12 best-selling theology books like Undone: A Modern Rendering of John Donne's Devotions by Philip Yancey

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Undone: A Modern Rendering of John Donne's Devotions

By: Philip Yancey

4.44

Format: 145 pages, Paperback

As the world entered the long night of 2020, Philip Yancey turned to John Donne's Devotions, a near…

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1. The Scent of Water

By: Elizabeth Goudge

4.16

Format: 285 pages, Hardcover

Mary Lindsay met her little niece and namesake only once, but she saw in the quiet, imaginative chi… read more

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  • classics
  • christian
"Understanding is a creative act in a dimension we do not see."

-Elizabeth Goudge, The Scent of Water

"She knew there could be no certainty, only faith. Could she find faith?"

-Elizabeth Goudge, The Scent of Water

"What is the scent of water?" "Renewal. The goodness of God coming down like dew."

-Elizabeth Goudge, The Scent of Water

"Being ill makes you feel what well people call sentimental, but what you feel is nonetheless genuine whatever they call it."

-Elizabeth Goudge, The Scent of Water

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2. Anatomy of the Soul: Surprising Connections Between Neuroscience and Spiritual Practices that Can Transform Your Life and Relationships

By: Curt Thompson

4.44

Format: None pages, Paperback

Do you want to improve your relationships and experience lasting personal change? Join Curt Thompso… read more

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  • christian
  • nonfiction

3. Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions and Death's Duel: With the Life of Dr. John Donne by Izaak Walton

By: Andrew Motion , John Donne , Izaak Walton

3.73

Format: 251 pages, Paperback

John Donne (1572-1631) is best known as the greatest English metaphysical poet. But there was anoth… read more

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4. Surprised by Oxford

By: Carolyn Weber

4.18

Format: None pages, Paperback

A "girl-meets-God" style memoir of an agnostic who, through her surprising opportunity to study at … read more

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5. The Book of the Dun Cow (Chauntecleer the Rooster, #1)

By: Walter Wangerin Jr.

4.05

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Walter Wangerin's profound fantasy concerns a time when the sun turned around the earth and the ani… read more

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6. The Bark of the Bog Owl (The Wilderking Trilogy, #1)

By: Jonathan Rogers , None , None

4.25

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Twelve-year-old Aidan Errolson comes from a long line of adventurers. His grandparents were among t… read more

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  • christian
"You don't want to be killed. I don't either. But wouldn't you rather die once than die every day of your life?"

-Jonathan Rogers, The Bark of the Bog Owl (The Wilderking Trilogy, #1)

"Who knows what the future holds? Only the One God," explained Aidan. "You just live the little bit of life that you can see in front of you. You live it well. And that gets you ready for whatever unf…"

-Jonathan Rogers, The Bark of the Bog Owl (The Wilderking Trilogy, #1)

7. The Oracle of Philadelphia (Tales of an Unremembered Country #2)

By: A.S. Peterson

4.14

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Tales of an Unremembered Country, No. 2 Signing up for an expedition into the Arctic Sea seemed lik… read more

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8. The Word in the Wilderness

By: Holly Ordway , Malcolm Guite

4.04

Format: None pages,

For every day from Shrove Tuesday to Easter Day, the bestselling poet Malcolm Guite chooses a favou… read more

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9. Henry and the Chalk Dragon

By: Jennifer Trafton , Benjamin Schipper

4.15

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

In the town of Squashbuckle, just about anything can happen, and when Henry Penwhistle draws a migh… read more

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10. Summer Lightning

By: P.G. Wodehouse

4.06

Format: 340 pages, Paperback

The Honourable Galahad Threepwood has decided to write his memoir--a tell-all that could destroy po… read more

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11. The Book that Made Your World: How the Bible Created the Soul of Western Civilization

By: Vishal Mangalwadi , None

4.34

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Understand where we came from. Whether you're an avid student of the Bible or a skeptic of its rele… read more

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12. Beyond Mere Motherhood: Moms Are People Too

By: Cindy Rollins

4.75

Format: 266 pages, Paperback

Being a mom can sometimes feel like an overwhelming job with endless tasks and lofty, unattainable … read more

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  • christian
  • nonfiction
"The truth is that all humans are always seeing something, paying attention to something, learning something. Perhaps, we are learning every sort of sexual innuendo known to man by watching endless re…"

-Cindy Rollins, Beyond Mere Motherhood: Moms Are People Too

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13. Nothing Else But Miracles

By: Kate Albus

4.11

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From the author of A Place to Hang the Moon comes a hopeful World War II story about three scrappy … read more

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14. I Cheerfully Refuse

By: Leif Enger

4.03

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Set in a not-too-distant America, I Cheerfully Refuse is the tale of Rainy, an aspiring musician se… read more

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"Those thieves and lovers and wandering poets- what big lives they had! I began watching everyone I met for secret greatness."

-Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse

"I think the sea has no in-between: you get either rage and wayward lightning and schizoid frenzy or such freehanded beauty that time contract or turns in on itself leaving you forgetful and no more n…"

-Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse

"One shelf became two. Then a wall. Then eight-foot rolling racks from a shut library in Hayward, Wisconsin. Maudie suggested changing the shop name to reflect its inventory. Bread and Books. Loaves a…"

-Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse

"Much as I wanted to think of Lark in someplace better, I knew from a thousand conversations that she never worried abut that place. Maybe it was real and full of saints and poets, or maybe it was poe…"

-Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse

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15. Prayer in the Night: For Those Who Work or Watch or Weep

By: Tish Harrison Warren

4.63

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

ECPA Christian Book of the YearChristianity Today Book of the YearForeword INDIES Book of the Year … read more

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  • christian living
  • christian
  • nonfiction
  • theology
"Voor christenen is slaap een belichaamde manier om te belijden dat we erop vertrouwen dat het werk van God niet van ons afhangt."

