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A Dissertation on the Books of Origen Against Celsus

"A Dissertation on the Books of Origen against Celsus" by Francis Cunningham. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten?or yet undiscovered gems?of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Heretics (Golden Deer Classics)

Though he was on the whole a fun loving and gregarious man, during adolescence Chesterton was troubled by thoughts of suicide. In Christianity he found answers to many of the dilemmas and paradoxes of life. Throughout Heretics he provides a very personal critique of contemporary religious notions. His consistently engaging but often wayward humour is mixed liberally with daring flights of fancy and some startling turns of thought. A highly original collection of essays, providing an invaluable contribution to one of the major debates of the last century - one that continues to exercise leading thinkers in the present one. Chapters 01 Introductory Remarks on the Importance of Orthodoxy 02 On the Negative Spirit 03 On Mr. Rudyard Kipling and Making the World Small 04 Mr. Bernard Shaw 05 Mr. H. G. Wells and the Giants 06 Christmas and the Esthetes 07 Omar and the Sacred Vine 08 The Mildness of the Yellow Press 09 The Moods of Mr. George Moore 10 On Sandals and Simplicity 11 Science and the Savages 12 Paganism and Mr. Lowes Dickinson 13 Celts and Celtophiles 14 On Certain Modern Writers and the Institution of the Family 15 On Smart Novelists and the Smart Set 16 On Mr. McCabe and a Divine Frivolity 17 On the Wit of Whistler 18 The Fallacy of the Young Nation 19 Slum Novelists and the Slums 20 Concluding Remarks on the Importance of Orthodoxy

Modern Substitutes for Christianity

"Modern Substitutes for Christianity" by Pearson M'Adam Muir. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten?or yet undiscovered gems?of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Orthodoxy

Now with a foreword by Matthew Lee AndersonAntiquated. Unimaginative. Repressive. We've all heard these common reactions to orthodox Christian beliefs. Even Christians themselves are guilty of the tendency to discard historic Christianity. Yet as we read through the literature in Christianity?s past, we learn that we are in better company with our beliefs than we might think. Through his enchanting book, Orthodoxy, G.K. Chesterton reminds us of the paradoxes of our faith and the joy that comes when we explore them.From the foreword by Matthew Lee Anderson, author of The End of Our Exploring:?How can we contrive to be at once astonished at the world and yet at home in it?? And with that question, G.K. Chesterton recounts the heart of an intellectual journey that took him from the edges of a nihilistic pessimism into the center of the paradoxical joy of Christian orthodoxy. His book is not a defense of the Christian faith, at least not primarily, so much as an attempt to explain how the startling paradoxes and sharp edges of the creed explain everything else. It is a dated work, dealing in the categories and concerns of Chesterton?s contemporaries, and yet it comes nearer timelessness than anything we have today. Though Orthodoxy was written near the start of the 20th century, I have dubbed it the most important book for the 21st. There are few claims I have made in my life that I am more sure of than that one.

The City of God, Volume I

"The glorious city of God is my theme in this work, which you, my dearest son Marcellinus, suggested, and which is due to you by my promise. I have undertaken its defence against those who prefer their own gods to the Founder of this city,?a city surpassingly glorious, whether we view it as it still lives by faith in this fleeting course of time, and sojourns as a stranger in the midst of the ungodly, or as it shall dwell in the fixed stability of its eternal seat, which it now with patience waits for, expecting until "righteousness shall return unto judgment," and it obtain, by virtue of its excellence, final victory and perfect peace. A great work this, and an arduous; but God is my helper." -an excerpt

The Inquisition a Critical and Historical Study of the Coercive Power of the Church

An apologetical work on the basis and historical background of the Inquisition. "The best defense of the Inquisition, he holds, consists in examining and judging it, not with regard to the condemnable conduct of others, but with regard to the principles of morality, justice and religion. And the writer keeps his promise to the reader, and exposes the facts with frank sincerity" - Catholic World