The great books reader : excerpts and essays on the most influential books in western civilization / (editor) John Mark Reynolds.

Electronic resources
Record details
- ISBN: 9781441259905
- ISBN: 1441259902
- Physical Description: 1 online resource
- Publisher: Grand Rapids : Baker Pub. Group, 2011.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Introduction On Reading Excerpts of Great Books; Chapter One Homer; Chapter Two Plato; Chapter Three Aristotle; Chapter Four Virgil; Chapter Five Augustine; Chapter Six Boethius; Chapter Seven Thomas Aquinas; Chapter Eight Dante Alighieri; Chapter Nine Geoffrey Chaucer; Chapter Ten Desiderius Erasmus; Chapter Eleven John Calvin; Chapter Twelve Edmund Spenser; Chapter Thirteen Miguel de Cervantes; Chapter Fourteen William Shakespeare; Chapter Fifteen René Descartes; Chapter Sixteen John Milton; Chapter Seventeen Blaise Pascal. Chapter Eighteen John Locke, Part OneChapter Nineteen John Locke, Part Two; Chapter Twenty Isaac Newton; Chapter Twenty-One John Wesley; Chapter Twenty-Two Jane Austen; Chapter Twenty-Three Alexis de Tocqueville; Chapter Twenty-Four Karl Marx; Chapter Twenty-Five Charles Darwin; Chapter Twenty-Six Leo Tolstoy; Chapter Twenty-Seven Fyodor Dostoevsky; Chapter Twenty-Eight Friedrich Nietzsche; Chapter Twenty-Nine G.K. Chesterton; About the Author; Translation Credits; Contributors. |
Summary, etc.: | Thirty 20-page excerpts of the most influential works of Western culture with essays on how they influenced Christian thought and practice. |
Source of Description Note: | Print version record. |
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Subject: | Christian philosophy. RELIGION > Christian Education > General. |
Genre: | Electronic books. |