This is a collection for anyone interested in the foundations of religion in general and Christianity in particular, containing writings that deserve to be called world masterpieces. The content is a survey of religious reality reflected in the writings of philosophers, poets and saints. Together these selections constitute a profound perception of the meaning of human existence, powerfully molding our present and shaping our future. Professor Arya masterfully assembles a remarkable tour-de-force of the religious landscape, through more than three dozen selections from pivotal writers, on the...

This is a collection for anyone interested in the foundations of religion in general and Christianity in particular, containing writings that deserve to be called world masterpieces. The content is a survey of religious reality reflected in the writings of philosophers, poets and saints. Together these selections constitute a profound perception of the meaning of human existence, powerfully molding our present and shaping our future. Professor Arya masterfully assembles a remarkable tour-de-force of the religious landscape, through more than three dozen selections from pivotal writers, on the...

Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it; but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away, but eternity remains. I would drink deeper; fish in the sky, whose bottom is pebbly with stars.Henry David ThoreauThis edition covers fifteen sections of Henry David Thoreau's well-known Walden and includes several of his early essays from his journals, as well as A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, "Economy," "Where I Lived, and What I Lived For," "Solitude," "Higher Laws," "Reading," "Life Without Principle," "Friendship,"...

Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it; but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away, but eternity remains. I would drink deeper; fish in the sky, whose bottom is pebbly with stars.Henry David ThoreauThis edition covers fifteen sections of Henry David Thoreau's well-known Walden and includes several of his early essays from his journals, as well as A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, "Economy," "Where I Lived, and What I Lived For," "Solitude," "Higher Laws," "Reading," "Life Without Principle," "Friendship,"...