Biography--Religion--Christianity

the story of gregor mendel and the discovery of genetics

Robin Marantz Henig

Biography--Science Biography--Biologists and Naturalists Biography--Religion--Christianity Mendel, Gregor (Austrian Priest, Geneticist, 1822-1884)

a medieval life

M. T. Clanchy

Biography--Philosophy Abelard, Peter (Fr. philos. 1079-1142) Biography--Religion--Christianity

the man and his mind

by George Seaver

Biography--Travellers Biography--Medicine Biography--Philosophy Biography--Religion--Christianity Schweitzer, Albert (1875-1965)

1875-1965. Eine Biographie

Nils Ole Oermann

Biography--Travellers Biography--Medicine Biography--Philosophy Biography--Religion--Christianity Schweitzer, Albert (1875-1965)

von Petrus bis Benedikt XVI.

Reinhard Barth

Biography--Collective Biography--Religion--Christianity Papacy--History

a life of Philip Neri, 1515-1595

Meriol Trevor

Biography--Religion--Christianity Saints--Christianity Religious orders--Lay people Neri, Philip Romolo (Saint, 1515-1595)

a biography

by Peter Brown

Biography--Religion--Christianity Saints--Christianity Biography--Philosophy Augustine of Hippo (Saint, bishop, 354-430)

[and] an account of further discoveries in air

memoirs written by himself; introd. by Jack Lindsay

Memoirs Biography--Religion--Christianity Biography--Philosophy Biography--Science Biography--Education Priestley, Joseph (1733-1804) Oxygen--Chemical properties Discoveries in science--History--Sources

Marie-Madeleine Davy

Theology--Middle Ages Mysticism--Christianity Religious orders--Cistercians Biography--Religion--Christianity Bernard of Clairvaux (Saint, 1090-1153)

by James Anthony Froude

Biography--Literature--Britain Biography--Religion--Christianity Christianity--Denominations--Baptists Bunyan, John (1628-1688)

new concise edition

ed. by Michael Walsh

Saints--Christianity Hagiography Biography--Religion--Christianity Biography--Collective

a narrative

by Benarsidas Chaturvedi & Marjorie Sykes; w. a foreword by M. K. Gandhi

Biography--Religion--Christianity Biography--India Andrews, Charles Freer (Engl. missionary, 1871-1940)

Tomás Ó Fiaich

Saints--Christianity Biography--Religion--Christianity St. Columban (Irish missionary, 543-615) History--Sources

heroine of Haarlem

Sam Wellman

Biography--Women Biography--Rebels, revolutionaries, reformers Biography--Religion--Christianity Ten Boom, Corrie (1892-1983) Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)

Tirzah Miller's intimate memoir

Robert S. Fogarty

Herrick, Tirzah Miller (1946-1902) Memoirs Biography--Women Biography--Religion--Christianity Communalism

der Skandal eines weiblichen Papstes. Eine Rezeptionsgeschichte

Elisabeth Gössmann

Biography--Religion--Christianity Biography--Women Joan (Legendary female pope) Christianity--Doctrinal controversies

the autobiography of Thomas Merton

Biography--Religion--Christianity Memoirs Merton, Thomas (Catholic mystic, 1915-1968)

by Stefan Zweig; transl. by Eden & Cedar Paul

Biography--Philosophy Biography--Religion--Christianity Erasmus (of Rotterdam, humanist, theol.,1466-1536)

with a selection from the letters of Erasmus

Johan Huizinga ; translated from the Dutch by F. Hopman, with a selection from the letters of Erasmus.

