Catholic Classics Reading List
Theology and Spirituality: Ancient |
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Augustine of Hippo |
Confessions, City of God, On Christian Doctrine, On the Free Choice of the Will |
Basil of Caesaria |
On the Holy Spirit |
Athanasius |
The Life of Antony, On the Incarnation |
Benedict of Nursia |
The Rule of St. Benedict |
Clement of Alexandria |
Protrepticus, Paedagogus, Stromata |
Cyril of Jerusalem |
Catechetical Lectures |
Gregory of Nazianzus |
Theological Orations, Homilies on "Our Father" |
Gregory of Nyssa |
Life of Moses |
Boethius, Anicius |
The Consolation of Philosophy |
Ireneaus |
Against Heresies |
Justin Martyr |
First Apology, Second Apology |
Origen |
On First Principles, Commentaries |
Pseudo-Dionysius |
Divine Names, Mystical Theology |
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Theology and Spirituality: Medieval |
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Abelard, Peter |
Sic et Non, Letters |
Anselm of Canterbury |
Monologion, Proslogion, Cur Deus Homo? |
Aquinas, Thomas |
Summa Theologiae, Summa Contra Gentiles, Questiones de Veritate |
Bede, Venerable |
Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum |
Bernard of Clairvaux |
Commentary on the Song of Songs, Sermons |
Bonaventure |
Life of St. Francis, Itinerarium, Collationes de Hexameron, Sermons |
Catherine of Sienna |
Dialogues |
Eckhart, Meister |
Sermons |
Julian of Norwich |
Showings |
Richard of St. Victor |
On the Trinity |
Ruysbroeck, John |
The Spiritual Espousals |
Scotus, Duns |
Ordinatio, De Primo Principio |
Thomas a Kempis |
The Imitation of Christ |
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Theology and Spirituality: Reformation-19th Century |
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Bellarmine, Robert |
Ordinatio |
Borromeo, Charles |
Tridentine Catechism |
de Sales, Francis |
Letters of Spiritual Direction |
Erasmus, Desiderius |
Praise of Folly, Enchiridion |
Ignatius of Loyola |
Autobiography, Spiritual Exercises |
John of the Cross |
Ascent of Mount Carmel, The Flame of Love |
Lamennais, Felicite de |
Ouvres complètes de Lamennais |
Liguori, Alphonsus |
The Great Means of Salvation and Perfection |
Newman, John Henry |
Grammar of Assent, University Sermons, The Idea of a University |
Pascal, Blaise |
Pensees |
Teresa of Avila |
Interior Castle |
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Theology and Spirituality: 20th Century-Contemporary |
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Adam, Karl |
The Spirit of Catholicism |
Blondel, Maurice |
L'Action |
Chenu, Marie-Dominique |
Aquinas and His Role in Theology |
Congar, Yves |
I Believe in the Holy Spirit |
Day, Dorothy |
The Long Loneliness |
Danielou, Jean |
Prayer: The Heart of the Church |
De Lubac, Henri |
Surnatural, The Drama of Atheistic Humanism |
Dulles, Avery Cardinal |
Models of the Church |
Gilson, Etienne |
The Spirit of Medieval Philosophy |
Guardini, Romano |
The Lord, Letters from Lake Como |
Gutierrez, Gustavo |
A Theology of Liberation |
Haring, Bernard |
Free and Faithful in Christ |
Lisieux, Therese of |
The Story of a Soul |
Lonergan, Bernard |
Insight, Method in Theology |
Maritain, Jacques |
The Degrees of Knowledge, Integral Humanism |
Merton, Thomas |
The Seven Storey Mountain |
Metz, Johannes Baptist |
Faith in History and Society |
Mother Teresa |
Letters |
Murray, John Courtney |
We Hold These Truths |
Nouwen, Henri |
The Wounded Healer |
Rahner, Karl |
Theological Investigations, Foundations of Christian Faith |
Ratzinger, Joseph |
Introduction to Christianity |
Ruether, Rosemary Radford |
Sexism and God-Talk |
Schillebeeckx, Edward |
Jesus, Christ, Church |
Sertillanges, A.G. |
The Intellectual Life |
Teilhard de Chardin, Pierre |
The Phenomenon of Man, The Divine Milieu |
Vanier, Jean |
Community and Growth |
von Balthasar, Hans Urs |
Glory of the Lord |
Wojtyla, Karol |
Love and Responsibility |
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Philosophy: Ancient |
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Augustine |
Confessions, On the Free Choice of the Will, The City of God |
Boethius |
The Consolation of Philosophy |
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Philosophy: Medieval |
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Abelard, Peter |
Sic et Non |
Anselm of Canterbury |
Monologion, Proslogion |
Aquinas, Thomas |
Summa Theologiae, Summa Contra Gentiles, Commentary on the Sentences |
Bonaventure |
Itinerarium, Commentary on the Sentences of Peter Lombard |
Cusa, Nicholas of |
On the Vision of God |
Lombard, Peter |
The Sentences |
Ockham, William of |
Commentary on the Sentences of Peter Lombard |
Scotus, John Duns |
Commentary on the Sentences of Peter Lombard, De Primo Principio |
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Philosophy: Modern |
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Descartes, Rene |
Meditations on First Philosophy, Discourse on Method |
Galilei, Galileo |
Discourse on the Two Sciences |
Pascal, Blaise |
Pensees |
Newman, John Henry |
