Religion audiobooks


Paradise Lost

Paradise Lost

by John Milton

John Milton's poetry Paradise Lost is known to be the first epic of English literature. Interestingly John dictated the poem and his three daughters transcribed them. The caliber of the work can be compared to those ancient poets like Homer, Virgil and Dante Alighieri, which become one of the most powerful English poems...

The Pursuit of God

The Pursuit of God

by Aiden Wilson Tozer

The Pursuit of God is a Christian classic written by spiritual mentor Aiden Wilson Tozer. Intimate relationship with God begins with blind faith ignoring formality and worldliness. The thirst to walk towards God lies for every Christian in-spite of their back-round. To support his preaches, he provides examples of many saints who lived with the sam..

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage

by Lord Byron

The Narrative poem Childe Harold's Pilgrimage was an ideal platform for Lord Byron to express his views with introduction of Byronic hero an intelligent young man with cunning nature, susceptible to mood swings and easy to get seduced by women. In the Canto IV preface, Byron mentioned that the protagonist has many similarities with his personality...

Orthodoxy

Orthodoxy

by G. K. Chesterton

Orthodoxy is a book by G. K. Chesterton that has become a classic of Christian apologetics. Chesterton considered this book a companion to his other work, Heretics. In the book's preface Chesterton states the purpose is to "attempt an explanation, not of whether the Christian faith can be believed, but of how he personally has come to believe it." ..

God, the Invisible King

God, the Invisible King

by H. G. Wells

Wells' non-fiction work God, the Invisible King sets out as forcibly and exactly as possible the religious belief of the writer. That belief is not orthodox Christianity; it is not, indeed, Christianity at all; its core nevertheless is a profound belief in a personal and intimate God. There is nothing in its statements that need shock or offend any..

A Kidnapped Santa Claus

A Kidnapped Santa Claus

by Lyman Frank Baum

A Kidnapped Santa Claus is an extended version of Lyman Frank Baum's The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, and this work narrates the kidnapping of Claus by pagan daemons. The story starts with kidnapping and moves on to the daemons' failed attempts to change the character of Claus to selfishness, envy and hatred. The story then moves on to how C..

What I Believe

What I Believe

by Graf Leo Tolstoy

What I Believe is Leo Tolstoy’s follow-up to A Confession in which he describes his profound existential crisis. In A Confession Tolstoy describes how, at age 50, when he was at the height of his worldly success, he became so depressed that he wanted to commit suicide. In desperation he turned to the Orthodox church of his childhood and discovered ..

Gospel In Brief

Gospel In Brief

by Graf Leo Tolstoy

The Gospel in Brief is a 1902 synthesis of the four gospels of the New Testament into one narrative of the life of Jesus by Russian author Leo Tolstoy.  The account presented in Tolstoy's gospel is also notable in its sharp contrast with the contemporaneous views of the Russian Orthodox Church. Tolstoy was a fierce critic of the Russian O..