Category - Religion

John Henry Newman, one of the towering figures of the early Victorian Church of England, caused shock and outrage in equal measure when he announ...

Written between the mid-fourth and late sixth centuries to commemorate and glorify the achievements of early Christian saints, these six biograph...

Hildegard, the "Sybil of the Rhine," was a Benedictine nun and one of the most prolific and original women writers of the Middle Ages. Arranged t...

The Desert Fathers were the first Christian monks, living in solitude in the deserts of Egypt, Palestine, and Syria. In contrast to the formalize...

'A free mind can achieve all things. But what is a free mind?'   Composed during a critical time in the evaluation of European intellectual life,...

Eusebius's account is the only surviving historical record of the Church during its crucial first 300 years. Bishop Eusebius, a learned scholar w...

In his reflections on Christianity, Saint Thomas Aquinas forged a unique synthesis of ancient philosophy and medieval theology. Preoccupied with ...

'All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well'Julian of Norwich is one of the most celebrated figures of the E...

Recorded in sacred Sanskrit texts, including the Rig Veda and the Mahabharata, Hindu Myths are thought to date back as far as the tenth century B...

The earliest of the four Hindu religious scriptures known as the Vedas, and the first extensive composition to survive in any Indo-European langu...

The spiritual text that forms the basis of Mormonism, in the last edition edited by its founder, Joseph Smith, Jr.The Book of Mormon is one of th...

A unique collection of funerary texts from a wide variety of sources, dating from the 15th to the 4th century BC Consisting of spells, prayers and ...

One of the key foundation books of the English Reformation, The Obedience of a Christian Man (1528) makes a radical challenge to the established ...

One of the most beloved stories of the Tibetan people and a great literary example of the contemplative lifeThe Life of Milarepa, a biography and...