The New Testament
Thoughts on the “Newness” of the New Testament
Where Did The New Testament Come From?
Notes on the Twelve Apostles of Jesus
The Story of the King James Bible
Matthew
Matthew Chapter 5-7: The Sermon on the Mount
Comparing the Death of Jesus in the Four Gospels
Mark
Comparing the Death of Jesus in the Four Gospels
Luke
Comparing the Death of Jesus in the Four Gospels
Notes on Luke-Acts
John
Comparing the Death of Jesus in the Four Gospels
On the Logos in the Gospel of John
Acts
Notes on Luke-Acts
Romans
The Law in Paul’s Epistle to the Romans
1 Corinthians
Discord in the Early Church: Paul’s Letters to the Corinthians
2 Corinthians
Discord in the Early Church: Paul’s Letters to the Corinthians
Galatians
Rejection of Mosaic Law in Galatians
Ephesians
Notes on Paul’s Letter to Ephesus
Philippians
Notes on Paul’s Letter to Philippi
Colossians
Notes on Paul’s Letter to Collossae
1 Thessolonians
Notes on Paul’s Two Letters to Thessolonica
2 Thessolonians
Notes on Paul’s Two Letters to Thessolonica
1 Timothy
On the Corpus Pastorale
2 Timothy
On the Corpus Pastorale
Titus
On the Corpus Pastorale
Philemon
A Brief Note on Philemon
Hebrews
“Jesus As Superior To Moses” – Thoughts on Hebrews
James
Thoughts on the Epistle of James
1 Peter
Peter’s Message in His First Epistle
2 Peter
The Question of Scriptural Authority in Peter’s Second Epistle
1 John
Eyewitness Testimony in the Johannine Epistles
2 John
Eyewitness Testimony in the Johannine Epistles
3 John
Eyewitness Testimony in the Johannine Epistles
Jude
Notes on the Unusual Epistle of Jude
Revelation
A Vision of Horror and Apocalypse in John’s Revelation
Selections from the Apocrypha, Gnostics, and texts from the Nag Hammadi Library
The Story of the Nag Hammadi Library
The Story of the Dead Sea Scrolls
The Shepherd of Hermas
Thoughts on the Shepherd of Hermas
The Epistle of Barnabas
Notes on the Epistle of Barnabas
The Gospel of Philip
Mary Magdalene in the Gospel of Philip
The Gospel of Thomas
Thoughts on the Gospel of Thomas
The Apocalypse of Peter
Two Texts Called The Apocalypse of Peter
1 Clement
On Clement’s Letter to the Corinthians
Didache
Thoughts on the Didache
Apostolic Father: Clement of Rome
On Clement’s Letter to the Corinthians
Apostolic Father: Ignatius of Antioch
On Ignatius’s Seven Epistles
Apostolic Father: Polycarp of Smyrna
On Polycarp’s Epistle to the Philippians
Apostolic Father: Papias of Hierapolis
Notes on the Fragments of Papias
Church Father: Justin Martyr
An Attempted Union of Hellenism and Christianity in Justin Martyr’s First Apology
Christianity Contra Judaism in Justin Martyr’s Dialogue with Trypho
Church Father: Clement of Alexandria
Clement’s Attack on Hellenism
Church Father: Irenaeus of Lyon
Irenaeus’s Attack on Heresy
Church Father: Origen of Alexandria
On Origen’s First Principles
Church Father: Athanasius of Alexandria
On Athanasius’s “On The Incarnation of the Word”
Thoughts on Asceticism in Athanasius’s Life of Antony
Church Father: Eusebius
On Eusebius’s Ecclesiastical History and the Origins of the Gospels
Church Father: Tertullian
Who Is Tertullian?
Church Doctor: St. Ambrose
Brief Notes on the Life of Saint Ambrose, Bishop of Milan
Church Doctor: Saint Augustine
Confessions
City of God
Church Doctor: St. Jerome
The Story of Jerome’s Vulgate
The Nicene Creed
Lives of the Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
Ignatius
Josephus
On the Sublime by Longinus
Satires by Lucian
Proclus
Porphyry
Iamblichus
The Code of Justinian
The Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius
Proslogion by Saint Anselm
The Qu’ran
The Thousand and One Nights
The Rubaiyat
Avicenna
Averroes
Beowulf
The Hymn by Bede
Le Roman de la Rosa
Niebelungenlied
The Summa Theologica by Thomas Aquinas
The Guide for the Perplexed by Maimonides
Duns Scotus
The Trial of Joan of Arc
The Almagest by Ptolemy
Enneads by Plotinus
The Kaddish
Dante Alighieri
The Divine Comedy (The Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso)
La Vita Nuova
Decameron by Giovanni Bocaccio
Chrétien de Troyes
Amadis de Gaula, by García Montalvo
In Praise of Folly by Erasmus
Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales
Who Is Geoffrey Chaucer?
