Seekers after God
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Who it's for
A good fit for
- Readers interested in the history of religious thought and classical culture, as extended reading
- Readers who enjoy nineteenth-century English essays and are willing to read slowly for style
- Advanced learners who need an English religious text as language-learning material
- General readers who wish to understand pagan quests for faith before Christianity
Not a good fit for
- Readers seeking a systematic theology textbook or catechism
- General leisure readers who prefer modern vernacular and fast-paced narrative
- Beginners with weak English reading skills who need sentence-by-sentence annotation
Reading tips
- Read the table of contents and preface first to grasp the thread of figures, then go chapter by chapter; there is no need to finish in one sitting.
- After each chapter, note in a few sentences the central dilemma of that figure's quest for the divine, for easy comparison later.
- When you meet judgments heavy with period flavor, annotate your doubts in the margin and treat them as intellectual-history material rather than settled conclusions.
- If the English is difficult, read alongside a Chinese book on religious history to lower the threshold of understanding.
About the publisher
Project Gutenberg is a digital publishing project focused on public-domain ebooks. Its publishing direction centers on classic literary works whose copyright has expired, covering genres such as poetry, drama, fiction, and epic. Representative books include Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge, Proust's Du côté de chez Swann, Shakespeare's Macbeth and The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Homer's The Iliad, Dante's La Divina Comèdia: Purgatòri, Cervantes's The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, and Grahame's The Wind in the Willows. Its author resources consist mainly of classic Western writers such as Wordsworth, Proust, Shakespeare, Homer, Dante, Cervantes, Grahame, and Tolstoy. Its publishing feature is the provision of freely accessible ebooks in EPUB and Kindle formats; it is not a traditional publisher, and publicly available information is limited.
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About the author
F. W. Farrar (Frederic William Farrar, 1831–1903) was a nineteenth-century English Anglican clergyman, theologian and prolific author. The library holds eleven of his works, including Bible commentaries written for general readers, such as the volumes on the Second Book of Kings and the Book of Daniel in The Expositor's Bible series, a Life of Christ composed in Greek (Ο Βίος του Χριστού), and studies of religious thought and the search for faith such as Seekers after God and Jumalan etsijöitä. He also wrote historical novels and school stories: Darkness and Dawn is set in Rome under Nero, while Eric, or, Little by Little and St. Winifred's depict school life with a strong moral purpose. His prose is clear and readable, blending theological discussion with narrative, and his works found a wide readership in the Victorian era. As public information is limited, no further details of his life are given here.
