Theological Retrieval for Evangelicals: Why We Need Our Past to Have a Future
By: Gavin Ortlund
4.29
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Restless for rootedness, many Christians are abandoning Protestantism altogether. Many evangelicals…
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1. The Cost of Discipleship
By: Dietrich Bonhoeffer
4.30
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
One of the most important theologians of the twentieth century illuminates the relationship between… read more
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"When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die."-Dietrich Bonhoeffer, The Cost of Discipleship
"Discipleship is not an offer that man makes to Christ."-Dietrich Bonhoeffer, The Cost of Discipleship
"Only he who believes is obedient, and only he who is obedient believes."-Dietrich Bonhoeffer, The Cost of Discipleship
"Strict exercise of self-control is an essential feature of the Christian's life."-Dietrich Bonhoeffer, The Cost of Discipleship
2. The Book of Pastoral Rule
By: Pope Gregory I
4.10
Format: 136 pages, Paperback
Recognized as the most thorough pastoral treatise of the patristic era, this sixth-century work by … read more
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3. Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community
By: Dietrich Bonhoeffer
4.27
Format: 122 pages, Paperback
After his martyrdom at the hands of the Gestapo in 1945, Dietrich Bonhoeffer continued his witness … read more
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"God is not a God of the emotions but the God of truth."-Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community
"We pray for the big things and forget to give thanks for the ordinary, small (and yet really not small) gifts."-Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community
"It is only when he is a burden that another person is really a brother and not merely an object to be manipulated"-Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community
"The Church does not need brilliant personalities but faithful servants of Jesus and the brethren. Not in the former but in the latter is the lack."-Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community
4. The Story of Christianity: Volume 1: The Early Church to the Reformation
By: Justo L. González
4.00
Format: 371 pages, Paperback
Sheds light on the major cultural and theological currents shaping the church during this period. read more
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5. On the Incarnation
By: C.S. Lewis , Athanasius of Alexandria , None
3.29
Format: None pages, Paperback
A universally acknowledged masterpiece of fourth-century patristic theology. As C. S. Lewis observe… read more
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6. The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind
By: Mark A. Noll
3.80
Format: 8 pages, Paperback
"The scandal of the evangelical mind is that there is not much of an evangelical mind." So begins t… read more
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7. How Should We Then Live? The Rise and Decline of Western Thought and Culture
By: Francis A. Schaeffer
3.56
Format: None pages, Paperback
In dit boek, dat ontstaan is naar aanleiding van de gelijknamige televisie serie, neemt de auteur o… read more
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8. Rediscovering the Church Fathers: Who They Were and How They Shaped the Church
By: Michael A.G. Azad Haykin
3.85
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
While the church today looks quite different than it did two thousand years ago, Christians share t… read more
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9. The Abolition of Man
By: C.S. Lewis
3.97
Format: 480 pages, Paperback
Alternative cover for ISBN: 978-0060652944 The Abolition of Man, Lewis uses his graceful prose, del… read more
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10. The Bruised Reed
By: Richard Sibbes
4.44
Format: 134 pages, Paperback
In this famous exposition of Isaiah 42:3, Sibbes unfolds the tender ministry of Jesus Christ, who i… read more
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"Weakness with watchfulness will stand, when strength with too much confidence fails. Weakness, with acknowledgement of it, is the fittest seat and subject for God to perfect his strength in; for cons…"-Richard Sibbes, The Bruised Reed
"Moses, without any mercy, breaks all bruised reeds, and quenches all smoking flax. For the law requires personal, perpetual and perfect obedience from the heart, and that under a most terrible curse,…"-Richard Sibbes, The Bruised Reed
11. The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self: Cultural Amnesia, Expressive Individualism, and the Road to Sexual Revolution
By: Carl R. Trueman
4.57
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Modern culture is obsessed with identity. Since the landmark Obergefell v. Hodges Supreme Court … read more
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"[I]n the work of the New Left one finds philosophical justification for what are now intuitive commonplaces of our culture: to be free is to be sexually liberated; to be happy is to be affirmed in th…"-Carl R. Trueman, The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self: Cultural Amnesia, Expressive Individualism, and the Road to Sexual Revolution
"The expressive individual is now the sexually expressive individual. And education and socialization are to be marked not by the cultivation of traditional sexual interdicts and taboos but rather by …"-Carl R. Trueman, The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self: Cultural Amnesia, Expressive Individualism, and the Road to Sexual Revolution
12. Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World
By: Tom Holland
4.26
Format: 624 pages, Hardcover
A "marvelous" (Economist) account of how the Christian Revolution forged the Western imagination. … read more
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"To hail a religion for its compatibility with a secular society was decidedly not a neutral gesture. Secularism was no less bred of the sweep of Christian history than were Orban's barbed-wire fences…"-Tom Holland, Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World
13. Strange New World: How Thinkers and Activists Redefined Identity and Sparked the Sexual Revolution
By: Carl R. Trueman
4.50
Format: 204 pages, Paperback
From Philosophy to Technology, Tracing the Origin of Identity Politics How did the world arrive … read more
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14. Remaking the World: How 1776 Created the Post-Christian West
By: Andrew Wilson
4.51
Format: 473 pages, Kindle Edition
How 7 Transformational Events in 1776 Paved the Way for Today’s Post-Christian West With dizzyin… read more
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15. Miracles
By: C.S. Lewis
4.05
Format: 294 pages, Paperback
‘The central miracle asserted by Christians is the Incarnation. They say that God became Man. Every… read more
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"Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature."-C.S. Lewis, Miracles
"Sexual intercourse is rapidly becoming the one thing venerated in a world without veneration."-C.S. Lewis, Miracles
"In Science we have been reading only the notes to a poem; in Christianity we find the poem itself."-C.S. Lewis, Miracles
"Death is a safety-device because, once Man has fallen, natural immortality would be the one utterly hopeless destiny for him."-C.S. Lewis, Miracles
16. Into the Heart of Romans: A Deep Dive into Paul's Greatest Letter
By: Tom Wright
4.49
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
An in-depth study of Romans from today's foremost interpreter of Paul. Romans is often and for good… read more
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17. Biblical Critical Theory: How the Bible's Unfolding Story Makes Sense of Modern Life and Culture
By: Christopher Watkin
4.55
Format: 672 pages, Hardcover
*With a foreword from Tim Keller* A bold vision for Christians who want to engage the world in a wa… read more
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18. The Trinity: An Introduction (Short Studies in Systematic Theology)
By: Scott R. Swain
4.49
Format: 161 pages, Paperback
Practical Theology for the Church Today The Trinity is one of the most essential doctrines of th… read more
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19. Theological Retrieval for Evangelicals: Why We Need Our Past to Have a Future
By: Gavin Ortlund
4.29
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Restless for rootedness, many Christians are abandoning Protestantism altogether. Many evangelicals… read more
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20. The Loveliest Place: The Beauty and Glory of the Church
By: Dustin W. Benge
4.19
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Awakening Affection for the Beauty of God's Church Dear. Precious. Lovely. The Bible describes t… read more
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21. Crisis of Confidence: Reclaiming the Historic Faith in a Culture Consumed with Individualism and Identity
By: Carl R. Trueman
4.41
Format: 216 pages, Hardcover
Carl Trueman Analyzes How Ancient Creeds and Confessions Protect and Promote Biblical Christianity … read more
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