I can’t praise this series of books too highly. In an ecumenical move transcending that of any other religious publisher I can think of, Paulist Press has committed itself to publish the most important writings of the key figures of western religion. They’ve made it an ongoing series that will ultimately comprise as many as eighty volumes. These classics include both the famous and the relatively obscure, not only in Christian spirituality, but in Jewish, Islamic, and Native spiritualities as well. The authors’ writings are each preceded by a knowledgeable introduction giving some biographical information and placing the texts in the context of the writers’ times and other works.
As might be expected with an encyclopedic project such as this,