Humanists Erasmus (of Rotterdam, humanist, theol.,1466-1536) Reformation Biography--Philosophy Biography--Religion--Christianity

ein biographisches Lesebuch

von Uwe Schultz

Erasmus (of Rotterdam, humanist, theol.,1466-1536) Biography--Philosophy Biography--Religion--Christianity

Nikolaus von Flüe; Holzschnitte zu seinen Visionen von Alois Spichtig; mit Texten von Margit Spichtig

Visions Biography--Religion--Christianity Biography--Mystics Mysticism--Christianity

thirty-four priests tell their stories

Francis P. Friedl, Rex Reynolds

Christianity--Apologetic works Memoirs Biography--Religion--Christianity

the life of Ramon Lull

E. Allison Peers

Biography--Religion--Christianity Biography--Mystics Biography--Philosophy Biography--Literature--Spain Llull, Ramon (Mystic, 1232-1315)

Catherine de Hueck Doherty

Biography--Religion--Christianity Memoirs Doherty, Catherine (1896-1985)

the man and his work

by Albert Jay Nock & C. R. Wilson

Biography--Literature--France Biography--Philosophy Biography--Religion--Christianity Biography--Medicine Rabelais, François (French humanist, 1483-1553)

by Florence Higham

Biography--Religion--Christianity Biography--Rebels, revolutionaries, reformers Maurice, Frederick Denison (Christian socialist, 1805-1872)

a biography of John Lilburne

by Pauline Gregg

Biography--Rebels, revolutionaries, reformers Biography--Religion--Christianity Biography--Politics (ministers, MPs, essayists etc.) Lilburne, John (Freeborn John, 1614-1657) Levellers (Brit. polit. movement)

a drama of science, faith, and love

Dava Sobel

Biography--Science Biography--Religion--Christianity Galilei, Galileo (1564-1642) Galilei, Maria Celeste (1600-1634) Astronomers Nuns--Christianity Biography--Women

by Henry van Etten; transl. & rev. by E. Kelvin Osborn

Biography--Religion--Christianity Fox, George (Quaker, 1624-1691) Christianity--Denominations--Society of Friends (Quakers)

mit Selbstzeugnissen und Bilddokumenten

dargest. von Jochen Kirchhoff

Biography--Philosophy Biography--Religion--Christianity Bruno, Giordano (1548-1600)

le volcan de Venise

Yvonne Caroutch

Biography--Literature--Italy Biography--Science Biography--Religion--Christianity Bruno, Giordano (1548-1600)

a Study in Religion and Politics

Aldous Huxley

Biography--Politics (ministers, MPs, essayists etc.) Biography--Religion--Christianity du Tremblay, François Leclerc (1577-1638) Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648

humanist and heretic, 1495-1527

by Alfred Coutts

Biography--Religion--Christianity Biography--Rebels, revolutionaries, reformers Denck, Hans (Anabaptist, 1495-1527)

a life of Martin Luther

Roland Herbert Bainton

Luther, Martin (1483-1546) Biography--Religion--Christianity

haar leven, mystiek, muziek en geneeskunde

Louis A. M. van den Bercken

Biography--Religion--Christianity Biography--Medicine Biography--Music Biography--Women Saints--Christianity--Women Hildegard of Bingen (Saint, 1098-1179)

conscience inspirée du XIIe siècle

Régine Pernoud

Biography--Women Biography--Religion--Christianity Biography--Medicine Biography--Music Hildegard of Bingen (Saint, 1098-1179) Saints--Christianity--Women

manuscrits autobiographiques

Sainte Thérèse de l'enfant-Jésus et de la Sainte-Face

Memoirs Biography--Women Biography--Religion--Christianity Saints--Christianity--Women Thérèse of Lisieux (Saint, 1873-1897) Letters Diaries and journals

the story of Martin Luther King

by Margaret Davidson

Biography--Religion--Christianity King, Martin Luther Jr. (US civil rights activist, 1929-1968)

the autobiography

of John Tettemer; ed. by Janet Mabie

Memoirs Biography--Religion--Christianity Christianity--Monks and monastic life Tettemer, John (1876-1949)

der mysteriöse Tod des 33-Tage-Papstes Johannes Paul I., Tatsachen und Hintergründe

David A. Yallop

John Paul I. (Catholic Pope, 1912-1978) Biography--Religion--Christianity Banks and banking--Vatican Corporations--Corrupt practices Catholic Church--Organizations Catholic Church--Criticism Catholic Church--History--20th century Murder--Case studies

by the late Rt. Rev. Herman D'Souza

Saints--Christianity St. Thomas (Apostle) Biography--Religion--Christianity Biography--India