Chaucer’s Silence: On the General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales
“Make Of Two Sorrows One Perfect Joy” A Reading of The Knight’s Tale
The Idea of Requital in The Miller’s Tale
A Defense of Justice in The Reeve’s Tale
Notes on the Unfinished Cook’s Tale
A Story of “Joy after Woe” in The Man of Law’s Tale
William Langland
The Pearl Poet
John Gower
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
St. Bonaventure
Magna Carta
Le Morte D’Arthur by Sir Thomas Mallory
St. Catherine of Siena
The Incoherence of the Philosophers
The Imitation of Christ by Thomas a Kempis
Utopia by Sir Thomas More
Machiavelli
The Prince
The Discourses on Livy
The 95 Theses by Martin Luther
Gargantua & Pantagruel Pentology by Francois Rabelais
The Absurd World of Pantagruel
Essays by Montaigne
The Lusiads
Leonardo de Vinci’s Notebooks
Poems of St. John of the Cross
On The Revolutions of Heavenly Spheres by Copernicus
The New Atlantis by Francis Bacon
Journal of Christopher Columbus
A Short Account of the Destruction of Indies by Bartolome de las Casas
Journals of Other Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, and English Explorers
The Book of Martyrs by John Foxe
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
When Poetry Conquers Philosophy: Reflections on Don Quixote
Lope de Vega
William Shakespeare
Shakespeare’s Comedies
All’s Well That Ends Well
As You Like It
As You Like It, Act I
As You Like It, Act II
“All The World’s A Stage” Considered
The Comedy of Errors
Love’s Labour’s Lost
Measure for Measure
The Merchant of Venice
The Merry Wives of Windsor
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Much Ado About Nothing
The Taming of the Shrew
The Tempest
The Two Gentlemen of Verona
The Winter’s Tale
Shakespeare’s Tragedies
Antony and Cleopatra
Coriolanus
Cymbeline
Hamlet
Julius Caesar
King Lear
Macbeth
Othello
Romeo and Juliet
Timon of Athens
Titus Andronicus
Troilus and Cressida
Shakespeare’s Histories
Henry IV Part I
Henry IV Part II
Henry V
Henry VI Part I
Henry VI Part II
Henry VI Part III
Henry VIII
King John
Richard II
Richard III
Other Shakespeare (Not Included in the First Folio)
Pericles
The Two Noble Kinsmen
Christopher Marlowe
Tamburlaine
Ben Johnson
The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser
The Lives of the Artists by Giorgio Vasari
Johannes Kepler
New Astronomy
Harmony of the Worlds
Rene Descartes
Musicae Compendium
Le Monde
Geometry
Discourse on the Method
Meditations on First Philosophy
Principles of Philosophy
Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes
Galileo Galilei
Starry Messenger
Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems
De Motu Cordis by William Harvey
Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained by John Milton
The Book of Common Prayer
Moliere
Tartuffe
Misanthrope
Andromache by Racine
Isaac Newton
Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica
Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan
Thoughts on Pilgrim’s Progress
Pensees by Pascal
John Dryden
John Locke
A Letter Concerning Toleration
Two Treatises of Government
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
Daniel Defoe
Robinson Crusoe
Robinson Crusoe’s Diary of Survivalism
Moll Flanders
Principles of Human Knowledge by Berkeley
Alexander Pope
Rape of the Lock
Essay on Man
Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
Voltaire
Candide
Treatise on Tolerance
David Hume
A Treatise of Human Nature
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion
Treatise on Light by Huygens
The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Matsuo Bashō
Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Heloise
The Social Contract
Discourse on the Arts and Sciences
Discourse on Inequality
Emile, or On Education
Reveries of a Solitary Walker
Confessions
Rameau’s Nephew by Denis Diderot
Alexander Pope
Life of Samuel Johnson by Boswell
Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith
The New Science by Vico
Elements of Chemistry by Lavoisier
Faraday’s Experiments in Electricity
The United States Declaration of Independence
Constitution of the United States of America
Déclaration des droits de l’homme et du citoyen (The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen)
Native American Chants and Songs (compiled by the Norton Anthology)
Life Among the Piutes by Sarah Winnemucca
Immanuel Kant
Observations on the Feelings of the Beautiful and the Sublime
On The Different Races of Man
Critique of Pure Reason
Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics
An Answer to the Question “What Is Enlightenment?”
