The Library
1774 works catalogued century by century, from the literature the Bible was written among to the present — each with a note on what it is, why it lasted, and where to read it.
1201–1300
1 work
c. 1240–1260
Latin
David of Augsburg · c. 1200–1272
A novice master's practical guidance on the stages of prayer and the reform of the inner and outer person, written without visionary claims of any kind.
1301–1400
1 work
c. 1294–1302
Middle High German
Die rede der underscheidunge
Meister Eckhart · c. 1260–1328
Table talk for young friars on obedience, detachment, and why a person who has learned to find God in one place will find him everywhere, including in the stable.
1401–1500
1 work
c. 1425–1440
Latin
Thomas à Kempis · c. 1380–1471
Conferences to young canons on humility, silence, the danger of curiosity, and the ordinary discipline of a house of the Common Life.
1601–1700
2 works
1623
French
Pierre de Bérulle · 1575–1629
A christocentric spirituality of adoration and self-abasement before the incarnate Word, with the human person defined by its capacity to be possessed by God.
c. 1650–1657
French
Jean-Jacques Olier · 1608–1657
The spirituality of the Sulpician seminaries — adoration of the Word, union with Jesus, and a method of prayer taught to generations of French priests.
1901–2000
1 work
1998
English
Dallas Willard · 1935–2013
A philosopher's argument that the gospel has been reduced to a transaction about the afterlife, and a recovery of Jesus as a teacher whose Sermon on the Mount describes an available kind of life in the kingdom now.
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