1559-1614

by Mark Pattison

Biography--Religion--Christianity Biography--Literature--Britain Biography--Literature--France Biography--Historians Casaubon, Isaac (1559-1614)

poet and mystic, 1228-1306; a spiritual biography; w. a selection from the spiritual songs

by Evelyn Underhill; transl. by Mrs. Theodore Beck

Spiritual biography Biography--Religion--Christianity Biography--Literature--Italy Mystics Italian poetry--Translated into English Italian poetry--Religious Jacopone da Todi (Mystic, 1228-1306) Bilingual edition--English and Italian Mysticism--Christianity

Régine Pernoud

Biography--Religion--Christianity Joan of Arc (Saint, 1412-1431) Biography--Women Biography--Rebels, revolutionaries, reformers

et autres textes

Jules Michelet

Biography--Religion--Christianity Biography--Women Biography--Military Biography--Rebels, revolutionaries, reformers Joan of Arc (Saint, 1412-1431) France--History

jeune fille de france brûlée vive

Max Gallo

Biography--Rebels, revolutionaries, reformers Biography--Women Biography--Religion--Christianity Joan of Arc (Saint, 1412-1431)

the image of female heroism

Marina Warner

Biography--Women Biography--Military Biography--Religion--Christianity Saints--Christianity Joan of Arc (Saint, 1412-1431)

eine Biographie

Alister E. McGrath; a.d.Engl.v. Gabriele Burkhardt

Biography--Religion--Christianity Biography--Rebels, revolutionaries, reformers Calvin, John (Jehan Cauvin, Theol. 1509-1564) Theologians Christianity--Denominations--Reformed Protestantism (Calvinism)

portrait of a Calvinist

Edwin Muir

Biography--Religion--Christianity Knox, John (1514-1572)

abridged edition

Diaries and journals Biography--Religion--Christianity Christianity--Denominations--Methodists Christianity--Denominations--Anglicans Wesley, John (Engl. theol., 1703-1791)

a contemporary portrait of Samuel Johnson

ed. by Hugh Kingsmill

Biography--Literature--Britain Biography--Religion--Christianity Johnson, Samuel (Engl. writer, 1709-1784)

une vie de Saint Paul

Alain Decaux

Biography--Religion--Christianity Saints--Christianity Paul (Saul of Tarsus, Apostle, 5-67 AD) Biography--Travellers

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Biography--Religion--Christianity Biography--Victims of violence Bonhoeffer, Dietrich (German theologian, 1906-1945) Letters

by Paul Sabatier; transl. by Louise Seymour Houghton

Biography--Religion--Christianity Saints--Christianity Francis of Assisi (Saint, 1182-1226)

Peter Manns

Biography--Religion--Christianity Luther, Martin (1483-1546)

ed. by E. G. Rupp & Benjamin Drewery

Luther, Martin (1483-1546) Biography--Rebels, revolutionaries, reformers Biography--Religion--Christianity History--Sources Letters

Valerie Schloredt and Pam Brown

King, Martin Luther Jr. (US civil rights activist, 1929-1968) Biography--Religion--Christianity

Rob Lloyd Jones; designed by Leonard Le Rolland

Biography--Religion--Christianity Biography--Rebels, revolutionaries, reformers Biography--Peace, civil & human rights activists King, Martin Luther Jr. (US civil rights activist, 1929-1968) Age group--Kids (6-10)

spirit-led prophet - a biography

Richard Deats

Biography--Social Sciences Biography--Religion--Christianity King, Martin Luther Jr. (US civil rights activist, 1929-1968)

La revolución perdida

Ernesto Cardenal

Memoirs Biography--Literature--Latin America Biography--Rebels, revolutionaries, reformers Cardenal, Ernesto (1925-) Revolutions Nicaragua--History--1838-today (Republic) Biography--Religion--Christianity

Aufbruch nach Ghana

Susanne u. Martin Knispel

Travel--Ghana Missions--Africa Memoirs Biography--Families Biography--Religion--Christianity Knispel (Family, German missionaries)

the authorized biography

Navin Chawla

Biography--Religion--Christianity Teresa, Mother (1910-?)

