Religious Classics - Boxed Set

A Literary Treasury of Faith, Doubt, Redemption, and the Religious ImaginationDe Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Gustave Flaubert, Mark Twain, Henryk Sienkiewicz, Dante Alighieri, George MacDonald, Anatole France, Henry Van Dyke, Robert Hugh Benson, Arthur Christopher Benson, Leonid Andreyev, John Bunyan, Eden Phillpotts, Grace Livingston Hill, Voltaire, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Elizabeth Miller, Lew Wallace, John Milton, Charles M. Sheldon, Marie Corelli, John Henry Newman, G. K. Chesterton, C. S. Lewis, Friedrich Nietzsche, Anton Chekhov, Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Prentice Mulford

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Religious Classics—Boxed Set gathers an unusually capacious canon of spiritual, philosophical, and literary inquiry, ranging from allegory, sermon, devotional reflection, and apologetics to parable, satire, realist fiction, and metaphysical poetry. Medieval vision, Reformation-era moral imagination, Enlightenment critique, and modern psychological drama meet in a volume that treats religion not as a single doctrine but as a continuing argument about conscience, suffering, grace, doubt, and social obligation. Landmark imaginative journeys and searching examinations of faith stand beside works that test inherited belief through irony and dissent. Its contributors span European, Russian, American, and British traditions, bringing Catholic, Protestant, Orthodox, humanist, mystical, and skeptical perspectives into productive tension. Poets, novelists, theologians, public moralists, and philosophical provocateurs collectively trace the transformation of religious expression from classical Christian epic and Puritan allegory to nineteenth-century realism and twentieth-century apologetics. Their varied cultural settings illuminate the enduring relation between private conviction and public life, particularly amid modernity's challenges to authority and certainty. This boxed set is recommended for readers seeking both an introduction to religious literature and a sustained comparative encounter with its major forms. It offers exceptional educational breadth: each selection clarifies, complicates, or contests the others. Reading across these voices reveals how literary art can preserve belief, interrogate it, and make its deepest questions newly legible.

Jornada Redenção Poético Sobrenatural Identidade Profecia Psicológico Exploração Deuses e mortais Luto Herói Traição Memória Família Amadurecimento

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GêneroSpirituality and Religion, Christian & Inspirational

Duração336 h 30 min

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FormatoeBook com áudio

Data de publicação11 de dez. de 2023

IdiomaInglês

Sumário

1Christian Collection: Scripture, History, Theology, Spirituality and Fiction (Annotated)

2Innocence Once Lost - Religious Classics Collection

3Divine Comedy (Dante Alighieri)

4Inferno

5Canto I. The Dark Forest. The Hill of Difficulty. The Panther, the Lion, and the Wolf. Virgil.

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6Canto II. The Descent. Dante's Protest and Virgil's Appeal. The Intercession of the Three Ladies Benedight.

7Canto III. The Gate of Hell. The Inefficient or Indifferent. Pope Celestine V. The Shores of Acheron.

8Canto IV. The First Circle, Limbo: Virtuous Pagans and the Unbaptized. The Four Poets, Homer, Horace, Ovid, and Lucan. The Noble Castle of Philosophy.

9Canto V. The Second Circle: The Wanton. Minos. The Infernal Hurricane. Francesca da Rimini.

10Canto VI. The Third Circle: The Gluttonous. Cerberus. The Eternal Rain. Ciacco. Florence.

11Canto VII. The Fourth Circle: The Avaricious and the Prodigal. Plutus. Fortune and her Wheel. The Fifth Circle: The Irascible and the Sullen. Styx.

12Canto VIII. Phlegyas. Philippo Argenti. The Gate of the City of Dis.

13Canto IX. The Furies and Medusa. The Angel. The City of Dis. The Sixth Circle: Heresiarchs.

14Canto X. Farinata and Cavalcante de' Cavalcanti. Discourse on the Knowledge of the Damned.

15Canto XI. The Broken Rocks. Pope Anastasius. General Description of the Inferno and its Divisions.

16Canto XII. The Minotaur. The Seventh Circle: The Violent. The River Phlegethon. The Violent against their Neighbours. The Centaurs. Tyrants.

17Canto XIII. The Wood of Thorns. The Harpies. The Violent against themselves. Suicides. Pier della Vigna. Lano and Jacopo da Sant' Andrea.

