The Triumph of Christianity: How a Forbidden Religion Swept the World
By: Bart D. Ehrman
3.94
Format: None pages, Audio CD
The “marvelous” (Reza Aslan, bestselling author of Zealot), New York Times bestselling story of how…
Want to Read $ 10.92"Today we are familiar with the funereal abbreviation “RIP"-Bart D. Ehrman, The Triumph of Christianity: How a Forbidden Religion Swept the World
"Because of the open nature of polytheism, there was virtually no such thing as “conversion."-Bart D. Ehrman, The Triumph of Christianity: How a Forbidden Religion Swept the World
"atheism was an exceedingly rare phenomenon in antiquity: very few people believed there were literally no gods. The word “atheism"-Bart D. Ehrman, The Triumph of Christianity: How a Forbidden Religion Swept the World
"Ancient people, whether pagans, Jews, or Christians, did not neatly differentiate between the religious and the political. They would have had a hard time understanding the difference."-Bart D. Ehrman, The Triumph of Christianity: How a Forbidden Religion Swept the World
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1. What Is the Bible?: How an Ancient Library of Poems, Letters, and Stories Can Transform the Way You Think and Feel About Everything
By: Rob Bell
4.32
Format: 336 pages, ebook
Rob Bell, the beloved author of Love Wins and What We Talk About When We Talk About God, goes deep … read more
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2. Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare
By: Stephen Greenblatt
3.87
Format: 438 pages, Paperback
Named One of Esquire 's 50 Best Biographies of All Time The Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award… read more
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3. Reflections on the Revolution in France
By: Edmund Burke , L.G. Mitchell
3.55
Format: 199 pages, Paperback
This new and up-to-date edition of a book that has been central to political philosophy, history, a… read more
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4. The Origin of Satan: How Christians Demonized Jews, Pagans and Heretics
By: Elaine Pagels
3.88
Format: 136 pages, Paperback
From the religious historian whose The Gnostic Gospels won both the National Book Award and the Nat… read more
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5. Popes and the Papacy: A History (Great Courses, # 6672)
By: Thomas F.X. Noble
3.66
Format: None pages, Audio CD
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6. The Bible Tells Me So: Why Defending Scripture Has Made Us Unable to Read It
By: Joe Barrett , Peter Enns
3.63
Format: 371 pages, Hardcover
The controversial Bible scholar and author of The Evolution of Adamrecounts his transformative spir… read more
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7. Paul and Jesus: How the Apostle Transformed Christianity
By: James D. Tabor
4.48
Format: 356 pages, ebook
This fascinating examination of the earliest years of Christianity reveals sharply competing ideas … read more
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8. The Gnostic Gospels
By: Elaine Pagels
4.36
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
The Gnostic Gospels is a landmark study of the long-buried roots of Christianity, a work of luminou… read more
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10. Revelations: Visions, Prophecy, and Politics in the Book of Revelation
By: Elaine Pagels
4.12
Format: 206 pages, Hardcover
A startling exploration of the history of the most controversial book of the Bible, by the bestsell… read more
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11. The Cold War: A World History
By: Odd Arne Westad
3.33
Format: 140 pages, Hardcover
From a Bancroft Prize-winning scholar, a new global history of the Cold War and its ongoing impact … read more
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12. Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon
By: Daniel C. Dennett
3.74
Format: 646 pages,
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13. Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth
By: Reza Aslan
3.96
Format: 236 pages, Hardcover
From the internationally bestselling author of No god but Godcomes a fascinating, provocative, and … read more
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14. Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier and Happier
By: Edward L. Glaeser
4.60
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A pioneering urban economist offers fascinating, even inspiring proof that the city is humanity's g… read more
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15. American Zion: A New History of Mormonism
By: Benjamin E. Park
4.21
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
The first major history of Mormonism in a decade, drawing on newly available sources to reveal a pr… read more
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16. The Atheist Handbook to the Old Testament: Volume 1
By: Joshua Bowen
4.21
Format: 451 pages, Kindle Edition
The Old Testament is a fierce battleground for atheists and Christian apologists, with each side ac… read more
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17. Ten Caesars: Roman Emperors from Augustus to Constantine
By: Barry S. Strauss
3.97
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Barry Strauss tells the story of the Roman Empire from rise to reinvention, from Augustus, who foun… read more
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18. England: From the Fall of Rome to the Norman Conquest
By: Jennifer Paxton
4.28
Format: None pages, Audible Audio
Great Courses Plus Dr. Jennifer Paxton is Assistant Director of the University Honors Program and … read more
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19. Ancient Writing and the History of the Alphabet
By: John McWhorter
3.99
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The ubiquity of the written word in our everyday lives can make it easy to forget how recent the de… read more
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20. God: An Anatomy
By: Francesca Stavrakopoulou
4.25
Format: 608 pages, Hardcover
An astonishing and revelatory history that re-presents God as he was originally envisioned by ancie… read more
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"How could I not be distracted? Here was a deity just like those I’d visited in museums as a child—a god of ancient myths, fantastic stories and long-lost rituals; a god from the distant past, from a …"-Francesca Stavrakopoulou, God: An Anatomy
21. The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World
By: Catherine Nixey
4.06
Format: 363 pages, Kindle Edition
The Darkening Age is the largely unknown story of how a militant religion deliberately attacked and… read more
