Hi all. can anyone here recommend a good book from St Thomas More?

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I want to buy this book to give to a lawyer who thinks more about being successfull in this life than think about God. He believes in God but he support gay marriage and everything else with it. i feel for him and would like to present him wiht a good book from Thomas more who was also a lawyer. I think it would be a good gift. dont you think?
 
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I want to buy this book to give to a lawyer who thinks more about being successfull in this life than think about God. He believes in God but he support gay marriage and everything else with it. i feel for him and would like to present him wiht a good book from Thomas more who was also a lawyer. I think it would be a good gift. dont you think?
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Summa Theologica, tends to be a hard read for the average lay person, but a lawyer should make easy work of it.
 
Here is a list. I think that Summa Theologia was written by St. Thomas Aquinas.

Published during More’s life (with dates of publication)
Code: 
* A Merry Jest (c. 1516) (CW 1)
* Utopia (1516) (CW 4)
* Latin Poems (1518, 1520) (CW 3, Pt.2)
* Letter to Brixius (1520) (CW 3, Pt. 2, App C)
* Responsio ad Lutherum (1523) (CW 5)
* A Dialogue Concerning Heresies (1529, 1530) (CW 6)
* Supplication of Souls (1529) (CW 7)
* Letter Against Frith (1532) (CW 7)
* The Confutation of Tyndale's Answer (1532, 1533) (CW 8)
* Apology (1533) (CW 9)
* Debellation of Salem and Bizance (1533) (CW 10)
* The Answer to a Poisoned Book (1533) (CW 11)
Published after More’s death (with likely dates of composition)
Code: 
* The History of King Richard III (c. 1513-1518) (CW 2 & 15)
* The Four Last Things (c. 1522) (CW 1)
* A Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation (1534) (CW 12)
* Treatise Upon the Passion (1534) (CW 13)
* Treatise on the Blessed Body (1535) (CW 13)
* Instructions and Prayers (1535) (CW 13)
* De Tristitia Christi (1535) (CW 14)
Translations
Code: 
* Translations of Lucian (many dates 1506-1534) (CW 3, Pt.1)
* The Life of Pico della Mirandola (c. 1510) (CW 1)
 
Hello,

Most of the titles in the first part of that list are against specific heretical works, so I’d recommend the later titles. Perhaps the one with the most “general” focus is “Four Last Things”, certainly a topic that’s always timely.

Here’s a description I found of that:
The Four Last Things develops More’s advice to his daughter Margaret to meditate on Death, Judgement, Pain and Joy as medicinal herbs in the battle against the spiritual sicknesses of pride, covetousness, lust, anger, gluttony, envy and sloth.
amazon.com/Things-Supplication-Souls-Dialogue-Conscience/dp/1889334650/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1288942061&sr=1-1

take care,
amsjj 🙂

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Jesus, God and man,
imprisoned by love in Thy most holy Sacrament,
have mercy upon us.
– Blessed John Henry Newman, December 22, 1851
(LD, XIV, 511).
 
amsjj said:
Hello,

Most of the titles in the first part of that list are against specific heretical works, so I’d recommend the later titles. Perhaps the one with the most “general” focus is “Four Last Things”, certainly a topic that’s always timely.

Here’s a description I found of that:
The Four Last Things develops More’s advice to his daughter Margaret to meditate on Death, Judgement, Pain and Joy as medicinal herbs in the battle against the spiritual sicknesses of pride, covetousness, lust, anger, gluttony, envy and sloth.
amazon.com/Things-Supplication-Souls-Dialogue-Conscience/dp/1889334650/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1288942061&sr=1-1

take care,
amsjj 🙂

+++
Jesus, God and man,
imprisoned by love in Thy most holy Sacrament,
have mercy upon us.
– Blessed John Henry Newman, December 22, 1851
(LD, XIV, 511).
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thank you so much.
 
There’s a book called “The King’s Good Servant, but God’s First” that is very good. It’s about him, not by him, but it does have many exerpts of his writings. It might be good for the person in question because it provides the example of More’s life, whereas More himself in his writings is not going sing his own praises.
 
Genesis315 said:
There’s a book called “The King’s Good Servant, but God’s First” that is very good. It’s about him, not by him, but it does have many exerpts of his writings. It might be good for the person in question because it provides the example of More’s life, whereas More himself in his writings is not going sing his own praises.
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ok thank you.
 
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