Heaven and Hell: A History of the Afterlife
By: Bart D. Ehrman
4.06
Format: 327 pages, Hardcover
A New York Times bestselling historian of early Christianity takes on two of the most gripping ques…
Want to Read $ 13.99"It is impossible to overrate the importance of Homer on the culture and religion of ancient Greece. It is not that the Iliad and the Odyssey were “the Bible"-Bart D. Ehrman, Heaven and Hell: A History of the Afterlife
"The problem with material remains is that they are silent: they don't provide their own interpretations. And that means various interpretations are possible."-Bart D. Ehrman, Heaven and Hell: A History of the Afterlife
"The Old Testament says no word about either eternal bliss for the righteous dead or everlasting punishment for the wicked. The poets praise God, instead, for allowing them to stay alive for a while longer, making it possible for them still to praise him."-Bart D. Ehrman, Heaven and Hell: A History of the Afterlife
"The fear of death in antiquity differed from the terrors of torment or horrors of actual nonexistence experienced by so many in the West today. It was instead the dread of losing out on everything a full life has to offer, everything that makes living pleasant."-Bart D. Ehrman, Heaven and Hell: A History of the Afterlife
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1. Who Wrote the Bible?
By: Richard Elliott Friedman
4.12
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
The contemporary classic The New York Times Book Review called "a thought-provoking [and] perceptiv… read more
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"Every biblical story reflects something that mattered to its author. Whenever we figure out what it was and why it mattered, we move a step closer to knowing who wrote a part of the Bible."-Richard Elliott Friedman, Who Wrote the Bible?
2. 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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3. 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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5. 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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6. A History of Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years
By: Diarmaid MacCulloch
3.89
Format: None pages,
The author of The Reformationreturns with the definitive history of Christianity for our time. Once… read more
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7. The Case for God
By: Karen Armstrong
4.05
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Moving from the Paleolithic age to the present, Karen Armstrong details the great lengths to which … read more
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8. 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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9. Genesis for Normal People: A Guide to the Most Controversial, Misunderstood, and Abused Book of the Bible
By: Peter Enns , Jared Byas
4.60
Format: 200 pages, Kindle Edition
Given the fever-pitched controversies about evolution, Adam and Eve, and scientific evidence for th… read more
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10. The Evolution of Adam: What the Bible Does and Doesn't Say about Human Origins
By: Peter Enns
3.91
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
Can Christianity and evolution coexist? Traditional Christian teaching presents Jesus as reversing … read more
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11. Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived
By: Rob Bell
3.66
Format: 243 pages, Kindle Edition
Millions of Christians have struggled with how to reconcile God's love and God's judgment: Has God… read more
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"You turn the light on, you get all kinds of bugs."-Rob Bell, Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived
"Forgiveness is unilateral. God isn’t waiting for us to get it together, to clean up, shape up, get up - God has already done it."-Rob Bell, Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived
"...Jesus responds to almost every question he's asked with...a question. "What do you think? How do you read it?" he asks, again and again and again."-Rob Bell, Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived
"Love demands freedom. It always has, and it always will. We are free to resist, reject, and rebel against God's ways for us. We can have all the hell we want."-Rob Bell, Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived
12. 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
13. The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church
By: Sarah McCammon
4.21
Format: 310 pages, Hardcover
The first definitive book that names the massive social movement of people leaving the white evange… read more
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14. Heaven and Hell: A History of the Afterlife
By: Bart D. Ehrman
4.06
Format: 327 pages, Hardcover
A New York Times bestselling historian of early Christianity takes on two of the most gripping ques… read more
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"It is impossible to overrate the importance of Homer on the culture and religion of ancient Greece. It is not that the Iliad and the Odyssey were “the Bible"-Bart D. Ehrman, Heaven and Hell: A History of the Afterlife
"The problem with material remains is that they are silent: they don't provide their own interpretations. And that means various interpretations are possible."-Bart D. Ehrman, Heaven and Hell: A History of the Afterlife
"The Old Testament says no word about either eternal bliss for the righteous dead or everlasting punishment for the wicked. The poets praise God, instead, for allowing them to stay alive for a while l…"-Bart D. Ehrman, Heaven and Hell: A History of the Afterlife
"The fear of death in antiquity differed from the terrors of torment or horrors of actual nonexistence experienced by so many in the West today. It was instead the dread of losing out on everything a …"-Bart D. Ehrman, Heaven and Hell: A History of the Afterlife
15. Curveball: When Your Faith Takes Turns You Never Saw Coming (or How I Stumbled and Tripped My Way to Finding a Bigger God)
By: Peter Enns
4.36
Format: 239 pages, Kindle Edition
“Peter Enns is brilliant at taking the big topics, those Christian ideas that usually scare us or i… read more
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"Does the God of Abraham look lovingly upon ancient cave drawings and temples dedicated to the only gods ancient humans could have known?"-Peter Enns, Curveball: When Your Faith Takes Turns You Never Saw Coming (or How I Stumbled and Tripped My Way to Finding a Bigger God)
"Like a frail plant that needs careful tending and constant protection from sun and wind, perhaps the real problem wasn’t me but the fragile, unsustainable version of Christianity I had been told was …"-Peter Enns, Curveball: When Your Faith Takes Turns You Never Saw Coming (or How I Stumbled and Tripped My Way to Finding a Bigger God)
"Placeholder theology is the very nature of theology. By it we acknowledge the human need to say something about ultimate meaning concerning the Creator and the creation while also understanding that …"-Peter Enns, Curveball: When Your Faith Takes Turns You Never Saw Coming (or How I Stumbled and Tripped My Way to Finding a Bigger God)
"A God who does not connect to the world around us is a God who cannot speak to us. Believing in a God who demands that we continue to adopt only biblically ancient ways of thinking of God, which are …"-Peter Enns, Curveball: When Your Faith Takes Turns You Never Saw Coming (or How I Stumbled and Tripped My Way to Finding a Bigger God)
16. Love Matters More: How Fighting to Be Right Keeps Us from Loving Like Jesus
By: Jared Byas
4.47
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
For years, Christians have argued, debated, and fought one another while "speaking the truth in lov… read more
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17. 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
18. A History of the Bible: The Book and Its Faiths
By: John Barton
4.09
Format: 613 pages, Hardcover
A uniquely ambitious study of the Bible's creation: how it came to be written, how its contents wer… read more
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19. God's Monsters: Vengeful Spirits, Deadly Angels, Hybrid Creatures, and Divine Hitmen of the Bible
By: Esther J. Hamori
4.01
Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition
The Bible is teeming with monsters. Giants tromp through the land of milk and honey; Leviathan swim… read more
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20. The Bible With and Without Jesus: How Jews and Christians Read the Same Stories Differently
By: Amy-Jill Levine
4.08
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
The editors of The Jewish Annotated New Testament explore how Jews and Christians can learn from an… read more
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21. Exodus for Normal People: A Guide to the Story—and History—of the Second Book of the Bible
By: Peter Enns
4.30
Format: 206 pages, Kindle Edition
Behind the scenes of movies like The Ten Commandments, The Prince of Egypt, or Gods and Kings is a… read more
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