24 must-read nonfiction books like Eusebius: The Church History by Paul L. Maier

Cover of Eusebius: The Church History by Paul L. Maier

Eusebius: The Church History

By: Paul L. Maier

4.25

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Next to Josephus, Eusebius is the most widely-consulted reference work on the early church. Much of…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Eusebius: The Church History by Paul L. Maier , here is a list of 24 books like this:

Cover of Church History in Plain Language by Bruce L. Shelley, Mark A. Noll

1. Church History in Plain Language

By: Bruce L. Shelley , Mark A. Noll

4.10

Format: 520 pages, Paperback

It's about time that someone wrote church history that tells about people, not just about "eras" an… read more

Similar categories in Bruce L. Shelley's Church History in Plain Language book and Paul L. Maier's Eusebius: The Church History

  • christian
  • history
  • church history
  • theology
  • christianity
  • religion
  • nonfiction
"Christianity is the only major religion to have at its central event the humiliation of its God."

-Bruce L. Shelley, Church History in Plain Language

"If we see some admirable work of human art, we are at once eager to investigate the nature, the manner, the end of its production; and the contemplation of the works of God stirs us with an incompara…"

-Bruce L. Shelley, Church History in Plain Language

"Church historians often ask, ‘Is the church a movement or an institution?' . . . I think it is both. . . . I believe the people of God in history live in a tension between an ideal--the universal com…"

-Bruce L. Shelley, Church History in Plain Language

Cover of The Cost of Discipleship by Dietrich Bonhoeffer

2. 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

Similar categories in Dietrich Bonhoeffer's The Cost of Discipleship book and Paul L. Maier's Eusebius: The Church History

  • classics
  • christian
  • theology
  • christianity
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
"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

Cover of The Everlasting Man by G.K. Chesterton

3. 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

Similar categories in G.K. Chesterton's The Everlasting Man book and Paul L. Maier's Eusebius: The Church History

  • classics
  • history
  • christian
  • theology
  • christianity
  • religion
  • nonfiction
"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

Cover of Consequences of Ideas by R.C. Sproul

4. Consequences of Ideas

By: R.C. Sproul

4.33

Format: None pages, Hardcover

If you think philosophy is irrelevant to your daily life, think again. You need only observe the wo… read more

Similar categories in R.C. Sproul's Consequences of Ideas book and Paul L. Maier's Eusebius: The Church History

  • christian
  • history
  • theology
  • christianity
  • religion
  • nonfiction
Cover of Conscience: What It Is, How to Train It, and Loving Those Who Differ by Andrew David Naselli, J.D. Crowley

5. Conscience: What It Is, How to Train It, and Loving Those Who Differ

By: Andrew David Naselli , J.D. Crowley

4.11

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Christian, meet your conscience. What do you do when you disagree with other Christians? How do you… read more

Similar categories in Andrew David Naselli's Conscience: What It Is, How to Train It, and Loving Those Who Differ book and Paul L. Maier's Eusebius: The Church History

  • christianity
  • christian
  • nonfiction
  • theology
Cover of The Last Lion 3: Winston Spencer Churchill: Defender of the Realm, 1940-1965 (The Last Lion, #3) by William Manchester, Paul   Reid

6. The Last Lion 3: Winston Spencer Churchill: Defender of the Realm, 1940-1965 (The Last Lion, #3)

By: William Manchester , Paul Reid

3.00

Format: 76 pages, Hardcover

Spanning the years of 1940-1965, The Last Lionpicks up shortly after Winston Churchill became Prime… read more

Similar categories in William Manchester's The Last Lion 3: Winston Spencer Churchill: Defender of the Realm, 1940-1965 (The Last Lion, #3) book and Paul L. Maier's Eusebius: The Church History

  • nonfiction
  • history

7. The Consolation of Philosophy

By: Boethius , None

4.27

Format: 24 pages, Paperback

Boethius was an eminent public figure under the Gothic emperor Theodoric, and an exceptional Greek … read more

