The republic / Plato -- Nicomachean ethics / Aristotle -- Meditations / Marcus Aurelius -- The book of Job; the gospel according to Matthew -- The brothers Karamazov / Dostoyevsky -- The seven storey mountain / Thomas Merton -- "God's grandeur" ; "Windhover" / Gerard Manley Hopkins -- Moral man and immoral society / Reinhold Niebuhr -- Beyond belief; Biblical religion and social science in the modern world / Robert N. Bellah -- The varieties of religious experience / William James.