an autobiography

Albert Schweitzer; transl. by C. T. Campion

Memoirs Biography--Medicine Biography--Religion--Christianity Biography--Philosophy Biography--Travellers Schweitzer, Albert (1875-1965)

Meriol Trevor

Biography--Religion--Christianity Theologians Newman, John Henry (Engl.cardinal, 1801-1890)

C. V. Wedgewood [sic!]

Biography--Rulers (heads of gov./ chief exec.) Biography--Religion--Christianity Cromwell, Oliver (Lord Protector, 1599-1658)

man van twee werelden

C. J. den Heyer

Bible--New Testament--History of Biblical events Paul (Saul of Tarsus, Apostle, 5-67 AD) Biography--Religion--Christianity

the fire of joy

Paul Türks of the Oratory; transl. by Daniel Utrecht of the Oratory

Biography--Religion--Christianity Saints--Christianity Religious orders--Lay people Neri, Philip Romolo (Saint, 1515-1595)

mit Selbstzeugnissen und Bilddokumenten

dargest. v. Johannes Hemleben

Biography--Philosophy Biography--Science Teilhard de Chardin, Pierre (1875-1961) Biography--Religion--Christianity

by T. H. L. Parker

Biography--Religion--Christianity Biography--Rebels, revolutionaries, reformers Christianity--Protestantism Calvin, John (Jehan Cauvin, Theol. 1509-1564)

by Hugh Martin

Christianity--Denominations--Puritans Biography--Religion--Christianity Baxter, Richard (Puritan, 1615-1691)

ed. from the papers of the late M. Colmache, private secretary to the prince

Biography--Nobility Biography--Politics (ministers, MPs, essayists etc.) Biography--Religion--Christianity Talleyrand, Charles Maurice de (French politician, 1754-1838)

Bishop of Lincoln (1235-1253)

by J. H. Srawley

Biography--Education Biography--Religion--Christianity Biography--Philosophy Grosseteste, Robert (Engl.bishop, 1175-1253)

1844-1879

Francis Trochu; transl. & adptd by John Joyce S.J.

Biography--Religion--Christianity Biography--Women Saints--Christianity--Women Hagiography St. Bernadette (1844-1879)

by Francis Thompson; ed. by John Hungerford Pollen; w. 100 ill. by H. W. Brewer et al.

Biography--Religion--Christianity Ignatius of Loyola (Saint, 1491-1556) Religious orders--Society of Jesus (Jesuits) Saints--Christianity

the pilgrim years

by James Brodrick

Biography--Religion--Christianity Ignatius of Loyola (Saint, 1491-1556) Religious orders--Society of Jesus (Jesuits) Saints--Christianity

Alexandre Najjar

John the Baptist Biography--Religion--Judaism Biography--Religion--Christianity Saints--Christianity Bible--Historcity of Biblical events

juin 1940

Vladimir Lossky

World War II (1939-1945)--Personal narratives--France World War II (1939-1945)--Campaigns--France Lossky, Vladimir (1903-1958) Memoirs Biography--Religion--Christianity

Victor C. Hall

Biography--Women Biography--Religion--Christianity Heathcock, Ruth Sabina (1901-?) Aboriginal Australians

the shape of my early life

C. S. Lewis

Biography--Literature--Ireland Biography--Religion--Christianity Lewis, C. S. (1898-1963) Memoirs

by Duff Cooper

Biography--Politics (ministers, MPs, essayists etc.) Biography--Religion--Christianity Biography--Nobility Talleyrand, Charles Maurice de (French politician, 1754-1838)

homme d'état

Franz Blei; trad. de l'allemand p. René Lobstein

Biography--Politics (ministers, MPs, essayists etc.) Biography--Religion--Christianity Biography--Nobility Talleyrand, Charles Maurice de (French politician, 1754-1838)

une mystique de la traversée

Edith de la Héronnière

Biography--Religion--Christianity Teilhard de Chardin, Pierre (1875-1961)

una mujier extraordinaria

Cathleen Medwick; trad. Marcelo Covián Fasce

Biography--Religion--Christianity Biography--Women Saints--Christianity--Women Mystics Teresa of Avila (Saint Teresa of Jesus, 1515-1582)

Shirley du Boulay

Biography--Religion--Christianity Biography--Literature--Spain Biography--Women Mystics Saints--Christianity--Women Teresa of Avila (Saint Teresa of Jesus, 1515-1582) Biography--Mystics

ed. from his orig. notebooks

by Naomi Burton [et al.]

