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Forty Centuries of Christian Writing

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.

1601–1700

The Seventeenth Century

1 work

published 1692

French

The Practice of the Presence of God

Brother Lawrence of the Resurrection · c. 1614–1691

Conversations and letters collected after the death of a lay brother who worked in a monastery kitchen and claimed to possess God as peacefully among his pots and pans as on his knees.

Catholic (Carmelite) · Conversations and letters1 ThessaloniansRead elsewhere