23 must-read theology books like Four Views on Heaven (Counterpoints: Bible and Theology) by Michael E. Wittmer

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Four Views on Heaven (Counterpoints: Bible and Theology)

By: Michael E. Wittmer

3.75

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Discover and understand the different Christian views of what heaven will be like. Christians f…

If you liked the theology plot in Four Views on Heaven (Counterpoints: Bible and Theology) by Michael E. Wittmer , here is a list of 23 books like this:

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1. A Case for Amillennialism: Understanding the End Times

By: Kim Riddlebarger

4.30

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Amillennialism, dispensational premillennialism, historic premillennialism, postmillennialism, pret… read more

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  • christianity
  • nonfiction
  • theology
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2. Scripture and the Authority of God: How to Read the Bible Today

By: N.T. Wright

4.05

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

In Scripture and the Authority of God: How to Read the Bible Today, Widely respected Bible and Jesu… read more

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"Traditions tell us where we have come from. Scripture itself is a better guide as to where we should now be going."

-N.T. Wright, Scripture and the Authority of God: How to Read the Bible Today

"The "word" did not "offer itself" in a take-it-or-leave-it fashion, any more than Caesar's heralds would have said, "If you'd like a new kind of imperial experience, you might like to try giving alle…"

-N.T. Wright, Scripture and the Authority of God: How to Read the Bible Today

"Many in the church have turned their back on serious study, and have embraced an anti-intellectualism which refuses to learn anything from scholarship at all lest it corrupt their pure faith. It is t…"

-N.T. Wright, Scripture and the Authority of God: How to Read the Bible Today

"The gospel by which individuals come to personal faith, and so to that radical transformation of life spoken of so often in the new Testament, is the personalizing of the larger challenge just mentio…"

-N.T. Wright, Scripture and the Authority of God: How to Read the Bible Today

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3. 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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  • christianity
  • nonfiction
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  • theology
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4. Just Do Something: A Liberating Approach to Finding God's Will

By: Kevin DeYoung

4.24

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

A Liberating Approach to Finding God's Will or How to Make a Decision Without Dreams, Visions, Flee… read more

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"We're not consistent. We're not stable. We don't stick with anything. Most of the time we can't even make decisions."

-Kevin DeYoung, Just Do Something: A Liberating Approach to Finding God's Will

"If you think God has promised this world will be a five-star hotel, you will be miserable as you live through the normal struggles of life. But if you remember that God promised we would be pilgrims …"

-Kevin DeYoung, Just Do Something: A Liberating Approach to Finding God's Will

"My fear is that of all the choices people face today, the one they rarely consider is, "How can I serve most effectively and fruitfully in the local church?" I wonder if the abundance of opportunitie…"

-Kevin DeYoung, Just Do Something: A Liberating Approach to Finding God's Will

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5. 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

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6. The Mission of God's People: A Biblical Theology of the Church's Mission

By: Christopher J.H. Wright , Jonathan Lunde

3.56

Format: None pages, Paperback

Chris Wright's pioneering 2006 book, The Mission of God, revealed that the typical Christian unders… read more

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  • nonfiction
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7. Surprised by Hope: Rethinking Heaven, the Resurrection, and the Mission of the Church

By: N.T. Wright

4.24

Format: 212 pages, Hardcover

In Surprised by Hope: Rethinking Heaven, the Resurrection, and the Mission of the Church, top-selli… read more

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8. The Emotionally Healthy Leader: How Transforming Your Inner Life Will Deeply Transform Your Church, Team, and the World

By: Peter Scazzero

3.72

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Do you feel too overwhelmed to enjoy life, unable to sort out the demands on your time? Are you doi… read more

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9. 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

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10. Reversing Hermon: Enoch, the Watchers, and the Forgotten Mission of Jesus Christ

By: Michael S. Heiser

3.14

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Reversing Hermonis a groundbreaking work. It unveils what most in the modern Church have never hear… read more

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11. Care of Mind/Care of Spirit: A Psychiatrist Explores Spirtual Direction

By: Gerald G. May

3.71

Format: 435 pages, Paperback

Although secular psychology addressed a great deal about how we come to be the way we are and how w… read more

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12. Understanding Four Views on Baptism

By: Thomas J. Nettles , None , Robert Kolb , John H. Armstrong , None , None

3.07

Format: None pages, Paperback

What is the significance of water baptism? Who should be baptized? Is infant baptism scriptural? Wh… read more

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13. The Bible Made Impossible: Why Biblicism Is Not a Truly Evangelical Reading of Scripture

By: Christian Smith

4.14

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Biblicism, an approach to the Bible common among some American evangelicals, emphasizes together th… read more

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14. Dominion and Dynasty: A Theology of the Hebrew Bible

By: Stephen G. Dempster

3.95

Format: 253 pages, Paperback

In this stimulating New Studies in Biblical Theology volume, Stephen G. Dempster argues that, despi… read more

