St. Thomas Aquinasby Lee Cole It should go without saying that these ten entries are certainly not the ten “most essential” works in the history of human reflection upon the meaning of existence. Were that the case, the list would need to be amended to include the Bible, Plato’s Republic, the Shakespearean corpus, etc. These are simply [...]
by Kevin McCormick The Divine Comedy—Dante Alighieri; The original sci-fi trilogy. The Book of Psalms—King David, et al Orthodoxy—G.K. Chesterton; England’s Funniest Home Theology! The Lord of the Rings—J.R.R. Tolkien To Kill a Mockingbird—Harper Lee Let Us Now Praise Famous Men—James Agee; It is not surprising that many who praise Agee’s book see some kind of correlation between [...]
Here are “All the King’s Men” by Robert Penn Warren, “Jayber Crow” by Wendell Berry, and several other recommendations for Imaginative Conservatives, in no particular order. The Power and the Glory, by Graham Greene. I discovered this gem while on retreat at a Trappist monastery in Oregon. At the time I was discerning priesthood, so [...]
I invited a number of folks to contribute to a quasi-symposium for The Imaginative Conservative. With almost no direction, I asked these fine persons to list (without or with explanation) the 10 books that best allow us to understand our humanity. In large part, I’d like something new on my reading list. In equally large [...]