Biography--Religion--Christianity Biography--Travellers Diaries and journals Merton, Thomas (Catholic mystic, 1915-1968)

Memoirs Biography--Religion--Christianity Baxter, Richard (Puritan, 1615-1691)

a modern version

by W. Butler-Bowdon

Memoirs Spiritual memoirs Biography--Religion--Christianity Biography--Women Kempe, Margery (English mystic, 1373-1438)

portrait of a parish priest

by Lancelot C. Sheppard

Biography--Religion--Christianity Saints--Christianity Vianney, John (Jean-Baptiste-Marie, Saint, 1786-1859)

lives of the saints

transl. by William Caxton, from the Latin of Jacobus de Voragine; sel. & ed. by George V. O'Neill

Hagiography Biography--Collective Biography--Religion--Christianity Saints--Christianity

by Corrie ten Boom, with John & Elizabeth Sherrill

Memoirs Biography--Women Ten Boom, Corrie (1892-1983) Biography--Rebels, revolutionaries, reformers Biography--Religion--Christianity Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Netherlands Books adapted into a film or play

written by his own hand; ed. by C. G. Crump

Memoirs Biography--Religion--Christianity Christianity--Denominations--Society of Friends (Quakers) Ellwood, Thomas (Quaker, 1639-1714)

Anne Manning; William Roper

English fiction--19th century English fiction--Domestic English fiction--Diaries English fiction--Biographical More, Thomas (Saint, 1478-1535) Biography--Religion--Christianity Saints--Christianity

a story of science, faith, revolution, and the birth of America

Steven Johnson

United States--History Science--History--18th century Priestley, Joseph (1733-1804) Biography--Science Biography--Philosophy Biography--Religion--Christianity

Stanislav Kondrashov

Biography--Religion--Christianity Biography--Rebels, revolutionaries, reformers Biography--Peace, civil & human rights activists King, Martin Luther Jr. (US civil rights activist, 1929-1968)

to which is added Thomas Churchyard's Tragedy Of Wolsey

by George Cavendish, his gentleman-usher

Biography--Religion--Christianity Biography--Politics (ministers, MPs, essayists etc.) Wolsey, Thomas (1473-1530) History--Sources

written by himself; ed. w. an introd. by J. M. Shuttleworth

Biography--Military Biography--Historians Biography--Literature--Britain Biography--Religion--Christianity Biography--Philosophy Biography--Nobility Herbert of Cherbury, Edward (1583-1648) Memoirs

by Robert Southey

Biography--Religion--Christianity Christianity--Denominations--Methodists Wesley, John (Engl. theol., 1703-1791)

by Crisógono de Jesús; transl. by Kathleen Pond

Biography--Religion--Christianity Mystics John of the Cross (Saint, 1542-1591)

Saint Teresa of Aliva; translated from the Spanish and edited by E. Allison Peers ; from the critical edition of P. Silverio de Santa Teresa ; introduction by Benedicta Ward

Teresa of Avila (Saint Teresa of Jesus, 1515-1582) Spiritual memoirs Biography--Women Biography--Religion--Christianity Saints--Christianity--Women Mystics

Peter Ackroyd

More, Thomas (Saint, 1478-1535) Biography--Religion--Christianity Biography--Philosophy Saints--Christianity

by Jacques Brousse; ed. from Robert Rookwood's transl. of 1623 by T. A. Birrell

Biography--Religion--Christianity Biography--Military Biography--Nobility de Joyeuse, Henri (Father Ange, 1563-1608) Canfield, Benet (Capuchin, 1562-1610) Religious orders--Capuchins

