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.
101–200
1 work
c. 150–230
Greek, surviving in Coptic
Anonymous
A female voice speaks entirely in contradictions: the first and the last, the honoured and the scorned, the whore and the holy one, the barren woman with many sons. There is no narrative and no cosmology, only the paradoxes.
1601–1700
1 work
1657
German
Der Cherubinische Wandersmann
Angelus Silesius · 1624–1677
Sixteen hundred rhymed couplets of mystical paradox — the rose is without why, and God would perish if the poet ceased to be.
1901–2000
1 work
1908
English
G. K. Chesterton · 1874–1936
Chesterton's account of how he tried to invent a philosophy of his own and discovered he had rediscovered Christianity — argued through paradox, fairy tales, and the claim that orthodoxy is the wildest of the options rather than the safest.
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