Similar categories in Boethius's The Consolation of Philosophy book and Paul L. Maier's Eusebius: The Church History

  • classics
  • history
  • theology
  • religion
  • nonfiction
Cover of Till We Have Faces by C.S. Lewis

8. Till We Have Faces

By: C.S. Lewis

4.08

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

In this timeless tale of two mortal princesses- one beautiful and one unattractive- C.S. Lewis rewo… read more

Similar categories in C.S. Lewis's Till We Have Faces book and Paul L. Maier's Eusebius: The Church History

  • religion
  • christian
  • classics
Cover of Confessions by Augustine of Hippo, Henry Chadwick, Albert Cook Outler

9. Confessions

By: Augustine of Hippo , Henry Chadwick , Albert Cook Outler

3.41

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Augustine's Confessions is one of the most influential and most innovative works of Latin literatur… read more

Similar categories in Augustine of Hippo's Confessions book and Paul L. Maier's Eusebius: The Church History

  • classics
  • christian
  • theology
  • religion
  • nonfiction
Cover of Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community by Dietrich Bonhoeffer

10. 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

Similar categories in Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community book and Paul L. Maier's Eusebius: The Church History

  • classics
  • christian
  • theology
  • christianity
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
"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

Cover of The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Visions of Glory 1874-1932 by William Manchester

11. The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Visions of Glory 1874-1932

By: William Manchester

3.44

Format: 48 pages, Paperback

s/t: Winston Spencer Churchill: Visions of Glory 1874-1932 When Winston Spencer Churchill was born … read more

Similar categories in William Manchester's The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Visions of Glory 1874-1932 book and Paul L. Maier's Eusebius: The Church History

  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of The Weight of Glory by C.S. Lewis

12. The Weight of Glory

By: C.S. Lewis

4.38

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

The classic Weight of Glory by C.S. Lewis, the most important Christian writer of the 20th century,… read more

Similar categories in C.S. Lewis's The Weight of Glory book and Paul L. Maier's Eusebius: The Church History

  • classics
  • christian
  • theology
  • christianity
  • religion
  • nonfiction
"He who has God and everything else has no more than he who has God only."

-C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory

"Never, in peace or war, commit your virtue or your happiness to the future."

-C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory

"Have courage, dear heart, for there is nothing to be afraid of and never has been."

-C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory

"Next to the Blessed Sacrament itself, your neighbor is the holiest object presented to your senses."

-C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory

Cover of The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment by Jeremiah Burroughs

13. The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment

By: Jeremiah Burroughs

4.33

Format: 232 pages, Paperback

Jeremiah Burroughs is worthily reckoned as belonging to the front rank of English puritan preachers… read more

Similar categories in Jeremiah Burroughs's The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment book and Paul L. Maier's Eusebius: The Church History

  • classics
  • christian
  • theology
  • christianity
  • religion
  • nonfiction
"So be satisfied and quiet, be contented with your contentment. I lack certain things that others have, but blessed be God, I have a contented heart which others have not."

-Jeremiah Burroughs, The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment

"Christian, how did you enjoy comfort before? Was the creature anything to you but a conduit, a pipe, that conveyed God's goodness to you? 'The pipe is cut off,' says God, 'come to me, the fountain, a…"

-Jeremiah Burroughs, The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment

"In a clock, stop but one wheel and you stop every wheel, because they are dependent upon one other. So when God has ordered a thing for the present to be thus and thus, how do you know how many thing…"

-Jeremiah Burroughs, The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment

Cover of Reflections on the Psalms by C.S. Lewis

14. Reflections on the Psalms

By: C.S. Lewis

3.75

Format: None pages, Paperback

Lewis writes here about the difficulties he has met or the joys he has gained in reading the Psalms… read more

Similar categories in C.S. Lewis's Reflections on the Psalms book and Paul L. Maier's Eusebius: The Church History

  • christian
  • theology
  • christianity
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality

15. Discipling: How to Help Others Follow Jesus

By: Mark Dever

3.33

Format: 161 pages, Hardcover

Before ascending to heaven, Jesus instructed his followers to "make disciples of all nations." But … read more

