Jewish Books: 18 Essential Texts Every Jew Should Read
Here is the list of 25 books for Christians:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/01/spiritual-classics-christian_n_989623.html?ref=christianity
Begins with On the Incarnation and contains many other excellent suggestions.
I've read eleven on that list (some in full, some in part), more than I expected:
1. Blessed Augustine's
Confessions (Highly recommended!)
2.
The Philokalia (Still working through it, but wonderful stuff.)
3.
The Institutes of John Calvin (Read most of it during my Protestant days. Calvin was not a very good writer IMO, too redundant. Can't compare with Luther's writings, which as heretical as they are nevertheless are thoroughly readable and very entertaining.)
4. Pascal's
Pensees (I've read much of it. Good writer and a good philosopher, although his "wager" is given way too much prominence for some odd reason. That's one of his weaker arguments.)
5.
Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan (Actually a very Orthodox book written by a Protestant.)
6.
The Way of A Pilgrim (Don't need to say much about this one.)
7.
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky (Riches and depth on every page!)
8.
Orthodoxy by G.K. Chesterton (This is not a book about Orthodoxy in the "Orthodox" theological sense, but a wonderful read nonetheless. Chesterton’s arguments are wonderfully witty and profoundly logical. Great stuff!)
9.
The Cost of Discipleship by Dietrich Bonhoeffer (One of the most influential books I’ve ever read. The ideas are thoroughly Orthodox in my opinion, even though Bonhoeffer was a Lutheran.)
10.
The Seven Story Mountain by Thomas Merton. (Written by one of my spiritual heroes, this is one of my 3 favorite books.)
11.
Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis (A very good book, sound Christian apologetics conveyed in a very readable manner.)
Selam
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