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The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester In the Beginning...Was the Command Line by Neal Stephenson Hyperion by Dan Simmons The Fall of Hyperion by Dan Simmons Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis Gödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas R. Hofstadter Beowulf by Unknown Life Together by Dietrich Bonhoeffer The Iliad by Homer The Odyssey by Homer Silence by Shūsaku Endō
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Book cover for The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self: Cultural Amnesia, Expressive Individualism, and the Road to Sexual Revolution
The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self: Cultural Amnesia, Expressive Individualism, and the Road to Sexual Revolution by Carl R. Trueman
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Rieff expresses this thinking as follows: Culture and sacred order are inseparable, the former the registration of the latter as a systemic expression of the practical relation between humans and the shadow aspect of reality as it is lived. ...more
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“For heart that is pitiless counteth not the power that pity hath, of which stern anger may be forged and a lightning kindled before which mountains fall.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fall of Gondolin
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Biography, Book Club, Christian, Classics, Contemporary, Cookbooks, Cooking, Fantasy, Fiction, Food, Historical fiction, History, Mystery, Non-fiction, Philosophy, Politics, Psychology, Religion, Science, Science fiction, Self help, Spirituality, and War


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