The Great Books reader
Subtitle: excerpts and essays on the most influential books in western civilization
By: John Mark Reynolds, general editor
Publisher: Bethany House
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Bloomington, MN
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780764208522
Subjects: Books and reading; Literature; Collections; Best books; Christians
Description: "This anthology includes excerpts from thirty of the greatest works in western literature, and essays about those works written by distinguished professors, lecturers, and authors"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Homer. Introduction. Selection from the Odyssey. Essay by Al Geier; title: Plato. Introduction. Selection from The republic. Essay by Gary Hartenburg; title: Aristotle. Introduction. Selection from Nicomachean ethics. Essay by Jeff Lehman; title: Virgil. Introduction. Selection from The Aeneid. Essay by Jeff Lehman; title: Augustine. Introduction. Selection from Confessions. Essay by Peter Kreeft; title: Boethius. Introduction. Selection from Consolation of philosophy. Essay by Michael Fatigati; title: Thomas Aquinas. Introduction. Selection from Summa theologica. Essay by Peter Kreeft; title: Dante Alighieri. Introduction. Selection from The divine comedy. Essay by Anthony Esolen; title: Geoffrey Chaucer. Introduction. Selection from The Canterbury tales. Essay by Diane Vincent; title: Desiderius Erasmus. Introduction. Selection from In praise of folly. Essay by Greg Peters; title: John Calvin. Introduction. Selection from Institutes of the Christian religion. Essay by Russell D. Moore; title: Edmund Spenser. Introduction. Selection From The faerie queene. Essay by John Mark Reynolds; title: Miguel De Cervantes. Introduction. Selection from Don Quixote. Essay by RT Llizo; title: William Shakespeare. Introduction. Selection from Much ado about nothing. Essay by Melissa Schubert; title: René Descartes. Introduction. Selection from Meditations. Essay by Thomas Ward; title: John Milton. Introduction. Selection from Paradise lost. Essay by Frederica Mathewes-Green; title: Blaise Pascal. Introduction. Selection from Pensées. Essay by Peter Kreeft; title: John Locke. Introduction. Selection (on Epistemology) from An essay concerning human understanding. Essay by Janelle Klapausak; title: John Locke. Introduction. Selection (on Politics) from Two treatises on government. Essay by Jamie Campbell; title: Isaac Newton. Introduction. Selection from Mathematical principles of natural philosophy. Essay by William A. Dembski; title: John Wesley. Introduction. Selection from Sermons. Essay by Joe Henderson; title: Jane Austen. Introduction. Selection from Pride and prejudice. Essay by John Mark Reynolds; title: Alexis de Tocqueville. Introduction. Selection from Democracy in America. Essay by Hugh Hewitt; title: Karl Marx (and Friedrich Engels). Introduction. Selection from The Communist manifesto. Essay by Hunter Baker; title: Charles Darwin. Introduction. Selection from On the origin of species. Essay by Phil Johnson; title: Leo Tolstoy. Introduction. Selection from Anna Karenina. Essay by Frederica Mathewes-Green. Essay by Amy Obrist; title: Fyodor Dostoevsky. Introduction. Selection from The Brothers Karamazov. Essay by John Granger; title: Friedrich Nietzsche. Introduction. Selection from Genealogy of morals. Essay by Fred Sanders; title: G.K. Chesterton. Introduction. Selection from Orthodoxy. Essay by Dale Ahlquist.