17 Best christian books like The World's Last Night: And Other Essays by C.S. Lewis

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The World's Last Night: And Other Essays

By: C.S. Lewis

4.21

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Available from HarperOne, now the exclusive publisher of all of C. S. Lewis’s adult religious books…

"In Gethsemane the holiest of all petitioners prayed three times that a certain cup might pass from Him. It did not."

-C.S. Lewis, The World's Last Night: And Other Essays

"In Gethsemane the holiest of all petitioners prayed three times that a certain cup might pass from Him. It did not."

-C.S. Lewis, The World's Last Night: And Other Essays

"I fully embrace the maxim (which he borrows from a Christian) that 'all power corrupts'. I would go further. The loftier the pretensions of the power, the more meddlesome, inhuman, and oppressive it will be."

-C.S. Lewis, The World's Last Night: And Other Essays

"I fully embrace the maxim (which he borrows from a Christian) that 'all power corrupts'. I would go further. The loftier the pretensions of the power, the more meddlesome, inhuman, and oppressive it will be."

-C.S. Lewis, The World's Last Night: And Other Essays

If you liked the christian plot in The World's Last Night: And Other Essays by C.S. Lewis , here is a list of 17 books like this:

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1. Counterfeit Gods: The Empty Promises of Money, Sex, and Power, and the Only Hope that Matters

By: Timothy J. Keller

4.35

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling author of The Reason for God and The Songs of Jesus and a nationally… read more

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"The true god of your heart is what your thoughts effortlessly go to when there is nothing else demanding your attention."

-Timothy J. Keller, Counterfeit Gods: The Empty Promises of Money, Sex, and Power, and the Only Hope that Matters

"When people say, "I know God forgives me, but I can't forgive myself," they mean that they have failed an idol, whose approval is more important than God's."

-Timothy J. Keller, Counterfeit Gods: The Empty Promises of Money, Sex, and Power, and the Only Hope that Matters

"People "at the top" are eager to attribute their position to their own intellect, savvy, and hard work. The reality is much more complicated. Personal connections, family environment, and what appear…"

-Timothy J. Keller, Counterfeit Gods: The Empty Promises of Money, Sex, and Power, and the Only Hope that Matters

"When anything in life is an absolute requirement for your happiness and self-worth, it is essentially an ‘idol,’ something you are actually worshiping. When such a thing is threatened, your anger is …"

-Timothy J. Keller, Counterfeit Gods: The Empty Promises of Money, Sex, and Power, and the Only Hope that Matters

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2. Soon: The Beginning of the End (Underground Zealot, #1)

By: Jerry B. Jenkins

4.11

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

2004 Christy Fiction award winner! Paul Stepola, an agent working for the National Peacekeeping Org… read more

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3. The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare

By: Jonathan Lethem , G.K. Chesterton

2.67

Format: 166 pages,

G.K. Chesterton's 1908 masterpiece, The Man Who Was Thursday, is a metaphysical thriller, and a det… read more

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  • philosophy
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4. The Everlasting Man

By: G.K. Chesterton

4.16

Format: 260 pages, Paperback

What, if anything, is it that makes the human uniquely human? This, in part, is the question that G… read more

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"Men are moved most by their religion; especially when it is irreligion."

-G.K. Chesterton, The Everlasting Man

"Classic literature is still something that hangs in the air like a song."

-G.K. Chesterton, The Everlasting Man

"A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it."

-G.K. Chesterton, The Everlasting Man

"The boldest plans for the future invoke the authority of the past; and that even a revolutionary seeks to satisfy himself that he is also a reactionary."

