Popular European Religious Books

Find religious books written by authors from Europe for the next part of the Read Around The World Challenge. (16)

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Barabbas by Pär Lagerkvist EN

Rating: 5 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Sweden flag Sweden
Description:
Barabbas is the acquitted; the man whose life was exchanged for that of Jesus of Nazareth, crucified upon the hill of Golgotha. Barabbas is a man condemned to have no god. "Christos Iesus" is carved on the disk suspended from his neck, but he cannot affirm his faith. He cannot pray. He can only say, "I want to believe." Translated from the Swedish by Alan Blair

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Good Omens by Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett EN

Rating: 5 (2 votes)
Description:
The world will end on Saturday. Next Saturday. Just before dinner, according to The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch, the world's only completely accurate book of prophecies written in 1655. The armies of Good and Evil are amassing and everything appears to be going according to Divine Plan. Except that a somewhat fussy angel and a fast-living demon are not actually looking forward to the coming Rapture. And someone seems to have misplaced the Antichrist. Put New York Times bestselling authors Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett together . . . and all Hell breaks loose.

3.

In My Own Words by Pope John Paul II EN

Rating: 3 (1 vote)
Description:
Spiritual father of millions, globally influential leader: Pope John Paul II's words have brought inspiration, solace, and courage to those who have listened. The quotes and prayers collected here are both for the faithful and for those who have been touched by and want to know more about this remarkable man. His words on love, family, truth, freedom, human relationships, the power of God, and the importance of hope and prayer explore what it means to be alive and what we are doing here on Earth, and offer answers to some of life's hardest questions.

4.

Mere Christianity : Comprising The Case for Christianity, Christian Behaviour, and Beyond Personality by C. S. Lewis EN

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Description:
Discusses the essence of Christian faith and the doctrine of the Trinity.

5.

O Evangelho Segundo Jesus Cristo by José Saramago PT

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Country: Europe / Portugal flag Portugal
Description:
Romance magistral e polêmico do Prêmio Nobel de Literatura de 1998. "O filho de José e de Maria nasceu como todos os filhos dos homens, sujo de sangue de sua mãe, viscoso das suas mucosidades e sofrendo em silêncio. Chorou porque o fizeram chorar, e chorará por esse mesmo e único motivo." Todos conhecem a história do filho de José e Maria, mas nesta narrativa ela ganha tanta beleza e tanta pungência que é como se estivesse sendo contada pela primeira vez. Nas palavras de José Paulo Paes: "Interessado menos na onipotência do divino que na frágil mas tenaz resistência do humano, a arte magistral... continue


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Paradise Lost by John Milton EN

Rating: 5 (1 vote)
Description:
John Milton's celebrated epic poem exploring the cosmological, moral and spiritual origins of man's existence A Penguin Classic In Paradise Lost Milton produced poem of epic scale, conjuring up a vast, awe-inspiring cosmos and ranging across huge tracts of space and time, populated by a memorable gallery of grotesques. And yet, in putting a charismatic Satan and naked, innocent Adam and Eve at the centre of this story, he also created an intensely human tragedy on the Fall of Man. Written when Milton was in his fifties - blind, bitterly disappointed by the Restoration and in danger of executio... continue

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The Divine Comedy : The Inferno, the Purgatorio, and the Paradiso by Dante Alighieri EN

Rating: 4 (2 votes)
Country: Europe / Italy flag Italy
Description:
For the first time, John Ciardi's translations of Dante's three soaring canticles have been gathered together in a single volume.

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The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene EN

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Description:
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY JAMES WOOD Scobie, a police officer serving in a war-time West African state, is distrusted, being scrupulously honest and immune to bribery. But then he falls in love, and in doing so he is forced to betray everything he believes in, with drastic and tragic consequences.

10.

The Inferno by Dante Alighieri EN

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Italy flag Italy
Description:
Writing his Comedy (the epithet Divine was added by later admirers) in exile from his native Florence, Dante aimed to address a world gone astray both morally and politically. It tells the story of a character who is at one and the same time both Dante himself and Everyman.