Universally known and admired as a peacemaker, Dag Hammarskjold concealed a remarkable intense inner life which he recorded over several decades in this journal of poems and spiritual meditations, lef
John Donne (1572-1631) is best known as the greatest English metaphysical poet. But there was another dimension to Donne's life and writing that, if less well known, is no less profound and beautiful.
This indispensable guide to the search for kinship with God was written by the great nineteenth-century Danish philosopher Soren Kierkegaard (1813-1855), whose writings set the stage for existentialis
Now available together in a single volume, these two classics were written by seventeenth-century England's most famous prisoner of conscience, Baptist John Bunyan (1628-88). Imprisoned for twelve ye
The essential thoughts of Pope John Paul II on matters of belief and conscience have been culled from his encyclicals, speeches, homilies, and statements to fellow bishops and collected in one volume.
"God is our home but many of us have strayed from our native land.??The venerable authors of these Spiritual Classics are expert guides--may we follow their directions home."??--Archbishop Desmond Tut
A reissue of a classic of the Christian text from the founder of the Jesuit Order.The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyla is the core work of religious formation for members of the Society of
Francis de Sales’s Introduction to the Devout Life has remained a uniquely accessible and relevant treasure of devotion for nearly four hundred years. As Bishop of Geneva in the first quarter of the s
"The most important, the most influential, and the most luminous of all Hindu scriptures." --R.C. ZaehnerThe Bhagavad Gita (in Sanskrit, "Song of the Lord") is the most famous poem in all of Hindu lit
The bestselling dystopian novel that inspired the 1970s science-fiction classic starring Michael York, Jenny Agutter, and Richard Jordan.In 2116, it is against the law to live beyond the age of twenty
Mohandas K. Gandhi, called Mahatma (“great soul”), was the father of modern India, but his influence has spread well beyond the subcontinent and is as important today as it was in the first part of th
With a new Preface by the noted writer Madeleine L'Engle, author of nearly fifty books of fiction and non-fiction, including A Wrinkle in Time. St. Francis of Assisi's ecstatic embrace of a life of po
Only the Bible has been more influential as a source of Christian devotional reading than The Imitation of Christ. This meditation on the spiritual life has inspired readers from Thomas More and St. I
The world in which we live, with its emphasis on materialism over spirituality, would have been all too familiar to John Henry Newman, the celebrated nineteenth-century Anglican preacher who converted