-G.K. Chesterton, The Everlasting Man

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5. Is That Really You, God?: Hearing the Voice of God

By: Loren Cunningham

4.09

Format: 116 pages, Paperback

This practical guide to hearing God's voice shows how an ordinary man who committed to hearing God … read more

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6. A Hobbit, a Wardrobe, and a Great War: How J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis Rediscovered Faith, Friendship, and Heroism in the Cataclysm of 1914-18

By: Joseph Loconte

3.99

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The untold story of how the First World War shaped the lives, faith, and writings of J. R. R. Tolki… read more

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  • christian
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7. Between Heaven & Hell

By: Peter Kreeft

3.38

Format: None pages, Paperback

Combining logical argument with literary imagination, Peter Kreeft uses a dialogue between C.S. Lew… read more

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8. Orthodoxy

By: G.K. Chesterton

4.11

Format: 528 pages, Paperback

Chesterton (The Man Who Knew Too Much) capped his brilliant literary career with this exploration o… read more

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9. Phantastes

By: George MacDonald

3.48

Format: 93 pages, Paperback

"I was dead, and right content," the narrator says in the penultimate chapter of Phantastes. C.S. L… read more

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10. The Great Omission: Reclaiming Jesus's Essential Teachings on Discipleship

By: Dallas Willard

3.93

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The last command Jesus gave the church before he ascended to heaven was the Great Commission, the c… read more

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11. Culture Making: Recovering Our Creative Calling

By: Andy Crouch

3.15

Format: None pages, Hardcover

2009 Christianity Today Book Award winner! Named one of Publishers Weekly's best books of 2008 (rel… read more

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12. 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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13. The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism

By: Timothy J. Keller

4.00

Format: None pages,

. The End of Faith. The God Delusion. God Is Not Great. Letter to a Christian Nation. Bestseller l… read more

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14. Kingdom's Dawn (Kingdom, #1)

By: Chuck Black

2.00

Format: 161 pages, Paperback

A Riveting Medieval Parallel to the Bible Good and evil clash. Leinad and Cedric are determined to … read more

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15. The Knowledge of the Holy

By: A.W. Tozer

3.98

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

The Knowledge of the Holyby popular evangelical author and Christian mystic A.W. Tozer illuminates … read more

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16. The Book of Lost Tales, Part Two (The History of Middle-Earth, #2)

By: J.R.R. Tolkien , Christopher Tolkien

2.65

Format: 34 pages, Mass Market Paperback

This second part of The Book of Lost Tales includes the tale of Beren and Luthien, Turin and the Dr… read more

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17. Tree and Leaf: Includes Mythopoeia and The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth

By: J.R.R. Tolkien

2.65

Format: 34 pages, Paperback

This volume is a provocative and entertaining collection of works which reveals the diversity of J.… read more

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18. Beyond the Gathering Storm (Canadian West #5)

By: Janette Oke

3.60

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

The love of Wynn and Elizabeth Delaney has healed their adopted son Henry's painful memories and he… read more

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19. Saint Thomas Aquinas

By: G.K. Chesterton , Anton C. Pegis

4.45

Format: None pages, Paperback

G.K. Chesterton's brilliant sketch of the life and thought of Thomas Aquinas is as relevant today a… read more

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20. Hope of the Gospel

By: George MacDonald

3.33

Format: 194 pages,

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21. The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien

By: Humphrey Carpenter , J.R.R. Tolkien , Christopher Tolkien

4.40

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

'...If you wanted to go on from the end of The Hobbit I think the ring would be your inevitable cho… read more

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22. 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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23. The Lord of Psalm 23: Jesus Our Shepherd, Companion, and Host

By: David Gibson

4.74

Format: 157 pages, Kindle Edition

Expository Study of Psalm 23 Reveals the Beauty and Deep Theological Meaning behind a Familiar Part… read more

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24. Digital Liturgies: Rediscovering Christian Wisdom in an Online Age

By: Samuel James

4.44

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

How the Habitat of Internet Technology Undermines Christian Wisdom With advancements in internet te… read more

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25. Rembrandt Is in the Wind: Learning to Love Art through the Eyes of Faith

By: Russ Ramsey

4.53

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

How do art and faith intersect? How does art help us see our own lives more clearly? What can we un… read more

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"The pattern in Scripture is that of God working through unlikely servants for the glory of his name and the spread of the gospel."

-Russ Ramsey, Rembrandt Is in the Wind: Learning to Love Art through the Eyes of Faith

"The more we engage with beauty, the more we train our hearts to anticipate finding beauty, until eventually, everywhere we go, we're looking for it."

-Russ Ramsey, Rembrandt Is in the Wind: Learning to Love Art through the Eyes of Faith

"Many artists took their easels and paints outside and captured what they saw. Vincent wanted to capture what he felt as he tried to remember what he saw."

