Christian Women in the Patristic World: Their Influence, Authority, and Legacy in the Second through Fifth Centuries
By: Lynn H. Cohick
4.24
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
From facing wild beasts in the arena to governing the Roman Empire, Christian women--as preachers a…
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1. Hannah Coulter
By: Wendell Berry
4.38
Format: 190 pages, Paperback
Hannah Coulter is Wendell Berry's seventh novel and his first to employ the voice of a woman charac… read more
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"Time doesn't stop. Your life doesn't stop and wait until you get ready to start living it."-Wendell Berry, Hannah Coulter
"And so I learned about grief, and about the absence and emptiness that for a long time make grief unforgettable."-Wendell Berry, Hannah Coulter
"Living right on called for nothing out of the ordinary. We made no changes. We only accepted the changes as they came."-Wendell Berry, Hannah Coulter
"Grandmam came back from that distance in time that separates grandmothers from their grandchildren and made herself a mother to me."-Wendell Berry, Hannah Coulter
2. Whose Religion Is Christianity? The Gospel Beyond the West
By: Lamin Sanneh
3.65
Format: 150 pages, Paperback
Many historians of religion now recognize that Christianity is a global faith whose most vibrant ex… read more
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3. Christian Theology: An Introduction
By: Alister E. McGrath
3.73
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Alister McGrath's internationally-acclaimed Christian Theology: An Introductionis one of the most w… read more
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4. The Christian Theology Reader
By: Alister E. McGrath
3.73
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
The most comprehensive book of its kind, the new edition of the Christian Theology Readercollects m… read more
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5. How to Read the Bible for All Its Worth
By: Douglas K. Stuart , Gordon D. Fee
4.23
Format: None pages, Paperback
Your Guide to Understanding the Bible Understanding the Bible isn't for the few, the gifted, the sc… read more
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6. 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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7. Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life
By: J.I. Packer , Donald S. Whitney , Rita J. Platt
4.28
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Drawn from a rich heritage, "Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life" will guide you through a… read more
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"Discipline without direction is drudgery."-J.I. Packer, Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life
"If people threw away their money as thoughtlessly as they throw away their time, we would think them insane. Yet time is infinitely more precious than money because money can’t buy time."-J.I. Packer, Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life
"The end —that is, the purpose of practicing the Disciplines —is godliness. I define godliness as both closeness to Christ and conformity to Christ, a conformity that’s both inward and outward, a grow…"-J.I. Packer, Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life
8. J.R.R. Tolkien: A Biography
By: Humphrey Carpenter
3.94
Format: 456 pages, Paperback
The authorized biography of the creator of Middle-earth. In the decades since his death in Septembe… read more
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9. 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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10. On the Cosmic Mystery of Jesus Christ: Selected Writings
By: Robert L. Wilken , Maximus the Confessor , Paul M. Blowers
4.12
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
St Maximus' two main collections of theological reflections-his Ambigua (or "Difficulties") and his… read more
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11. Theology in the Context of World Christianity: How the Global Church Is Influencing the Way We Think about and Discuss Theology
By: Timothy C. Tennent
4.33
Format: None pages, Hardcover
It's no secret that the center of Christianity has shifted from the West to the global South and Ea… read more
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12. The Story of Christianity: Volume 2: The Reformation to the Present Day
By: Justo L. González
4.29
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
This highly informative, narrative history covers the events, persons, external influences, and for… read more
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13. Gay Girl, Good God: The Story of Who I Was and Who God Has Always Been
By: Jackie Hill Perry
4.36
Format: 193 pages, Paperback
"I used to be a lesbian." In Gay Girl, Good God, author Jackie Hill Perry shares her own story, … read more
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"Do you know why we have a hard time believing that a gay girl can become a completely different creature? Because, we have a hard time believing in God. ..."-Jackie Hill Perry, Gay Girl, Good God: The Story of Who I Was and Who God Has Always Been
"From the outside looking in, it could be assumed that Preston's and my relationship was God's proof of turning a "gay girl good." But really, He'd already done that the moment He'd set me free from s…"-Jackie Hill Perry, Gay Girl, Good God: The Story of Who I Was and Who God Has Always Been
"Trying to contain the small giggle welling up in her chest from the sincerity of my question, Santoria, full of confidence, responded while looking toward my direction, "Yes, Jackie.The gospel didn't…"-Jackie Hill Perry, Gay Girl, Good God: The Story of Who I Was and Who God Has Always Been
"LGBT culture has done an excellent job of renewing or should I say, destroying, the mind of many, mainly by consistently using words as their greatest tool in their efforts to draw people into findin…"-Jackie Hill Perry, Gay Girl, Good God: The Story of Who I Was and Who God Has Always Been
14. Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation
By: Kristin Kobes Du Mez
4.30
Format: 356 pages, Hardcover
A scholar of American Christianity presents a seventy-five-year history of evangelicalism that iden… read more
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15. All My Knotted-Up Life: A Memoir
By: Beth Moore
4.47
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
New York Times, Publishers Weekly, and Wall Street Journal bestseller! An incredibly thoughtful,… read more
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"Once you've broken to pieces, the luxury of imagining yourself unbreakable evaporates."-Beth Moore, All My Knotted-Up Life: A Memoir
"You want to know how to love me? Love my children. You want to be good to me? Be good to my children."-Beth Moore, All My Knotted-Up Life: A Memoir
"A teenager doesn't know she's still a child. A teenager feels like an adult, I suppose primarily because her outside, her flesh and her face, her body, her size, her width and height, look like - and…"-Beth Moore, All My Knotted-Up Life: A Memoir
16. Christian Women in the Patristic World: Their Influence, Authority, and Legacy in the Second through Fifth Centuries
By: Lynn H. Cohick
4.24
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
From facing wild beasts in the arena to governing the Roman Empire, Christian women--as preachers a… read more
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- womens
17. Readings in World Christian History: Volume 1: Earliest Christianity to 1453
By: John W. Coakley
3.88
Format: 435 pages, Paperback
Through the advice of many scholars of Christian origins the selections here include texts that sho… read more
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18. 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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- history
"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
19. A History of the Church in the Middle Ages
By: F. Donald Logan
3.69
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
In this fascinating survey, F. Donald Logan introduces the reader to the Christian church, from the… read more
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20. "He Descended to the Dead": An Evangelical Theology of Holy Saturday
By: Matthew Y. Emerson
4.39
Format: 252 pages, Paperback
"I believe he descended to the dead." The descent of Jesus Christ to the dead has been a fundamenta… read more
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21. The Global Church---The First Eight Centuries: From Pentecost through the Rise of Islam
By: Donald Fairbairn
4.42
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Discover the Variety and Unity of the Early Church The Christian church of the early centuries spre… read more
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