Similar categories in Mark Dever's Discipling: How to Help Others Follow Jesus book and Paul L. Maier's Eusebius: The Church History

16. 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

Similar categories in C.S. Lewis's On the Incarnation book and Paul L. Maier's Eusebius: The Church History

17. Area 51: An Uncensored History of America's Top Secret Military Base

By: Annie Jacobsen

4.21

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Area 51 is the most famous military installation in the world--& it doesn't exist. Located 75 miles… read more

Similar categories in Annie Jacobsen's Area 51: An Uncensored History of America's Top Secret Military Base book and Paul L. Maier's Eusebius: The Church History

18. Church History 101: The Highlights of Twenty Centuries

By: Joel R. Beeke , Sinclair B. Ferguson , Michael A.G. Azad Haykin

3.79

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Church history is important because it shows us how God's faithful dealings with His people in the … read more

Similar categories in Joel R. Beeke's Church History 101: The Highlights of Twenty Centuries book and Paul L. Maier's Eusebius: The Church History

19. The Explicit Gospel

By: Jared C. Wilson , Matt Chandler

3.37

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Too few people attending church today, even those in evangelical churches, are exposed to the gospe… read more

Similar categories in Jared C. Wilson's The Explicit Gospel book and Paul L. Maier's Eusebius: The Church History

20. The Rule of Saint Benedict

By: Benedict of Nursia , None

3.22

Format: 111 pages, Paperback

Composed nearly fifteen hundred years ago by the father of Western monasticism, The Rule of St. Ben… read more

Similar categories in Benedict of Nursia's The Rule of Saint Benedict book and Paul L. Maier's Eusebius: The Church History

Cover of Timothy Keller: His Spiritual and Intellectual Formation by Collin Hansen

21. Timothy Keller: His Spiritual and Intellectual Formation

By: Collin Hansen

4.56

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Timothy Keller takes readers behind the scenes to meet the people and understand the events that fo… read more

Similar categories in Collin Hansen's Timothy Keller: His Spiritual and Intellectual Formation book and Paul L. Maier's Eusebius: The Church History

  • christianity
  • christian
  • nonfiction
  • theology
Cover of The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self: Cultural Amnesia, Expressive Individualism, and the Road to Sexual Revolution by Carl R. Trueman

22. 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

Similar categories in Carl R. Trueman's The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self: Cultural Amnesia, Expressive Individualism, and the Road to Sexual Revolution book and Paul L. Maier's Eusebius: The Church History

  • christian
  • history
  • theology
  • christianity
  • religion
  • nonfiction
"[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

Cover of Remaking the World: How 1776 Created the Post-Christian West by Andrew         Wilson

23. 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

Similar categories in Andrew Wilson's Remaking the World: How 1776 Created the Post-Christian West book and Paul L. Maier's Eusebius: The Church History

  • christian
  • history
  • church history
  • theology
  • christianity
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Problem of Pain by C.S. Lewis

24. The Problem of Pain

By: C.S. Lewis

4.13

Format: 162 pages, Paperback

For centuries people have been tormented by one question above all: If God is good and all-powerful… read more

Similar categories in C.S. Lewis's The Problem of Pain book and Paul L. Maier's Eusebius: The Church History

  • classics
  • christian
  • theology
  • christianity
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
"Man is to be understood only in his relation to God."

-C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain

"Nonsense remains nonsense even when we talk it about God."

-C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain

"Even if there were pains in Heaven, all who understand would desire them."

-C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain

"Now God, who has made us, knows what we are and that our happiness lies in Him."

