Dieses kleine Buch von Maulana Muhammad Ali, dem berühmten Ãbersetzer des Heiligen Korans, ist vielleicht eine der besten kurzen Präsentationen der Religion des Islam.
Alkibiades II (Zweiter Alkibiades oder Kleiner Alkibiades, lateinisch Alcibiades minor) ist ein antiker literarischer Dialog in griechischer Sprache, der angeblich von Platon stammt, aber heute in der Forschung als unecht gilt.
The author treats the life and work of Christ and his disciples in this volume from the standpoint of a believer to believers, and as a Christian to Christians.
Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher war protestantischer Theologe, Altphilologe, Philosoph, Publizist, Staatstheoretiker, Kirchenpolitiker und Pädagoge.
The City of the Sun is a dialogue between "e;a Grandmaster of the Knights Hospitaller and a Genoese Sea-Captain,"e; The book describes a theocratic society where goods, women and children are held in common.
This carefully crafted book contains the most influential works of Sir Thomas Browne, including a spiritual testament and an early psychological self-portrait, "e;Religio Medici"e; and a work about the discovery of a Roman urn burial in Norfolk, Hydriotaphia.
Aurora oder Morgenröte im Aufgang, in Anspielung auf die Braut des Hohen Liedes, 6,10, ist der Titel des Erstlings- und Hauptwerkes des Mystikers, Pansophen, Theosophen, oder einfach nur tiefreligiösen Menschen Jakob Böhme, der als Schuster in Görlitz lebte, geschrieben 1612.
Men would never be superstitious, if they could govern all their circumstances by set rules, or if they were always favoured by fortune: but being frequently driven into straits where rules are useless, and being often kept fluctuating pitiably between hope and fear by the uncertainty of fortune''s greedily coveted favours, they are consequently, for the most part, very prone to credulity.
Boethius' best-known work is the "e;Consolations of Philosophy"e; written during his imprisonment -- "e;by far the most interesting example of prison literature the world has ever seen.