Contents
The devotional and theological works that shaped Western Christianity, from Augustine to the Reformation. These are the books that get reprinted and sold; all of them are long out of copyright.
The Fathers and the medieval church
- The Confessions of St. Augustine — Augustine's Confessions in Pusey's translation, the standard English text for a century.
- The Imitation of Christ — Thomas à Kempis. After the Bible, the most widely read Christian devotional book ever written.
- The Cell of Self-Knowledge : seven early English mystical treatises… — Seven early English mystical treatises, including part of the Cloud of Unknowing tradition.
- Light, Life, and Love: Selections from the German Mystics of the Middle… — Eckhart, Tauler, Suso and the Rhineland mystics, selected by Dean Inge.
Reformation and after
- Disputation of Doctor Martin Luther on the Power and Efficacy of… — The Ninety-Five Theses, 1517.
- The Apology of the Augsburg Confession — Melanchthon's defence of the Augsburg Confession.
- Fox's Book of Martyrs: Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and… — Foxe's Book of Martyrs. A perennial reprint seller.
- The Pilgrim's Progress from this world to that which is to come… — Bunyan's allegory, 1678. Continuously in print for three and a half centuries.
- The Practice of the Presence of God — Brother Lawrence's letters and conversations. Very short — a good first sideload.
- Paradise Lost — Milton's epic. Not scripture, but it is how most English speakers picture the fall.
Related
- Religious Texts — the rest of the shelf.
- The Reading Room — the library, and how to load these onto a device.
- E-readers and Kindle — getting these files onto a device.