-C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain

Cover of Biblical Critical Theory: How the Bible's Unfolding Story Makes Sense of Modern Life and Culture by Christopher Watkin

25. 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

Similar categories in Christopher Watkin's Biblical Critical Theory: How the Bible's Unfolding Story Makes Sense of Modern Life and Culture book and Paul L. Maier's Eusebius: The Church History

  • christian
  • theology
  • christianity
  • religion
  • nonfiction
Cover of A Little Book on the Christian Life by John Calvin

26. A Little Book on the Christian Life

By: John Calvin

4.54

Format: 126 pages, Paperback

For centuries, Christians of all ages have turned to John Calvin’s A Little Book on the Christian L… read more

Similar categories in John Calvin's A Little Book on the Christian Life book and Paul L. Maier's Eusebius: The Church History

  • classics
  • christian
  • theology
  • christianity
  • religion
  • nonfiction
"If everything went according to their own plans, they would never know what it means to follow God."

-John Calvin, A Little Book on the Christian Life

"...We should always look to the Lord, that by His care we might be led to whatever lot in life He provides for us."

-John Calvin, A Little Book on the Christian Life

"Desire is bridled when we acknowledge that all thing given to us are given in order that we might know their author."

-John Calvin, A Little Book on the Christian Life

"So it will be that no matter what kind of cross is placed upon us, we will steadily maintain endurance even through the narrowest straits of the soul."

-John Calvin, A Little Book on the Christian Life

Cover of Masculine Christianity by Zachary M. Garris

27. Masculine Christianity

By: Zachary M. Garris

4.43

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

The Western church has gone feminist. God has given men authority in the home, church, and society.… read more

Similar categories in Zachary M. Garris's Masculine Christianity book and Paul L. Maier's Eusebius: The Church History

  • christianity
  • nonfiction
  • theology
Cover of Eusebius: The Church History by Paul L. Maier

28. Eusebius: The Church History

By: Paul L. Maier

4.25

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Next to Josephus, Eusebius is the most widely-consulted reference work on the early church. Much of… read more

Similar categories in Paul L. Maier's Eusebius: The Church History book and Paul L. Maier's Eusebius: The Church History

  • classics
  • history
  • christian
  • church history
  • theology
  • christianity
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
Cover of Prayer: How Praying Together Shapes the Church (9marks: Building Healthy Churches) by John Onwuchekwa

29. Prayer: How Praying Together Shapes the Church (9marks: Building Healthy Churches)

By: John Onwuchekwa

4.41

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

Prayer is as necessary to the Christian as breathing is to the human body--but it often doesn't com… read more

Similar categories in John Onwuchekwa's Prayer: How Praying Together Shapes the Church (9marks: Building Healthy Churches) book and Paul L. Maier's Eusebius: The Church History

  • christianity
  • christian
  • nonfiction
  • theology
Cover of Jesus Behaving Badly: The Puzzling Paradoxes of the Man from Galilee by Mark L. Strauss

30. Jesus Behaving Badly: The Puzzling Paradoxes of the Man from Galilee

By: Mark L. Strauss

3.95

Format: None pages, Audio CD

Everybody likes Jesus. Don't they? We overlook that Jesus was Judgmental?preaching hellfire far mor… read more

Similar categories in Mark L. Strauss's Jesus Behaving Badly: The Puzzling Paradoxes of the Man from Galilee book and Paul L. Maier's Eusebius: The Church History

  • christian
  • theology
  • christianity
  • religion
  • nonfiction

11 must-read classics books like Eusebius: The Church History by Paul L. Maier

Transform Your Habits

The Cost of Discipleship

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

4.30

Transform Your Habits

The Everlasting Man

G.K. Chesterton

4.16

The Consolation of Philosophy

Boethius , None

4.27

Transform Your Habits

Till We Have Faces

C.S. Lewis

4.08

View all the books

8 best-selling classics books like A Little Book on the Christian Life by John Calvin

Transform Your Habits

Christianity and Liberalism

J. Gresham Machen

4.33

Transform Your Habits

The Bondage of the Will

J.I. Packer , Martin Luther , O.R. Johnston

3.91

Transform Your Habits

The Expulsive Power of a New Affection

Thomas Chalmers

3.00

Transform Your Habits

The Valley of Vision: A Collection of Puritan Prayers and Devotions

None , Arthur Bennett

4.53

View all the books

Never miss a story from us, get weekly updates in your inbox.