14 must-read christianity books like Raising Hell: Christianity's Most Controversial Doctrine Put Under Fire by Julie Ferwerda

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Raising Hell: Christianity's Most Controversial Doctrine Put Under Fire

By: Julie Ferwerda

4.13

Format: 308 pages, Kindle Edition

Have you ever wondered…do earthly parents love their children more than God loves us? Does God ask …

If you liked the christianity plot in Raising Hell: Christianity's Most Controversial Doctrine Put Under Fire by Julie Ferwerda , here is a list of 14 books like this:

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1. Water To Wine: Some of My Story

By: Brian Zahnd

4.43

Format: 205 pages, Kindle Edition

Why would the pastor of a large and successful church risk everything in a quest to find a richer, … read more

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2. What Is the Bible?: How an Ancient Library of Poems, Letters, and Stories Can Transform the Way You Think and Feel About Everything

By: Rob Bell

4.32

Format: 336 pages, ebook

Rob Bell, the beloved author of Love Wins and What We Talk About When We Talk About God, goes deep … read more

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  • christianity
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Cover of Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why by Bart D. Ehrman

3. Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why

By: Bart D. Ehrman

3.93

Format: 266 pages, Paperback

For almost 1,500 years, the New Testament manuscripts were copied by hand––and mistakes and intenti… read more

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4. 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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  • christian
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  • religion
  • nonfiction
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5. Lies We Believe About God

By: William Paul Young

3.77

Format: 342 pages, Hardcover

From the author of the twenty million plus copy bestselling novel The Shack and the New York Timesb… read more

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6. The Sin of Certainty: Why God Desires Our Trust More Than Our "Correct" Beliefs

By: Peter Enns

3.91

Format: 241 pages, Hardcover

The controversial evangelical Bible scholar and author of The Bible Tells Me Soexplains how Christi… read more

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7. Jesus, Interrupted: Revealing the Hidden Contradictions in the Bible & Why We Don't Know About Them

By: Bart D. Ehrman

3.95

Format: 315 pages, Hardcover

Picking up where Bible expert Bart Ehrman's New York Timesbestseller Misquoting Jesusleft off, Jesu… read more

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8. The Gospel of Inclusion: Reaching Beyond Religious Fundamentalism to the True Love of God

By: None

4.60

Format: 645 pages,

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9. Sinners in the Hands of a Loving God: The Scandalous Truth of the Very Good News

By: Brian Zahnd

3.78

Format: None pages, Paperback

Does God's Wrath Define Christianity? Or Does God's Love? In his famous sermon -Sinners in the Hand… read more

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10. Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church

By: Rachel Held Evans

3.44

Format: 406 pages, Paperback

New York Timesbestselling author Rachel Held Evans embarks on a quest to find out what it really me… read more

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11. Inspired: Slaying Giants, Walking on Water, and Loving the Bible Again

By: Rachel Held Evans

4.39

Format: 236 pages, Paperback

 One Woman’s Journey Back to Loving the Bible If the Bible isn’t a science book or an instructio… read more

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"How could I love God with all my heart, soul, mind, and strength while disengaging those very faculties every time I read the Bible?"

-Rachel Held Evans, Inspired: Slaying Giants, Walking on Water, and Loving the Bible Again

"The point is, if you pay attention to the women, a more complex history of Israel's conquests emerges. Their stories invite the reader to consider the human cost of violence and patriarchy, and in th…"

-Rachel Held Evans, Inspired: Slaying Giants, Walking on Water, and Loving the Bible Again

"In other words, the prophets are weirdos. More than anyone else in Scripture, they remind us that those odd ducks shouting from the margins of society may see things more clearly than the political a…"

-Rachel Held Evans, Inspired: Slaying Giants, Walking on Water, and Loving the Bible Again

"What I love about the Bible is that the story isn't over. There are still prophets in our midst. There are still dragons and beasts. It might not look like it, but the Resistance is winning. The ligh…"

-Rachel Held Evans, Inspired: Slaying Giants, Walking on Water, and Loving the Bible Again

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12. Wholehearted Faith

By: Rachel Held Evans

4.42

Format: 196 pages, Hardcover

A new collection of original writings by Rachel Held Evans, whose reflections on faith and life con… read more

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"Many of us have found a renewed sense of possibility when we've realized how much of God's beauty remains to be explored — and that the life of faith is also a life of holy curiosity."

