" - Frithjof Schuon on Christianity
"Meditations on the Tarot - an Introduction into Christian Hermeticism" - Anonymous
"The Seven Storey Mountain" - Thomas Merton
Fiction:
"Crime and Punishment" and "The Brothers Karamazov" - Dostoevsky
"Siddhartha" - Hermann Hesse
Thomas merton is one of my favorites too. But what is this book you mentioned about? I don't think I have read it. You say Merton is one of your favorites, but you've never heard of that one? Come on, are you just playing games? I never read this book i meant. There are many writers that I love, but haven't read everything they have written. |
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I must say that since childhood, my favorite book has remained The Nun by Denis Diderot. It is a powerful description of a WOMAN OF CHARACTER.
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« Reply #55 on: February 27, 2013, 11:58:15 AM » |
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Homer's Iliad.
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I know I will leave something out, so I may chime in later with a few more. But off the top of my head, here are a few of my favorites: Orthodox LiteratureThe Way of A PilgrimThe Ethiopian Tewahedo Church by Archbishop Yesehaq The Life of St. Anthony by St. Athanasius Father Seraphim Rose: His Life and Works by Hiermonk Damascene The Gurus, The Young Man, and Elder Paisios by Dionysios Farasiotis Comparative Theology by H.H. Pope Shenouda III The Mountain of Silence by Kyriacos Markides Confessions by Blessed Augustine NonfictionThe Kingdom of God is Within You by Leo Tolstoy Why We Can't Wait by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The Cost of Discipleship by Dietrich Bonhoeffer Attack Upon Christendom by Soren Kierkegaard Hostage to the Devil by Malachi Martin The Dark Sacrament by David Kiely and Christina Mckenna Undaunted Courage by Stephen Ambrose Duende: A Journey in Search of Flamenco by David Webster Rasta Heart: A Journey into One Love by Robert Roskind The Motorcycle Diaries by Ernesto "Che" Guevara Redemption Song: Muhammad Ali and the Spirit of the Sixties by Mike Marqusee Meditations of the Heart by Howard Thurman Biography / AutobiographyThe Seven Storey Mountain by Thoman Merton The Long Loneliness by Dorothy Day Catch a Fire by Timothy White Radical Son by David Horrowitz The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X (El Hajj Malik El Shabazz) and Alex Haley Long Walk To Freedom by Nelson Mandela Autobiograpy: The Storey of My Experiments With Truth by Mohandas K. Gandhi Ready for Revolution by Kwame Toure Raven: The Untold Storey of The Rev. Jim Jones and His People's Temple by Tim Reiterman Soul on Ice by Eldridge Cleaver Miles: The Autobiography by Miles Davis SportsThe Courting of Marcus DuPree by Willie Morris Muhammad Ali: His Life and Times by Thomas Houser Friday Night Lights by H.G. Bissinger Season on The Brink by John Feinstein The Fab Five by Mitch Albom FictionEverything written by Earnest HemmingwayThe Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (I obviously need to read more fiction.  ) Selam |
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« Reply #57 on: March 16, 2013, 11:41:28 AM » |
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Orthodox Psychotherapy by +Met. HIEROTHEOS
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Functional and Dysfunctional Christianity by Philotheos Faros (recommended by our good friend and former poster, Ozgeorge.) Metropolitan Hierotheos's books are very nice. This other title sounds interesting. Recent read on the Orthodox Church > Sobornosti by Matthew Raphael Johnson (himself an old calendarist priest) is the both best history of Russia (in english) and the best book about Russian Old Believers that I have read. In my opinion, it is much more discriminating and rewarding than earlier books by the american historian Robert Crummey - although Crummey's books are good also and were the most informative material in english on that topic for a very long time. Economics > The Servile State by Hilaire Belloc (circa 1911 A.D.) who was G.K. Chesterton's best friend was in my opinion both Belloc's greatest work and the best introduction to the economic school called "distributism." It is an approximately 200 page economic history of western europe from Roman times to about 1900 A.D. written so well and simply that I honestly reckon a fourth grade child could read and understand the material. The theme is that capitalism is a transitory economic system that will bring about slavery which is a stable economic system. The opposite extreme is another stable economic system he calls distributism which dominated the middle ages and was brought about by the spread of the Church - the influence of which gradually reduced the slavery and economic power which paganism had accumulated into the hands of a few. Although written by a Papist (Frankist), this book was the first one which I had read which had a negative understanding and portrayal of the protestant reformation and had a lot to do with my conversion to the Orthodox Church. I surmise from his books that the anarchist Peter Kropotkin also advocated a kind of distributist or decentralized economic system that places means of production and thus independence in the hands of the common man or local community. |
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Favorite Orthodox: The Abbot and I: as Told by Josie the Cat by Sarah Cowie [favorite animal: cats]  Favorite secular: Brother Cadfael series by Ellis Peters Phanouria www.stjohnmemphis.org |
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« Reply #59 on: March 22, 2013, 07:09:12 PM » |
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The Bible, The Odyssey by Homer and Scritti corsari by Pier Paolo Pasolini.
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