Insight: 240 books

This landmark work provides a sweeping and comprehensive orientation, foundation, and guide to making the most radical of revolutions: a communist revolution aimed at emancipating humanity— getting beyond all forms of oppression and exploitation on a world scale.This book is a masterwork and a master...

The sheer design and intention of the work has been to compose a comprehensive work, which should serve as a comprehensive mural of knowledge regarding the ancient world and their tendencies. This work addresses the variant tendencies of each period and its respective authors/ orators of thought. The...

The sheer design and intention of the work has been to compose a comprehensive work, which should serve as a comprehensive mural of knowledge regarding the ancient world and their tendencies. This work addresses the variant tendencies of each period and its respective authors/ orators of thought....

You are about to embark upon a simple and impartial account of Judaism on the one hand, and a perusal of the Gospels on the other, constituting one of the most convincing proofs of the Divine origin of the Christian religion, and of its organic connection with that of the Old Testament. Again, it is...

Within this third volume is the whole treatise, initially presented in two parts: “The Mystery of the True Vine” and “The Fruit of the Vine” From the early days of Christianity the Vine/ vineyard has been a cornerstone of the church as evidenced in the following: Of all the great individuals...

In summarizing the themes of this book: “The... Eastern Christian themes [exemplified by the writings of Pseudo-Macarius] can be seen in Upham’s Treatise on Divine Union. In this volume he analyzes carefully the origins, grounds and goals of the relationship between God and humans as well as the...

IN order to avoid a misunderstanding to which the very title of this work might lead, it cannot be too forcibly stated that the Mystical Life is not with any infallible certainty the outcome of our own personal effort, however rightly that effort may have been made. Let us suppose that a soul has...

We have grown indeed, but in worldly wisdom, and the unquestioning and undivided love we vowed to God when we were little has been scattered to the winds. We found it would cost us a great effort, and a life-long one, to love God as we should, to keep on loving Him as children do, so we compromised...

It is hard to know how to characterize Bernard of Clairvaux. On the one hand, he is called the “honey-tongued doctor” for his eloquent writings on the love of God. On the other hand, he rallied soldiers to kill Muslims during the Crusades. He wrote eloquently on humility; then again, he loved being...

The objective of this effort is to bring together the thoughts and anecdotes from history’s greatest minds regarding the issues confounding many Christians. Within this volume are an array of topics, which begin with the letters S thru Z. The responses, admonition and precepts presented within these...

Ramon Lull, the “Apostle of Africa.” Lull lived far back in the thirteenth century, not long after the days of St. Francis of Assisi, whose disciple he was. He gives us, as it were, a pre-vision of the splendors of that ‘Golden Age of Mysticism’, which dawned for Spain three hundred years after...

This is a great and almost excessive improvement on St. Augustine’s doctrine, and on that of the early medieval writers. Hugh considered that the study of Sacred Scripture and its historical and literal meaning makes possible true and proper theology, that is, the systematic illustration of truths,...

The Catholic ideal is the ascetic life. The true monk is the perfect Christian. “This”, says Thomas a Kempis “is the highest wisdom, by contempt of the world to make for the regions of heaven.” Possession of property, marriage, fatherhood blind a man’s eyes to life’s greatest possibility,...

Charles. H. Spurgeon: The man, the myth, the legend. There are few who can achieve what he has in such a short time. Moreover, few have amassed the written works as Spurgeon, The few who may be considered are the likes of Thomas Aquinas, Albert the Great, Bonaventure and Bernard to name a few. In...