-Rachel Held Evans, Wholehearted Faith

"It is nearly impossible to believe: God shrinking down to the size of a zygote, implanted in the soft lining of a woman’s womb. God growing fingers and toes. God kicking and hiccupping in utero. God …"

-Rachel Held Evans, Wholehearted Faith

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13. 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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14. The Woman They Wanted: Shattering the Illusion of the Good Christian Wife

By: Shannon Harris

3.77

Format: 244 pages, Hardcover

"No one is coming to rescue me. I am going to have to rescue me." As a twenty-three-year-old sin… read more

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"But the truth was that church was making me ill. Even the loveliest church in the world couldn't make up for the fact that I had had too much church. My body was rejecting Bible verses with the stren…"

-Shannon Harris, The Woman They Wanted: Shattering the Illusion of the Good Christian Wife

"...the hypocrisy of it all was too much to take. To have heard the words 'forgiveness' and 'grace' in hundreds of sermons, thousands of prayers, in every quote, every song, at every meeting and then …"

-Shannon Harris, The Woman They Wanted: Shattering the Illusion of the Good Christian Wife

"Religion carries with it great potential for good and for harm. It's humans that make it more complicated (and more certain) and heavier than it needs to be. Religion shouldn't be something heavy we …"

-Shannon Harris, The Woman They Wanted: Shattering the Illusion of the Good Christian Wife

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15. The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church

By: Sarah McCammon

4.21

Format: 310 pages, Hardcover

The first definitive book that names the massive social movement of people leaving the white evange… read more

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16. Curveball: When Your Faith Takes Turns You Never Saw Coming (or How I Stumbled and Tripped My Way to Finding a Bigger God)

By: Peter Enns

4.36

Format: 239 pages, Kindle Edition

“Peter Enns is brilliant at taking the big topics, those Christian ideas that usually scare us or i… read more

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"Does the God of Abraham look lovingly upon ancient cave drawings and temples dedicated to the only gods ancient humans could have known?"

-Peter Enns, Curveball: When Your Faith Takes Turns You Never Saw Coming (or How I Stumbled and Tripped My Way to Finding a Bigger God)

"Like a frail plant that needs careful tending and constant protection from sun and wind, perhaps the real problem wasn’t me but the fragile, unsustainable version of Christianity I had been told was …"

-Peter Enns, Curveball: When Your Faith Takes Turns You Never Saw Coming (or How I Stumbled and Tripped My Way to Finding a Bigger God)

"Placeholder theology is the very nature of theology. By it we acknowledge the human need to say something about ultimate meaning concerning the Creator and the creation while also understanding that …"

-Peter Enns, Curveball: When Your Faith Takes Turns You Never Saw Coming (or How I Stumbled and Tripped My Way to Finding a Bigger God)

"A God who does not connect to the world around us is a God who cannot speak to us. Believing in a God who demands that we continue to adopt only biblically ancient ways of thinking of God, which are …"

-Peter Enns, Curveball: When Your Faith Takes Turns You Never Saw Coming (or How I Stumbled and Tripped My Way to Finding a Bigger God)

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17. Mary Magdalene Revealed: The First Apostle, Her Feminist Gospel & the Christianity We Haven't Tried Yet

By: Meggan Watterson

4.25

Format: 264 pages, Hardcover

--WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER-- The Gospel of Mary Magdalene reveals a very different love story… read more

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18. Raising Hell: Christianity's Most Controversial Doctrine Put Under Fire

By: Julie Ferwerda

4.13

Format: 308 pages, Kindle Edition

Have you ever wondered…do earthly parents love their children more than God loves us? Does God ask … read more

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Cover of Postcards from Babylon: The Church In American Exile by Brian Zahnd

19. Postcards from Babylon: The Church In American Exile

By: Brian Zahnd

4.51

Format: 178 pages, Kindle Edition

The original gospel proclamation that the Lord of the nations was a crucified Galilean raised from … read more

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Cover of Against Preterism: End of Debate (Answering Preterism: A Preterist and Christian Guide Book 3) by Roderick Edwards

20. Against Preterism: End of Debate (Answering Preterism: A Preterist and Christian Guide Book 3)

By: Roderick Edwards

3.67

Format: 94 pages, Kindle Edition

AGAINST END OF DEBATE is the book you want to read if you are serious about understanding all the … read more

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21. How a 25-Year-Old Learned He Wasn't the Only One Going to Heaven

By: Daniel Rogers

4.69

Format: 191 pages, Kindle Edition

Preface 1 in 4000 No, I have never thought that I was literally the only one going to heaven, but… read more

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Water To Wine: Some of My Story

Brian Zahnd

4.43

Transform Your Habits

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Rob Bell

4.32

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Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why

Bart D. Ehrman

3.93

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

Joe Barrett , Peter Enns

3.63

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

Timothy J. Keller

4.35

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Surprised by Scripture: Engaging Contemporary Issues

N.T. Wright

4.13

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Rob Bell

4.32

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Peter Scazzero

3.65

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