Spiritual classics
By: [edited by James M. Russell]
Publisher: Magpie Books
Published: 2009
Language: eng
Number of pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9781849011266; 9781845297855
Subjects: Spirituality; Spiritual life
Description: "The aim of this book is to provide brief introductions to some of the world's spiritual classics"--Page ix.

This book offers the basics of what you need to know about fifty-two great spiritual books.

Mind Body Spirit.
Notes: "The thinking person's guide to great spiritual books"--Cover.

Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Early Christian classics:; title: Saying of the Desert Fathers, The Desert Fathers; title: City of God, Augustine; title: The cloud of unknowing, Anonymous; title: The mirror of simple souls, Marguerite Porete; title: The little flowers of St. Francis, Anonymous; title: Collected works, Meister Eckhart; title: The interior castle, Teresa of Avila; title: Dark night of the soul, St. John of the Cross; title: The way of Christ, Jacob Boehme; title: The pilgrim's progress, John Bunyan; title: Later Christian writings:; title: The way of a pilgrim, Anonymous; title: Orthodoxy, G.K. Chesterton; title: The screwtape letters, C.S. Lewis; title: True spirituality, Francis A. Schaeffer; title: The return of the prodigal son, Henry Nouwen; title: The reason for God, Timothy Keller; title: Approaches to prayer:; title: A short and easy method of prayer, Madame Guyon; title: A diary of private prayer, John Baillie; title: Letters by a modern mystic, Frank Laubach; title: A testament of devotion, Thomas R. Kelly; title: The pursuit of God, A.W. Tozer; title: Beginning to pray, Anthony Bloom; title: Meditations & praise of solitude:; title: Purity of heart is to will one thing, S©ıren Kierkegaard; title: Walden, Henry David Thoreau; title: Leaves from the notebook of a tamed cynic, Karl Paul Reinhold Niebuhr; title: Gravity and grace, Simone Weil; title: One day in the life of Ivan Denisovich, Aleksandr Solzenhitzyn; title: Poustinia, Catherine Doherty; title: Lives of inspiration:; title: The journal of George Fox, George Fox; title: The Journal of John Woolman, John Woolman; title: A confession, Leo Tolstoy; title: The cost of discipleship, Dietrich Bonhoeffer; title: The seven storey mountain, Thomas Merton; title: The normal Christian life, Watchman Nee; title: Community and growth, Jean Vanier; title: No greater love, Mother Theresa; title: Secular texts:; title: Songs of innocence and experience, William Blake; title: The idiot, Fyodor Dostoevsky; title: The varieties of religious experience, William James; title: Modern man is search of a soul, Carl Jung; title: The little prince,  Antoine de Saint-Exupery; title: Franny and Zooey, J.D. Salinger; title: The soul bird, Michal Snunit; title: Alternative approaches:; title: Tao Te Ching, Lao Tzu; title: Letters on the Sufi path, Ibn Abbad of Ronda; title: Spiritual couplets, Rumi; title: Siddhartha, Hermann Hesse; title: The prophet, Kahlil Gibran; title: Essay in Zen Buddhism, D.T. Suzuki; title: The teachings of Don Juan : a Yaqui way of knowledge, Carlos Castaneda; title: Be here now, Ram Dass; title: The power of now, Eckhart Tolle.