Idea For A Universal History With A Cosmopolitan Purpose
Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals
Edmund Burke
A Vindication of Natural Society
Reflections on the Revolution in France
Samuel Johnson
Mary Wollstonecraft
Olaudah Equiano
William Blake
Emily Dickinson
William Wordsworth
Walt Whitman
Friedrich Schiller
Edgar Allan Poe
The Fall of the House of Usher
The Murders in the Rue Morgue
The Pit and the Pendulum
The Tell-Tale Heart
The Bells
The Raven
Faust by Goethe
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
Soren Kierkegaard
On the Concept of Irony with Continual Reference to Socrates
Either/Or
Fear and Trembling
Philosophical Fragments
The Concept of Anxiety
The Sickness Unto Death
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Henry Adams History of the United States During the Administrations of Thomas Jefferson
Karl Marx
On The Jewish Question
Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844
The German Ideology
The Communist Manifesto
Capital
Charles Darwin
The Voyage of the Beagle
On The Origin of Species
The Descent of Man
The Journals of Lewis and Clark
The Varieties of Religious Experience, Pragmatism by William James
An Introduction to Metaphysics by Henri Bergson
Robert Burns
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Arthur Rimbaud
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Writings of Abraham Lincoln
Shelby Foote’s Narrative of the Civil War
Mary Chestnuts Diaries of the Civil War
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Henry David Thoreau
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Journals and Letters of David Livingstone
Autobiography of Mark Twain Volumes I-II
The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy by Jacob Burckhardt
Life of Black Hawk, or Ma-ka-tai-me-she-kia-kiak
The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh
Amy Lowell Poetry
Robert Lowell
John Stuart Mill
Eugene O’Neill
e. e. cummings
Up From Slavery by Booker T. Washington
The Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant
Experience and Education by John Dewey
Thomas Carlyle on the French Revolution
Winston Churchill
The World Crisis
The Second World War
The History of English Speaking Peoples
Science and the Modern World, Introduction to Mathematics by Alfred North Whitehead
The Problems of Philosophy by Bertrand Russell
Scientific Autobiography by Max Planck
The Gospel of Wealth (Essay) by Andrew Carnegie
Sigmund Freud
Jung
Doris Lessing
Grimm’s Fairy Tales
The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. DuBois
Albert Einstein
The General Theory of Relativity
The Special Theory of Relativity
The World as I See It
Ideas and Opinions
The Evolution of Physics
Why Socialism?
Essays in Humanism
The World As Will and Representation by Schopenhauer
Friedrich Nietzsche
The Birth of Tragedy
On Truth and Lies In A Nonmoral Sense
Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks
Untimely Meditations
Human, All Too Human
The Dawn
The Gay Science
Thus Spake Zarathustra
Beyond Good and Evil
On The Genealogy of Morals
Twilight of the Idols
The Antichrist
Ecce Homo
Martin Heidegger
Being and Time
Introduction to Metaphysics
The Question Concerning Technology
The Philosophical Investigations by Wittgenstein
The Cost of Discipleship by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The Phenomenology of Perception by Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Tristes Tropiques by Claude Levi-Strauss
Emile Durkheim
Suicide
The Elementary Forms of Religious Life
The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money by John Maynard Keynes
Letter From Birmingham Jail by Martin Luther King jr.
