Learning the Good Life: Wisdom from the Great Hearts and Minds That Came Before
- Grand Rapids, Michigan Zondervan Academic 2022
- 300p 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references.
Part 1: 450 BC to AD 600 1. Lao Tzu, From Tao Te Ching Introduction by Paul J. Pastor 2. Confucius, From The Analects. Introduction by Ravi Jain 3. Plato, "The Allegory of the Cave" Introduction by Jason Baehr 4. Seneca the Younger, From "On the Shortness of Life". Introduction by Matthew D. Wright 5. Athanasius, From On the Incarnation Introduction by Adam J. Johnson 6. Gregory of Nazianzus, On My Own Verses Introduction by Philip Irving Mitchell 7. Augustine of Hippo, From On the Teacher Introduction by J. L. Aijian 8. Augustine of Hippo, From On Christian Doctrine, Book 1 Introduction by Helen Rhee 9. Gregory the Great, Life of Saint Benedict, Dialogues, Book 2 Introduction by John Skillen Part 2: AD 600 to AD 1700 10. Dante Alighieri, Divine Comedy: Inferno 1. Introduction by Jason M. Baxter 11. Nezahualcoyotl, "A Flower Song of Nezahualcoyotl" Introduction by Timothy E. G. Bartel 12. Anonymous, "The Peace Prayer of Saint Francis" Introduction by Tuan Hoang 13. Margery Kempe, From "The Book of Margery Kempe". Introduction by Beth Allison Barr 14. William Shakespeare, From King Lear Introduction by Julianne Sandberg 15. John Amos Comenius, From The Labyrinth of the World and the Paradise of the Heart Introduction by David I. Smith 16. George Herbert, Five Poems Introduction by Jason Crawford 17. Matsuo Basho, Three Haiku Poems Introduction by Timothy E. G. Bartel and Blaise Pascal, From The Pensées 18. René Descartes, From Meditations on First Philosophy, Introduction by Ravi Jain 19. Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, "Respuesta a Sor Filotea de la Cruz? Introduction by Theresa M. Kenney 20. John Milton, From Areopagitica Introduction by Louis Markos Part 3: AD 1700 to AD 1900 21. Jonathan Edwards, From "Personal Narrative" Introduction by Jonathan Callis 22. Edmund Burke, From Reflections on the Revolution in France Introduction by Benjamin Myers 23. Alfred Lord Tennyson, From "Ulysses". Introduction by Scott H. Moore 24. Frederick Douglass, From Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave Introduction by H. Collin Messer 25. Elizabeth Barrett Browning, From Aurora Leigh. Introduction by Lanta Davis 26. Henry David Thoreau, From "Life without Principle" Introduction by Jeffrey Bilbro 27. Gerard Manley Hopkins, "As Kingfishers Catch Fire" Introduction by Jennifer L. Holberg 28. Jarena Lee, From Religious Experience. Introduction by Patricia Brown 29. Friedrich Nietzsche, From Use and Abuse of History Introduction by Scott Huelin 30. Anna Julia Cooper, From Womanhood: A Vital Element in the Part 4: AD 1900 to Present Day 31. W. E. B. DuBois, From The Souls of Black Folk Introduction by Angel Adams Parham 32. Virginia Woolf, From A Room of One's Own. Introduction by Bethany Williamson 33. G. K. Chesterton, "Modern Elfland" Introduction by J. Cameron Moore 34. T. S. Eliot, "Preludes". Introduction by Joy Moore 35. C. S. Lewis, "Learning in War-Time" Introduction by J. Cameron Moore 36. Dietrich Bonhoeffer, From Life Together. Introduction by David I. Smith 37. Simone Weil, "Reflections on the Right Use of School Studies Introduction by Paul J. Contino 38. Dorothy L. Sayers, From "The Lost Tools of Learning". Introduction by Gina Dalfonzo 39. Flannery O'Connor, "The Enduring Chill" Introduction by Julianna Leachman 40. Josef Pieper, From Leisure: The Basis of Culture and Introduction by Jay Beavers 41. David Foster Wallace, "This Is Water". Introduction by Rick Ostrander 42. Marilynne Robinson, From "Reclaiming a Sense of the Sacred". Introduction by Brent Newsom
"What is "the Good Life"? How can we live well and fully in the world? Learning the Good Life seeks to help readers answer these age-old questions through introducing them to timeless texts from some of history's wisest hearts and minds. In doing so it offers a broader, richer, and more cohesive narrative in which Christians may participate"--
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