Spiritual Companions: An Introduction to the Christian Classics

by Peter Toon

Introduces 100 writings that feed a love for spirit-nourishing thought. Each chapter includes a biographical sketch and the author's aims in writing. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801089042
• ISBN13: 9780801089046
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: Baker Publishing Group (MI)
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.2" x 7.6"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

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Spiritual Companions

Make 100 very special friends - spiritual companions to the spirit. Observes compiler Peter Toon, "There is a vast storehouse of heavenly and practical wisdom at our disposal in the spiritual classics, ready for us to digest and allow to mold us after the pattern of Jesus Christ." The brief, inspiration, chapters included in this collection have been drawn from a wide variety of church fathers, medieval thinkers, reformers, and modern churchmen. Among them: * The Confessions - Augustine * Pilgrim's Progress - John Bunyan * The Cost of Discipleship - Dietrich Bonhoeffer * Institutes of the Christian Religion - John Calvin * Autobiography - Charles Spurgeon * At the Feet of the Master - Sadhu Sundar Singh and many others Each chapter includes a brief biographiccal sketch on a writer and notes about the enduring value of the work. --- from book's back cover