50 Spiritual Classics
An Anthology of Mysticism, Devotion, Moral Philosophy, and the Search for Ultimate MeaningBy Saint Augustine, U. G. Krishnamurti, Leo Tolstoy, C. H. Spurgeon, William Blake, Kahlil Gibran, John of the Cross, Ignatius of Loyola, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Thomas Browne, Basil the Great, Gregory of Nyssa, St. Teresa of Ávila, Thomas à Kempis, Thomas More, Blaise Pascal, George Müller, Ludwig Feuerbach, Jonathan Edwards, Evelyn Underhill, Charles Spurgeon, G. K. Chesterton, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, George MacDonald, Miguel de Unamuno, Reynold A. Nicholson, Frances Ridley Havergal, H. Emilie Cady, Anne Catherine Emmerich, Henry Scougal, Florence Scovel Shinn, Andrew Murray, Henry Drummond, Epictetus, Mahatma Gandhi, William James, Emanuel Swedenborg, William Walker Atkinson, Joseph Benner, Charles Fillmore, Edwin Sir Arnold, Ignatius of Antioch, John Donne, John Wesley, Helena Blavatsky
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50 Spiritual Classics surveys the enduring human search for transcendence, ethical transformation, inward freedom, and communion with the divine. Its selections range across confession, mystical meditation, sermon, philosophical reflection, devotional prose, poetry, and spiritual autobiography, placing patristic theology beside modern metaphysical inquiry. Contemplative landmarks, including writings on the interior life, coexist with provocative critiques of religion, making the volume a capacious map of spiritual literature rather than a narrowly doctrinal canon. The contributors span Christian antiquity, medieval and early modern devotion, Romantic and Victorian religious thought, Transcendentalism, Russian fiction, comparative mysticism, New Thought, and modern philosophical psychology. Church fathers, reformers, monastics, preachers, poets, novelists, skeptics, and seekers bring distinct cultural and theological inheritances to questions of grace, conscience, suffering, selfhood, and social responsibility. Their juxtaposition illuminates both the continuities and tensions among contemplative Christianity, Stoic ethics, Hindu-inflected nonviolence, esoteric traditions, and modern individualism. This volume is especially valuable for readers seeking an intellectually generous introduction to spiritual writing across centuries. It invites sustained comparison among divergent voices while offering rich material for courses in religion, literature, philosophy, and intellectual history. Readers will find not a single answer to spiritual longing, but an illuminating dialogue of methods, convictions, and imaginative forms.
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Publish dateJul 31, 2024
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Table of contents
1Discovering the New World
26The Fourth Mansions
2The Confessions of St. Augustine
27The Fifth Mansions
3BOOK I
28The Sixth Mansions (pt. 1)
4BOOK II
29The Sixth Mansions (pt. 2)
5BOOK III
30The Seventh Mansions
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6BOOK IV
31Conclusion
7BOOK V
32Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation
8BOOK VI
33BOOK ONE (pt. 1)
9BOOK VII
34BOOK ONE (pt. 2)
10BOOK VIII
35BOOK TWO (pt. 1)
11BOOK IX
36BOOK TWO (pt. 2)
12BOOK X
37BOOK THREE (pt. 1)
13BOOK XI
38BOOK THREE (pt. 2)
14BOOK XII
39Life of God in the Soul of Man
15BOOK XIII
40PART I.
16The Dark Night of the Soul
41Humility: The Journey Toward Holiness
17BOOK THE FIRST
42Humility – The Journey Toward Holiness
18BOOK THE SECOND (pt. 1)
43Chapter 1 -- Humility: The Glory of the Creature
19BOOK THE SECOND (pt. 2)
44Lord, Teach Us To Pray
20The Interior Castle
45'Lord, Teach Us To Pray.'
21Preface
46The Story of My Experiments with Truth
22Introduction
47INTRODUCTION
23The First Mansions
48PART I
24The Second Mansions
49I BIRTH AND PARENTAGE
25The Third Mansions
50II CHILDHOOD
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