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15. 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

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  • christianity
  • nonfiction
  • theology
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16. 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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  • nonfiction
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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

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17. Jesus and the Powers: Christian Political Witness in an Age of Totalitarian Terror and Dysfunctional Democracies

By: N.T. Wright

4.14

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Should Christians be politically withdrawn, avoiding participation in politics to maintain their pr… read more

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18. Tell Her Story: How Women Led, Taught, and Ministered in the Early Church

By: Nijay K. Gupta

4.35

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Women were there. For centuries, discussions of early Christianity have focused on male leaders in … read more

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19. Covenantal and Dispensational Theologies: Four Views on the Continuity of Scripture

By: Brent E. Parker

4.28

Format: 266 pages, Paperback

"How do the Old and New Testaments relate to each other? What is the relationship among the biblica… read more

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20. 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

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21. Four Views on Heaven (Counterpoints: Bible and Theology)

By: Michael E. Wittmer

3.75

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Discover and understand the different Christian views of what heaven will be like. Christians f… read more

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22. Breaking Bread with the Dead: A Reader's Guide to a More Tranquil Mind

By: Alan Jacobs

3.92

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

From the author of How to Think and The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction, a literary g… read more

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"When we look to the past ... what we are always looking for is whatever "is better than we are" ... The future cannot teach us because we are the ones who must imagine it."

-Alan Jacobs, Breaking Bread with the Dead: A Reader's Guide to a More Tranquil Mind

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23. The Lost World of the Prophets: Old Testament Prophecy and Apocalyptic Literature in Ancient Context (The Lost World Series)

By: John H. Walton

4.24

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Being responsive to God is at the heart of prophecy. But readers of ancient prophecies and apocalyp… read more

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  • nonfiction
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24. The Lost World of the Torah: Law as Covenant and Wisdom in Ancient Context

By: John H. Walton

3.98

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Our handling of what we call biblical law veers between controversy and neglect. On the one han… read more

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25. Nobody's Mother: Artemis of the Ephesians in Antiquity and the New Testament

By: Sandra L. Glahn

4.49

Format: 190 pages, Paperback

Some Christians think Paul's reference to "saved through childbearing" in 1 Timothy 2:15 means that… read more

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26. 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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Cover of Christianity and Critical Race Theory: A Faithful and Constructive Conversation by Robert Chao Romero

27. Christianity and Critical Race Theory: A Faithful and Constructive Conversation

By: Robert Chao Romero

4.24

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

"People interested in critical race theory and Christians concerned about faith integration and soc… read more

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28. Five Views of Christ in the Old Testament: Genre, Authorial Intent, and the Nature of Scripture (Counterpoints: Bible and Theology)

By: Brian J. Tabb

4.11

Format: 322 pages, Paperback

The authors of the New Testament regularly quote and allude to Old Testament passages that point to… read more

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Cover of Ethics beyond Rules: How Christ’s Call to Love Informs Our Moral Choices by Keith D. Stanglin

29. Ethics beyond Rules: How Christ’s Call to Love Informs Our Moral Choices

By: Keith D. Stanglin

3.83

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

An introduction to ethics that will help Christians rediscover a moral reasoning rooted in Scriptur… read more

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Cover of What It Means to Be Protestant: The Case for an Always-Reforming Church by Gavin Ortlund

30. What It Means to Be Protestant: The Case for an Always-Reforming Church

By: Gavin Ortlund

4.66

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

These days many evangelicals are exploring the more sacramental, liturgical, and historically-consc… read more

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31. The Justice and Goodness of God: A Biblical Case for the Final Judgment

By: Thomas R. Schreiner

4.24

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Understanding God’s Righteousness through His Final Judgment of Sin The reality of God’s ultimate … read more

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19 must-read nonfiction books like Four Views on Heaven (Counterpoints: Bible and Theology) by Michael E. Wittmer

Transform Your Habits

A Case for Amillennialism: Understanding the End Times

Kim Riddlebarger

4.30

Transform Your Habits

Scripture and the Authority of God: How to Read the Bible Today

N.T. Wright

4.05

Transform Your Habits

The Bible Tells Me So: Why Defending Scripture Has Made Us Unable to Read It

Joe Barrett , Peter Enns

3.63

Transform Your Habits

Just Do Something: A Liberating Approach to Finding God's Will

Kevin DeYoung

4.24

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Reformed Dogmatics Volume 2: God and Creation

John Bolt , Herman Bavinck , John Vriend

4.69

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Systematic Theology: An Introduction to Biblical Doctrine

Wayne Grudem

2.67

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Christianity and Liberalism

J. Gresham Machen

4.33

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2000 Years of Christ's Power Volume 1: The Age of the Early Church Fathers: Part 1

Nick R. Needham

4.12

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