The Consolation of Philosophy

Augustine tells the story of his restless youth and his conversion, and turns it into a meditation on memory, time and desire. The first great autobiography of the West.

Saint Augustine

Written after the sack of Rome, Augustine's vast defense of Christianity contrasts the earthly city with the heavenly one. Complete in twenty-two books, translated by Marcus Dods.

Saint Augustine

Includes the Proslogium, home of the famous ontological argument for God's existence, plus the Monologium and Cur Deus Homo. Sidney Norton Deane's translation, with Gaunilo's classic reply.

Saint Anselm

Maimonides wrote it for readers torn between scripture and Aristotle, and showed how faith and reason can live together. Michael Friedländer's complete translation.

Moses Maimonides

Aquinas' great synthesis of Christian theology and Aristotle, including the five ways to prove God's existence. The complete text, translated by the Fathers of the English Dominican Province.

Thomas Aquinas