-Russ Ramsey, Rembrandt Is in the Wind: Learning to Love Art through the Eyes of Faith

"Vincent didn't see the world as a collection of plain, unaffected objects. He saw the unfolding drama of the human story, which to him was a heartbreaking tale."

-Russ Ramsey, Rembrandt Is in the Wind: Learning to Love Art through the Eyes of Faith

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26. Andrew Jackson and the Miracle of New Orleans: The Battle That Shaped America's Destiny

By: Brian Kilmeade

4.09

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Another pop history pageturner from the New York Times bestselling authors of George Washington's S… read more

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27. You Are Not Your Own: Belonging to God in an Inhuman World

By: Alan Noble

4.35

Format: 232 pages, Hardcover

"You are your own, and you belong to yourself." This is the fundamental assumption of modern life. … read more

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28. O Deus que destrói sonhos

By: Rodrigo Bibo

4.44

Format: 135 pages, Kindle Edition

O Deus cristão não pode ser domesticado Uma tentação constante que cerca a vida cristã é a inversão… read more

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29. The World's Last Night: And Other Essays

By: C.S. Lewis

4.21

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Available from HarperOne, now the exclusive publisher of all of C. S. Lewis’s adult religious books… read more

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"In Gethsemane the holiest of all petitioners prayed three times that a certain cup might pass from Him. It did not."

-C.S. Lewis, The World's Last Night: And Other Essays

"I fully embrace the maxim (which he borrows from a Christian) that 'all power corrupts'. I would go further. The loftier the pretensions of the power, the more meddlesome, inhuman, and oppressive it …"

-C.S. Lewis, The World's Last Night: And Other Essays

"To believe that God—at least this God—exists is to believe that you as a person now stand in the presence of God as a Person. What would, a moment before, have been variations in opinion, now become …"

-C.S. Lewis, The World's Last Night: And Other Essays

"It sets one dreaming—to interchange thoughts with beings whose thinking had an organic background wholly different from ours (other senses, other appetites), to be unenviously humbled by intellects p…"

-C.S. Lewis, The World's Last Night: And Other Essays

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30. Constant Companion: Your Practical Path to Real Interaction with God

By: Ami Loper

4.41

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

Many believers in Jesus Christ are living life against the backdrop of disenchantment. They have a … read more

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"A God-given longing must have a God-given fulfillment"

-Ami Loper, Constant Companion: Your Practical Path to Real Interaction with God

"I feel his love most strongly when I am confident in his love."

-Ami Loper, Constant Companion: Your Practical Path to Real Interaction with God

"Be willing to be a place where God can let His dreams for you grow."

-Ami Loper, Constant Companion: Your Practical Path to Real Interaction with God

"Since the moment of the Fall, God has never stopped searching us out."

-Ami Loper, Constant Companion: Your Practical Path to Real Interaction with God

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31. Até que nada mais importe

By: Luciano Pereira Subirá

4.66

Format: 151 pages, Paperback

Com certeza podemos afirmar que o nosso “grande porquê”, a razão de nossa existência, é sentirmo-no… read more

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5 must-read classics books like The World's Last Night: And Other Essays by C.S. Lewis

Transform Your Habits

The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare

Jonathan Lethem , G.K. Chesterton

2.67

Transform Your Habits

The Everlasting Man

G.K. Chesterton

4.16

Transform Your Habits

Orthodoxy

G.K. Chesterton

4.11

Transform Your Habits

Phantastes

George MacDonald

3.48

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17 Top nonfiction books like Culture Making: Recovering Our Creative Calling by Andy Crouch

Transform Your Habits

Every Good Endeavor: Connecting Your Work to God's Plan for the World

Timothy J. Keller , Katherine Leary Alsdorf

4.29

Transform Your Habits

The Divine Conspiracy: Rediscovering Our Hidden Life in God

Dallas Willard , Richard J. Foster

4.22

Transform Your Habits

You Are What You Love: The Spiritual Power of Habit

James K.A. Smith

3.63

Transform Your Habits

Surprised by Hope: Rethinking Heaven, the Resurrection, and the Mission of the Church

N.T. Wright

4.24

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