C. F. Andrews

by John S. Hoyland

Biography--Religion--Christianity Biography--India Andrews, Charles Freer (Engl. missionary, 1871-1940)

by James Brodrick, SJ

Religious orders--Society of Jesus (Jesuits) Biography--Religion--Christianity Ignatius of Loyola (Saint, 1491-1556)

Donald Attwater

Saints--Christianity Biography--Religion--Christianity Biography--Collective Hagiography

a study in mysticism and practical religion

by B. H. Streeter & A. J. Appasamy

Biography--Spiritual persons Biography--Religion--Christianity Sadhus Sadhu Sundar Singh (Indian mystic, 1889-1929) Mysticism--India Mysticism--Christianity Biography--India

being the life, wit and humour of Sydney Smith

by Hesketh Pearson; w. an introd. by G. K. Chesterton

Biography--Literature--Britain Biography--Religion--Christianity Smith, Sydney (Engl. writer, cleric, 1771-1845)

a memoir

Karen Armstrong

Ex-nuns--Biography Biography--Religion--Christianity Spiritual memoirs Armstrong, Karen (1944-)

The autobiography of Saint Thérèse of Lisieux

transl. w. an introd. by John Beevers

Memoirs Thérèse of Lisieux (Saint, 1873-1897) Biography--Women Biography--Religion--Christianity Nuns--Christianity Saints--Christianity Christianity--Religious experience

an autobiography

Memoirs Biography--Explorers Biography--Social Sciences Biography--Religion--Christianity Biography--Religion--Hinduism Tribes--India Elwin, Verrier (1902-1964)

by R. W. Chambers

Biography--Religion--Christianity Biography--Philosophy Saints--Christianity More, Thomas (Saint, 1478-1535) Awards--James Tait Black Memorial Prize

mit Selbstzeugnissen und Bilddokumenten

M.-D. Chenu

Biography--Religion--Christianity Saints--Christianity Thomas Aquinas (Saint, 1225-1274)

by Karen Armstrong

Biography--Religion--Christianity Memoirs Armstrong, Karen (1944-)

Ärztin, Nonne, Powerfrau

Ruth Pfau

Travel--Afghanistan Travel--Pakistan Afghanistan--History--1992-2001 (Taliban Emirate) Social work Biography--Religion--Christianity Biography--Women Biography--Medicine Pfau, Ruth (Christian missionary, 1929-2017) Memoirs

Thérèse d'Avila; trad. de l'espagnol p. le père Grégoire de Saint Joseph

Teresa of Avila (Saint Teresa of Jesus, 1515-1582) Spiritual memoirs Biography--Women Biography--Religion--Christianity Saints--Christianity--Women

and other questions about Martin Luther King Jr.

by Mary Kay Carson

Civil rights movements--20th century--United States African Americans--Civil rights Biography--Rebels, revolutionaries, reformers Biography--African Americans Biography--Religion--Christianity King, Martin Luther Jr. (US civil rights activist, 1929-1968) Age group--Kids (6-10)

chuckles & wisdom

Hilary Lyons

Memoirs Biography--Women Biography--Travellers Biography--Medicine Biography--Religion--Christianity Travel--Sierra Leone Anecdotes Missions--Africa Missions--Christian

a reflection on the life of Fr. Eddie Fonseca

comp. by Valentino Gasper

Biography--India Biography--Religion--Christianity Fonesca, Edmund (Reverend in Pune, 1923-2016) Festschrift

a study in psychoanalysis and history

Erik H. Erikson

Luther, Martin (1483-1546) Biography--Religion--Christianity Biography--Rebels, revolutionaries, reformers Psychoanalysis and culture Psychoanalysis and religion Psychoanalysis--Case studies Psychoanalytic system--Freud Reformation

the life and times of Jesus of Nazareth

Reza Aslan

Jesus Christ--Biography--History and criticism Biography--Religion--Christianity

Marakka mudiyatha manithargal

பி. எஸ். ஆச்சார்யா

Biography--Religion--Christianity Biography--India Biography--Women