REcOMMENdEd booKS: EArLy CHuRcH RELatEd
“But when God; who had chosen me and set me apart before I was born, and called me by His grace; was pleased to reveal His Son in me,that I might preach Him among the Gentiles,
my immediate decision was to not consult with any human being.
I did not go up to Jerusalem to those who were Apostles before me; but I went at once to Arabia, and afterwards returned again to Damascus;
after three years I went up to Jerusalem to see Peter, and stayed with him fifteen days.”
-The Apostle Paul (Galatians 1:15-18)
“You will not see anyone who is truly striving after his spiritual advancement who is not given to spiritual reading.”
-St. Athanasius, Bishop of Alexandria
(296-373 A.D.)
Our Monastery Library contains our 200 favorite Christian Books.
In the past, we have Reviewed all of them on our website.
For our Site Visitors,
we have narrowed them down to these that we consider to be the Best of the Best!
These Books may Be Available in Print, Audio, or Ebook Formats, and Free at Your Public Library.
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cOMMENtaRiiES & EARLY CHURCH cLaSSiCS
c.S. LEwiS ON REAdiNG OLd booKS:
“It is a good rule, after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between.
If that is too much for you, you should at least read one old one
to every three new ones.”
“On the Incarnation” by St. Athanasius –With an Introduction by C.S. Lewis
“We may be sure that…the blindness about
which posterity will ask,
‘But how could they have thought that?”’
-lies where we never suspected it…
None of us can fully escape this blindness,
but we shall certainly increase it…
…if we read only modern books.
Where they are true they will give us truths
which we half knew already.
Where they are false they will
aggravate the error with
which we are already dangerously ill.
The only palliative is to keep the clean sea
breeze of the centuries blowing through our minds,
and this can be done only
by reading old books.”
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-C.S. Lewis (1898-1963)
From his Introduction to:
“On the Incarnation” by St. Athanasius
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