Mike Pellatt wrote:

> On Mon, 29 Dec 1997 18:40:52 GMT, Tim Ingham

> <> wrote:

>> I got junk email from DiscountChristian.com, advertising

>> “330 books on one CD-ROM”, and it sounded to me as if it

>> would be a good thing – loads of writings by some seriously

>> historical Christians, like Luther, Calvin, Wesley etc.

>>

>> So I ordered it, and I still think it’s good. Most of the

>> stuff is things I wouldn’t go out and buy, but it doesn’t

>> take up much shelf space and it’s good to have it.

>

> Oh dear. Someone who bought something marketted via

> junk e-mail.

>

> Please don’t. It only encourages them to believe the

> Canter & Siegel and Spamford Wallace hype that it

> really is a _great_ way to sell things.

>

> It isn’t. It’s a pain in the a**e.

I heartily concur. Incidentally, you can find a wide selection

of Christian classics, all for free, without supporting any

spammers, at http://ccel.wheaton.edu/
Some highlights of the collection:

– St Thomas Aquinas, “Summa Theologica”

– St Athanasius, “On the Incarnation”

– St Augustine, “The City of God”

– John Bunyan, “Pingrim’s Progress”

– John Calvin, “Institutes of the Christian Religion”

– G K Chesterton, “Orthodoxy”

– Dante Aligheri, “The Divine Comedy”

– Matthew Henry, “Concise Commentary on the Whole Bible”

– St John of the Cross, “The Dark Night of the Soul”

– Julian of Norwich, “Revelations of Divine Love”

– Thomas a Kempis, “The Imitation of Christ”

– Martin Luther, “The Large Catechism”

– John Milton, “Paradise Lost”

– Blaise Pascal, “Pensees”
Many of these are in fact held elsewhere than at ccel.wheaton.edu.
—

Gareth McCaughan Dept. of Pure Mathematics & Mathematical Statistics,

 Cambridge University, England.