Jean-Paul Sartre
Nausea
No Exit
Being and Nothingness
The Revolt of the Masses by Jose Ortega y Gassett
Albert Camus
The Stranger
The Plague
Ayn Rand
The Fountainhead
Atlas Shrugged
Anthem
The Virtue of Selfishness
Hannah Arendt
The Origins of Totalitarianism
The Human Condition
Eichmann in Jerusalem
On Revolution
The Idea of History by R.G. Collingwood
The Greek Myths by Robert Graves
Les Fleurs de Mal by Charles Baudelaire
The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
Jurgen Habermas
Simone Weil
The Need for Roots
The Notebooks of Simone Weil
Jacques Derrida
Speech and Phenomena
Of Grammatology
Writing and Difference
Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgment of Taste by Pierre Bourdieu
Ideas Have Consequences by Richard Weaver
C.S. Lewis
The Screwtape Letters
The Problem of Pain
Mere Christianity
The Case for Christianity
The Abolition of Man
The Space Trilogy
The Great Divorce
G.K. Chesterton
The Man Who Was Thursday
Orthodoxy
The Everlasting Man
T.S. Eliot
Ezra Pound’s Cantos
Wallace Stevens
William Carlos Williams
Robert Frost
Edna St. Vincent Millay
W.H. Auden
Theodore Roethke
Elizabeth Bishop
Marianne Moore
Atomic Theory by Niels Bohr
Physics and Philosophy by Heisenberg
What Is Life? by Schrodinger
Russel Kirk
The Conservative Mind
The Roots of American Order
William F. Buckley
God and Man at Yale
Up From Liberalism
Susan Sontag
On Photography
Against Interpretation
Illness As Metaphor
Regarding the Pain of Others
Styles of Radical Will
In America
The Word of God and the Word of Man by Karl Barthes
Structural Anthropology by Claude Levi-Strauss
Karl Popper
The Poverty of Historicism
The Open Society and Its Enemies
Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin
A Theory of Justice by John Rawls
Isaiah Berlin
Against The Current: Essays in the History of Ideas
Mohandes Gandhi
Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II by Fernand Braudel
Thorstein Veblen
Irving Stone’s The Agony and the Ecstasy
Edmund Morris’s Theodore Roosevelt Biographies
Robert Caro’s Biography of Lyndon Johnson
The Guns of August by Barbara Tuchman
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism by Max Weber
Leo Strauss
The Teaching of Aristotle’s Politics
Allan Bloom
The Road To Serfdom by Friedrich Hayek
Michel Foucault
The Archaeology of Knowledge
Madness and Civilization
Discipline and Punish
The History of Sexuality
A Brief History of Time Stephen Hawking
The Hero With A Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell
Gilles Deleuze
Capitalism and Schizophrenia: Anti-Oedipus
Richard Feynman
Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacher
Gwendolyn Brooks
Dreams From My Father by Barack Obama
Stephen E. Ambrose
Undaunted Courage
Band of Brothers
Citizen Soldiers
Nothing Like It In The World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad
To America: Personal Reflections of an Historian
1491 and 1493 by Charles Mann
Absolute Monarchs: A History of the Papacy by John Julius Norwich
The Swerve: How the World Became Modern by Stephen Greenblatt
Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin
Abraham Lincoln The War Years by Carl Sandburg
Langston Hughes
Flannery O’Connor
The Elements of Style by William Strunk
The Last Lion Trilogy: Winston Churchill by William Manchester and Paul Reid
Thomas Jefferson and the New Nation by Merrill Peterson
A Stillness at Appomattox by Bruce Catton
Lincoln at Gettysburg by Gary Wills
Founding Brothers by Joseph Ellis
The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin by H. W. Brands
Thomas Jefferson: A Life by Willard Sterne Randall
Washington’s Crossing by David Hackett Fischer
American Lion: Andrew Jackson by Jon Meacham
The Anxiety of Influence by Harold Bloom
David McCullough
The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge (1972)
The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870–1914 (1977)
Mornings on Horseback (1981)
Brave Companions: Portraits in History (1991)
Truman (1992)
John Adams (2001)
1776 (2005)
The Wright Brothers (2015)
The Pioneers (2019)
Ron Chernow
The House of Morgan (1990)
Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller (1998)
Alexander Hamilton (2005)
Washington: A Life (2010)
Grant (2017)
Walter Isaacson
Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
Einstein: His Life and Universe
Steve Jobs
Leonardo da Vinci
Simon Schama
The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age
Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution
Rembrandt’s Eyes
A History of Britain
Annals of the Former World by John McPhee
Osama bin Laden’s 2002 “Letter to America”
The End of Faith by Sam Harris
The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East by Robert Fisk
Christopher Hitchens
The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice
No One Left to Lie To: The Triangulations of William Jefferson Clinton
The Trial of Henry Kissinger
Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays
Thomas Jefferson: Author of America
God Is Not Great
Hitch 22: A Memoir
Wendell Berry
The Peace of Wild Things
The Unsettling of America
What Are People For?
The Art of the Commonplace
Jayber Crow
Hannah Coulter
Nathan Coulter
A Place on Earth
A Place In Time
That Distant Land
A World Lost
Sex, Economy, Freedom and Community
Bringing It To The Table
Poetry
Ways of Seeing by John Berger
Mary Oliver
Pierre Manent
Metamorphoses of the City
An Intellectual History of Liberalism
Roger Scruton
The Meaning of Conservatism
Sexual Desire
On Hunting
The Aesthetics of Music
I Drink Therefore I Am: A Philosopher’s Guide to Wine
Slavoj Zizek
The Sublime Object of Ideology