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"Un mártir podía empezar el día de su muerte como una de las personas de más baja categoría en el imperio y acabar como una de las más eminentes en el cielo."-Catherine Nixey, The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World
"El cristianismo contó a las generaciones posteriores que su victoria sobre el viejo mundo fue celebrada por todas, y las siguientes generaciones lo creyeron."-Catherine Nixey, The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World
"For every classical work that sat comfortably with Christian minds and morals, there was another that grated unbearably on them. ‘Carmen 16’ by the poet Catullus was a particular thorn. This poem ope…"-Catherine Nixey, The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World
"The very memory that there was any opposition at all to Christianity faded. The idea that philosophers might have fought fiercely, with all they had, against Christianity was – is – passed over. The …"-Catherine Nixey, The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World
22. Lenin the Dictator
By: Victor Sebestyen
4.25
Format: 593 pages, Kindle Edition
'A fresh, powerful portrait of Lenin' Anne Applebaum, author of Red Famine'Richly readable ... An e… read more
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"In England and France, they executed their kings some centuries ago, but we were late with ours."-Victor Sebestyen, Lenin the Dictator
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"The public Lenin adopted a highly populist style of politics that would be recognisable – and imitated by many a rabble-rouser – a hundred years later, even in long-established, sophisticated democra…"-Victor Sebestyen, Lenin the Dictator
23. The Triumph of Christianity: How a Forbidden Religion Swept the World
By: Bart D. Ehrman
3.94
Format: None pages, Audio CD
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"Today we are familiar with the funereal abbreviation “RIP"-Bart D. Ehrman, The Triumph of Christianity: How a Forbidden Religion Swept the World
"Because of the open nature of polytheism, there was virtually no such thing as “conversion."-Bart D. Ehrman, The Triumph of Christianity: How a Forbidden Religion Swept the World
"atheism was an exceedingly rare phenomenon in antiquity: very few people believed there were literally no gods. The word “atheism"-Bart D. Ehrman, The Triumph of Christianity: How a Forbidden Religion Swept the World
"Ancient people, whether pagans, Jews, or Christians, did not neatly differentiate between the religious and the political. They would have had a hard time understanding the difference."-Bart D. Ehrman, The Triumph of Christianity: How a Forbidden Religion Swept the World
24. That All Shall Be Saved: Heaven, Hell, and Universal Salvation
By: David Bentley Hart
4.26
Format: 232 pages, Hardcover
The great fourth-century church father Basil of Caesarea once observed that, in his time, most Chri… read more
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"As far as I am concerned, anyone who hopes for the universal reconciliation of all creatures with God must already believe that this would be the best possible ending to the Christian story; and such…"-David Bentley Hart, That All Shall Be Saved: Heaven, Hell, and Universal Salvation
"Really, on the whole, Christians rarely pay particularly close attention to what the Bible actually says, for the simple reason that the texts defy synthesis in a canon of exact doctrines, and yet mo…"-David Bentley Hart, That All Shall Be Saved: Heaven, Hell, and Universal Salvation
25. The Return of the God Hypothesis: Three Scientific Discoveries Revealing the Mind Behind the Universe
By: Stephen C. Meyer
4.43
Format: 576 pages, ebook
The New York Times bestselling author of Darwin’s Doubt and Intelligent Design scholar presents gro… read more
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26. Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present
By: Fareed Zakaria
4.23
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
The CNN host and best-selling author explores the revolutions—past and present—that define the pola… read more
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27. American Idolatry: How Christian Nationalism Betrays the Gospel and Threatens the Church
By: Andrew L. Whitehead
4.20
Format: 215 pages, Hardcover
"Heartfelt, incisive, and worthy of thoughtful consideration."-- Library Journal Power. Fear. Viol… read more
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"Jesus calls us to be a light, not a wildfire."-Andrew L. Whitehead, American Idolatry: How Christian Nationalism Betrays the Gospel and Threatens the Church
"When it comes down to democracy or power, white Christian nationalism will choose power every time."-Andrew L. Whitehead, American Idolatry: How Christian Nationalism Betrays the Gospel and Threatens the Church
"Christian nationalism is not interested in a government for the people, by the people, but rather for a particular people, by a particular people."-Andrew L. Whitehead, American Idolatry: How Christian Nationalism Betrays the Gospel and Threatens the Church
"Our ability to love, serve, and act as salt and light in our communities is not dependent on various symbols of Christianity dominating the civic landscape."-Andrew L. Whitehead, American Idolatry: How Christian Nationalism Betrays the Gospel and Threatens the Church
28. Wagnerism: Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music
By: Alex Ross
4.18
Format: 784 pages, Hardcover
Alex Ross, renowned New Yorker music critic and author of the international bestseller and Pulitzer… read more
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29. Alma 30–63: A Brief Theological Introduction (The Book of Mormon: Brief Theological Introductions, #7)
By: Mark A. Wrathall
4.45
Format: 164 pages, Paperback
"Now is the time and the day of your salvation . . ." Alma the Younger is forever changed by an … read more
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30. Nature's Mutiny: How the Little Ice Age of the Long Seventeenth Century Transformed the West and Shaped the Present
By: Philipp Blom
3.58
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Although hints of a crisis appeared as early as the 1570s, the temperature by the end of the sixtee… read more
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31. The Difficult Words of Jesus: A Beginner's Guide to His Most Perplexing Teachings
By: Amy-Jill Levine
3.94
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Examine the most difficult teachings of Jesus with Dr. Amy-Jill Levine. Jesus provided his d… read more
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