The Letters of Abelard and Heloise
1135 · 296 pages
Heloise wrote to Abelard, the Paris philosopher who had been her tutor and lover, years after her uncle's men castrated him. From her abbey she refused to call their love a sin.
★ 6.5
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Summa Theologica
1274 · 432 pages
Aquinas asks thousands of questions about God, law, virtue, and sin, and answers each only after stating the strongest case against himself. Catholic thought has been arguing with him for 750 years.
★ 7.4