Grammar of Assent, University Sermons |
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Philosophy: 1900-Contemporary |
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Anscombe, Elizabeth |
Collected Philosophical Papers |
Copleston, Frederick |
History of Philosophy |
Gilson, Etienne |
The Spirit of Medieval Philosophy |
MacIntyre, Alasdair |
After Virtue |
Marcel, Gabriel |
Homo Viator |
Pieper, Josef |
Leisure: The Basis of Culture, The Cardinal Virtues |
Maritain, Jacques |
Degrees of Knowledge, Integral Humanism |
Taylor, Charles |
Sources of the Self, Varieties of Religion Today, A Secular Age |
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Literature: Medieval |
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Alighieri, Dante |
The Divine Comedy |
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Literature: 1500-1900 |
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Cervantes, Miguel de |
Don Quixote |
Bossuet, Jacques-Benigne |
Funeral Orations |
Donne, John |
The Major Works |
Hopkins, Gerard Manley |
Selected Poetry |
Montaigne, Michel de |
Meditations |
Thompson, Francis |
Poems |
Vico, Giambattista |
New Science |
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Literature: 20th-Contemporary |
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Belloc, Hiliare |
Selected Essays |
Boll, Heinrich |
The Stories of Heinrich Boll |
Bernanos, Georges |
Diary of a Country Priest |
Bloy, Leon |
Le Désespéré, La Femme pauvre |
Cairns, Scott |
Recovered Body |
Chesterton, G. K. |
Orthodoxy, The Man Who Was Thursday |
Claudel, Paul |
The Satin Slipper |
Dillard, Annie |
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, Holy the Firm |
Dubus, Andre |
Selected Stories, Meditations from a Movable Chair |
Endo, Shusaku |
Silence, Deep River, Jesus: A Life |
Everson, William |
Collected Poems |
Gordon, Mary |
The Company of Women |
Greene, Graham |
Monsignor Quixote, The End of the Affair, The Power and the Glory |
Hampl, Patricia |
Virgin Time |
Hansen, Ron |
Mariette in Ecstasy |
Heaney, Seamus |
Opened Ground: Selected Poems: 1966-1996 |
Helprin, Mark |
A Solidier of the Great War |
Hijuelos, Oscar |
Mr. Ives' Christmas |
Horgan, Paul |
Great River |
Jarman, Mark |
Unholy Sonnets |
Jones, David |
Anathemata |
Levertov, Denise |
The Stream and the Sapphire |
Levine, Philip |
The Mercy |
L'Heureux, John |
The Shrine at Altamira |
Lowell, Robert |
Lord Weary's Castle |
Mariani, Paul |
Salvage Operations |
McDermott, Alice |
Charming Billy |
Merton, Thomas |
The Seven Storey Mountain, New Seeds of Contemplation |
Milosz, Czeslaw |
Selected Poems |
Moore, Brian |
Black Robe |
Morrison, Toni |
Paradise |
Muggeridge, Malcolm |
Chronicles of Wasted Time |
O'Connor, Flannery |
Collected Works |
Peguy, Charles |
The Portal of the Mystery of Hope |
Percy, Walker |
The Last Gentleman, The Moviegoer, The Second Coming |
Powers, J. F. |
The Presence of Grace |
Rodriguez, Richard |
Hunger of Memory |
Sayers, Dorothy |
The Mind of the Maker |
Schneider, Reinhold |
Las Casas before Charles V |
Sheen, Fulton |
Life is Worth Living |
Silone, Ignazio |
Bread and Wine |
Spark, Muriel |
Memento Mori |
Tate, Allen |
Collected Poems |
Tolkien, J.R.R. |
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy |
Undset, Sigrid |
Kristin Lavreansdatter |
Waugh, Evelyn |
Brideshead Revisited |
Wilbur, Richard |
New and Collected Poems |
Wolff, Tobias |
In the Garden of the North American Martyrs |
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Catholic Social Thought |
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Catholic Social Thought: Magisterial Documents |
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Pope Leo XIII |
Rerum Novarum |
Pope Pius XI |
Quadragesimo Anno |
Pope John XXIII |
Mater et Magistra, Pacem in Terris |
Pope John XXIII |
Pacem in Terris |
Vatican Council II |
Gaudium et Spes, Dignitatis Humanae |
Pope Paul VI |
Populorum Progressio, Octogesima Adveniens |
Synod of Bishops |
Justice in the World |
Latin American Bishops |
Medellin Documents, Puebla Documents |
U.S. Catholic Bishops |
The Challenge of Peace |
Catholic Social Thought: 18th-19th Centuries |
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Orestes Brownson |
No Church, No Reform |
Isaac Hecker |
The Church and the Age |
Felicite de Lamennais |
Paroles D'un Croyant |
Bishop Wilhelm von Ketteler |
Christian Social Reform |
Frederic Ozanam |
Melanges |
Catholic Social Thought: 20th Century |
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Joseph Cardinal Bernardin |
A Consistent Ethic of Life: An American Catholic Dialogue |
Dorothy Day |
The Long Loneliness |
Madeleine Delbrel |
We the Ordinary People of the Streets |
Gustavo Gutierrez |
A Theology of Liberation |
John Lafarge |
The Catholic Viewpoint on Race Relations |
Jacques Maritain |
The Person and the Common Good |
Thomas Merton |
Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander |
Virgil Michel |
The Social Question |
John Courtney Murray |
We Hold These Truths |
John Ryan |
Distributive Justice |
Jean Vanier |
Community and Growth |