18Canto XIV. The Sand Waste and the Rain of Fire. The Violent against God. Capaneus. The Statue of Time, and the Four Infernal Rivers.

19Canto XV. The Violent against Nature. Brunetto Latini.

20Canto XVI. Guidoguerra, Aldobrandi, and Rusticucci. Cataract of the River of Blood.

21Canto XVII. Geryon. The Violent against Art. Usurers. Descent into the Abyss of Malebolge.

22Canto XVIII. The Eighth Circle, Malebolge: The Fraudulent and the Malicious. The First Bolgia: Seducers

23Canto XIX. The Third Bolgia: Simoniacs. Pope Nicholas III. Dante's Reproof of corrupt Prelates.

24Canto XX. The Fourth Bolgia: Soothsayers. Amphiaraus, Tiresias, Aruns, Manto, Eryphylus, Michael Scott, Guido Bonatti, and Asdente. Virgil reproaches Dante's Pity. Mantua's Foundation.

25Canto XXI. The Fifth Bolgia: Peculators. The Elder of Santa Zita. Malacoda and other Devils.

26Canto XXII. Ciampolo, Friar Gomita, and Michael Zanche. The Malabranche quarrel.

27Canto XXIII. Escape from the Malabranche. The Sixth Bolgia: Hypocrites. Catalano and Loderingo. Caiaphas.

28Canto XXIV. The Seventh Bolgia: Thieves. Vanni Fucci. Serpents.

29Canto XXV. Vanni Fucci's Punishment. Agnello Brunelleschi, Buoso degli Abati, Puccio Sciancato, Cianfa de' Donati, and Guercio Cavalcanti.

30Canto XXVI. The Eighth Bolgia: Evil Counsellors. Ulysses and Diomed. Ulysses' Last Voyage.

31Canto XXVII. Guido da Montefeltro. His deception by Pope Boniface VIII.

32Canto XXVIII. The Ninth Bolgia: Schismatics. Mahomet and Ali. Pier da Medicina, Curio, Mosca, and Bertrand de Born.

33Canto XXIX. Geri del Bello. The Tenth Bolgia: Alchemists. Griffolino d' Arezzo and Capocchino.

34Canto XXX. Other Falsifiers or Forgers. Gianni Schicchi, Myrrha, Adam of Brescia, Potiphar's Wife, and Sinon of Troy.

35Canto XXXI. The Giants, Nimrod, Ephialtes, and Antaeus. Descent to Cocytus.

36Canto XXXII. The Ninth Circle: Traitors. The Frozen Lake of Cocytus. First Division, Caina: Traitors to their Kindred. Camicion de' Pazzi. Second Division, Antenora: Traitors to their Country. Dante questions Bocca degli Abati. Buoso da Duera.

37Canto XXXIII. Count Ugolino and the Archbishop Ruggieri. The Death of Count Ugolino's Sons. Third Division of the Ninth Circle, Ptolomaea: Traitors to their Friends. Friar Alberigo, Branco d' Oria.

38Canto XXXIV. Fourth Division of the Ninth Circle, the Judecca: Traitors to their Lords and Benefactors. Lucifer, Judas Iscariot, Brutus, and Cassius. The Chasm of Lethe. The Ascent.

39Purgatorio

40I. The Shores of Purgatory. The Four Stars. Cato of Utica. The Rush.

41II. The Celestial Pilot. Casella. The Departure.

42III. Discourse on the Limits of Reason. The Foot of the Mountain. Those who died in Contumacy of Holy Church. Manfredi.

43IV. Farther Ascent. Nature of the Mountain. The Negligent, who postponed Repentance till the last Hour. Belacqua.

44V. Those who died by Violence, but repentant. Buonconte di Monfeltro. La Pia.

45VI. Dante's Inquiry on Prayers for the Dead. Sordello. Italy.

46VII. The Valley of Flowers. Negligent Princes.

47VIII. The Guardian Angels and the Serpent. Nino di Gallura. The Three Stars. Currado Malaspina.

48IX. Dante's Dream of the Eagle. The Gate of Purgatory and the Angel. Seven P's. The Keys.

49X. The Needle's Eye. The First Circle: The Proud. The Sculptures on the Wall.

50XI. The Humble Prayer. Omberto di Santafiore. Oderisi d' Agobbio. Provenzan Salvani.