The similar phrase 'Worldly Christianity' is one used by Bonhoeffer. It's J Gresham Machen that I want to line up most closely with. See his Christianity and culture here. Having done commentaries on Proverbs (Heavenly Wisdom) and Song of Songs (Heavenly Love), a matching title for Ecclesiastes would be Heavenly Worldliness. For my stance on worldliness, see 3 posts here.

10 The Lives


There are some well known collections of Lives (and some less well known)

  1. The Lives of the Caesars by Suetonius
  2. The Lives of the Artists by Vasari
  3. The Lives of the most eminent English Poets by Samuel Johnson (Milton, Swift, Dryden, etc)
  4. Parallel Lives by Plutarch (23 paired lives of Greeks and Romans)
  5. The Lives of the Saints by the Venerable Bede (ie "The Voyage of St Brendan", Bede's "Life of Cuthbert" and Eddius's Life of Wilfred)
  6. The Lives of Early Methodist Preachers: Chiefly Written by Themselves.(Six volume 19th century work)
  7. The Lives of the Kings and Queens of England by Antonia Fraser
  8. The Lives of the prime ministers of England from the Restoration to the present time Volume 1 by J Houston Browne (1858)
  9. American Caesars: Lives of the US Presidents, from Franklin D. Roosevelt to George W. Bush by Nigel Hamilton
  10. The Lives of the Novelists by John Sutherland (294 lives)
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