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Albertus Magnus

Albertus Magnus, O.P. (1193/1206 – November 15, 1280), also known as Saint Albert the Great and Albert of Cologne, was a Dominican friar and priest who achieved fame for his comprehensive knowledge of and advocacy for the peaceful coexistence of science and religion. He is considered to be the greatest German philosopher and theologian of the Middle Ages. He was the first among medieval scholars to apply Aristotle’s philosophy to Christian thought.

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Man: The Dwelling Place of God by A.W. Tozer

Table of Contents

Preface – Man: The Dwelling Place of God
Chapter 1 – Man: The Dwelling Place of God
Chapter 2 – The Call of Christ
Chapter 3 – What We Think of Ourselves Is Important
Chapter 4 – The Once-born and the Twice-born
Chapter 5 – On the Origin and Nature of Things
Chapter 6 – Why People Find the Bible Difficult
Chapter 7 – Faith: The Misunderstood Doctrine
Chapter 8 – True Religion IS Not Feeling but Willing
Chapter 9 – How to Make Spiritual Progress
Chapter 10 – The Old Cross and the New
Chapter 11 – There Is No Wisdom in Sin
Chapter 12 – Three Degrees of Religious Knowledge
Chapter 13 – The Sanctification of the Secular
Chapter 14 – God Must Be Loved for Himself
Chapter 15 – True Faith Is Active, Not Passive
Chapter 16 – On Taking Too Much for Granted
Chapter 17 – The Cure for a Fretful Spirit
Chapter 18 – Boasting or Belittling
Chapter 19 – The Communion of Saints
Chapter 20 – Temperament in the Christian Life
Chapter 21 – Does God Always Answer Prayer?
Chapter 22 – Self-deception and How to Avoid It
Chapter 23 – On Breeding Spotted Mice
Chapter 24 – The Unknown Saints
Chapter 25 – Three Faithful Wounds
Chapter 26 – The Wrath of God: What Is It?
Chapter 27 – In Praise of Dogmatism
Chapter 28 – What Men Live By
Chapter 29 – How to Try the Spirits
Chapter 30 – Religious Boredom
Chapter 31 – The Church Cannot Die
Chapter 32 – The Lordship of the Man Jesus Is Basic
Chapter 33 – A Do-It-Yourself Education Better Than None
Chapter 34 – Some Thoughts on Books and Reading
Chapter 35 – The Decline of Apocalyptic Expectation
Chapter 36 – Choices Reveal – and Make – Character
Chapter 37 – The Importance of Sound Doctrine
Chapter 38 – Some Things Are Not Negotiable
Chapter 39 – The Saint Must Walk Alone

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Knowledge Of The Holy by A.W. Tozer

Table of Contents

Preface – Knowledge of the Holy

Chapter 1 – Why We Must Think Rightly About God
Chapter 2 – God Incomprehensible
Chapter 3 – A Divine Attribute: Something True About God
Chapter 4 – The Holy Trinity
Chapter 5 – The Self-existence of God
Chapter 6 – The Self-sufficiency of God
Chapter 7 – The Eternity of God
Chapter 8 – God’s Infinitude
Chapter 9 – The Immutability of God
Chapter 10 – The Divine Omniscience
Chapter 11 – The Wisdom of God
Chapter 12 – The Omnipotence of God
Chapter 13 – The Divine Transcendence
Chapter 14 – God’s Omnipresence
Chapter 15 – The Faithfulness of God
Chapter 16 – The Goodness of God
Chapter 17 – The Justice of God
Chapter 18 – The Mercy of God
Chapter 19 – The Grace of God
Chapter 20 – The Love of God
Chapter 21 – The Holiness of God
Chapter 22 – The Sovereignty of God
Chapter 23 – The Open Secret

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Pursuit of God by A.W. Tozer

Table of Contents

Introduction
Preface
Chapter 1: Following hard after God
Chapter 2 : The Blessedness of Possessing Nothing
Chapter 3: Removing the Veil
Chapter 4 : Apprehending God
Chapter 5 : The Universal Presence
Chapter 6 : The Speaking Voice
Chapter 7 : The Gaze of the Soul
Chapter 8 : Restoring the Creator-Creature Relation
Chapter 9 : Meekness and Rest
Chapter 10: The Sacrament of Living

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A.W. Tozer

Aiden Wilson Tozer (April 21, 1897 – May 12, 1963) was an American Protestant pastor, preacher, author, magazine editor, Bible conference speaker, and spiritual mentor.[1] For his work, he received two honorary doctorates.

Born in La Jose (now Newburg), a tiny farming community in western Pennsylvania, his conversion was as a teenager in Akron, Ohio. While on his way home from work at a tire company, he overheard a street preacher say: “If you don’t know how to be saved… just call on God.” Upon returning home, he climbed into the attic, heeding the preacher’s advice.

In 1919, five years after his conversion, and without formal theological training, Tozer accepted an offer to pastor his first church. This began forty four years of ministry, associated with the Christian and Missionary Alliance (C&MA), a Protestant evangelical denomination; thirty three of those years were served as a pastor in a number of churches. His first pastorate was in a small storefront church in Nutter Fort, West Virginia. Tozer also served as pastor for thirty years at Southside Alliance Church in Chicago (1928 to 1959), and the final years of his life were spent as pastor of Avenue Road Church in Toronto, Canada. In observing contemporary Christian living, he felt that the church was on a dangerous course towards compromising with “worldly” concerns.

In 1950, Tozer was elected editor of the Alliance Weekly magazine, now called, Alliance Life, the official publication of the C&MA. From his first editorial, dated June 3, 1950, he wrote “It will cost something to walk slow in the parade of the ages, while excited men of time rush about confusing motion with progress. But it will pay in the long run and the true Christian is not much interested in anything short of that.”

Among the more than forty books that he authored, at least two are regarded as Christian classics: The Pursuit of God and The Knowledge of the Holy. His books impress on the reader the possibility and necessity for a deeper relationship with God.

Living a simple and non-materialistic lifestyle, he and his wife, Ada Cecelia Pfautz, never owned a car, preferring bus and train travel. Even after becoming a well-known Christian author, Tozer signed away much of his royalties to those who were in need.

Tozer had seven children, six boys and one girl. He was buried in Ellet cemetery, Akron, Ohio USA, with a simple epitaph marking his grave: “A. W. Tozer – A Man of God”.

Prayer was of vital personal importance for Tozer. “His preaching as well as his writings were but extensions of his prayer life”, comments his biographer, James L. Snyder in the book, In Pursuit of God: The Life Of A.W. Tozer. “He had the ability to make his listeners face themselves in the light of what God was saying to them”, writes Snyder.