-Tish Harrison Warren, Prayer in the Night: For Those Who Work or Watch or Weep

"Bescherm wie blij zijn. In dit gebed erkennen we de kwetsbaarheid van vreugde. We vragen God om mensen die blij zijn te beschermen, om dat deel in ons te beschermen dat moedig genoeg is om te geloven…"

-Tish Harrison Warren, Prayer in the Night: For Those Who Work or Watch or Weep

"Hoewel de statistieken laten zien dat hier in het Westen met name jonge mensen afdwalen naar ongeloof, deels vanwege het probleem van het kwaad, lijkt onze welvaart veel meer twijfel te veroorzaken d…"

-Tish Harrison Warren, Prayer in the Night: For Those Who Work or Watch or Weep

"Het profetisch getuigenis van de kerk in een woedecultuur is om mensen te zijn die weten hoe we samen moeten huilen over de pijn en onrechtvaardigheid in de wereld en over de realiteit van onze eigen…"

-Tish Harrison Warren, Prayer in the Night: For Those Who Work or Watch or Weep

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16. 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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  • christian
  • biography
  • theology
  • christian living
  • nonfiction
"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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17. Art and Faith: A Theology of Making

By: Makoto Fujimura

4.29

Format: 167 pages, Hardcover

From a world-renowned painter, an exploration of creativity’s quintessential—and often overlooked—r… read more

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  • christian
  • nonfiction
  • theology
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18. The Evangelical Imagination: How Stories, Images, and Metaphors Created a Culture in Crisis

By: Karen Swallow Prior

4.25

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Contemporary American evangelicalism is suffering from an identity crisis--and a lot of bad press. … read more

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  • christian living
  • christian
  • nonfiction
  • theology
"For Hardy and other critics of the evangelical movement, too often the desire for purity encouraged hypocrisy, earnest ideals became mere performance, and the valuation of hard work turned into pursu…"

-Karen Swallow Prior, The Evangelical Imagination: How Stories, Images, and Metaphors Created a Culture in Crisis

"The novel [ Pamela ] is also a very powerful early expression of the modern self, one who sees her soul as equal in human worth and dignity to anyone, regardless of social class or power--and this, t…"

-Karen Swallow Prior, The Evangelical Imagination: How Stories, Images, and Metaphors Created a Culture in Crisis

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19. On Getting Out of Bed: The Burden and Gift of Living

By: Alan Noble

4.33

Format: 108 pages, Hardcover

We aren't always honest about how difficult normal human life is. For the majority of people, sorro… read more

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  • christian living
  • christian
  • nonfiction
  • theology
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20. Advent: The Season of Hope (Fullness of Time)

By: Tish Harrison Warren

4.52

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

"Christians believe not just in one coming of Christ, but in three." We tend to think of Advent as … read more

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  • christian living
  • christian
  • nonfiction
  • theology
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21. How Far to the Promised Land: One Black Family's Story of Hope and Survival in the American South

By: Esau McCaulley

4.62

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times contributing opinion writer and award-winning author of Reading While Black… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • christian
  • biography
"There is no Black faith that doesn't wrestle with the problem of evil. My reply to these questions is: We who have suffered must have some say in how that suffering is interpreted. We won the right, …"

-Esau McCaulley, How Far to the Promised Land: One Black Family's Story of Hope and Survival in the American South

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22. Overcoming Apathy: Gospel Hope for Those Who Struggle to Care

By: Uche Anizor

4.22

Format: None pages, ebook

Understanding Apathy and How to Combat It For many Christians, apathy can feel inescapable. They ex… read more

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  • christian living
  • christian
  • nonfiction
  • theology
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23. Reading Genesis

By: Marilynne Robinson

4.10

Format: 344 pages, Hardcover

One of our greatest novelists and thinkers presents a radiant, thrilling interpretation of the book… read more

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  • christian
  • nonfiction
  • theology
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24. Lent: The Season of Repentance and Renewal

By: Esau McCaulley

4.43

Format: 112 pages, Hardcover

"Lent is inescapably about repenting." Every year, the church invites us into a season of repentanc… read more

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  • christian living
  • christian
  • nonfiction
  • theology
"We hope that as Christians we mature and grow and become more and more like Christ. But the church and its wisdom assumes we will fail even after our baptism. The church presumes that life is long an…"

-Esau McCaulley, Lent: The Season of Repentance and Renewal

Cover of Habits for a Sacred Home: 9 Practices from History to Anchor and Restore Modern Families (Helping Moms Experience Peace & Return to Simple Daily Rhythms from Historic Christians like St. Benedict) by Jennifer Pepito

25. Habits for a Sacred Home: 9 Practices from History to Anchor and Restore Modern Families (Helping Moms Experience Peace & Return to Simple Daily Rhythms from Historic Christians like St. Benedict)

By: Jennifer Pepito

4.14

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Frightened by the chaos in society, many parents fear for their children's futures--and end up rais… read more

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  • christian living
  • christian
  • nonfiction
Cover of Is Easter Unbelievable?: Four Questions Everyone Should Ask About the Resurrection Story by Rebecca McLaughlin

26. Is Easter Unbelievable?: Four Questions Everyone Should Ask About the Resurrection Story

By: Rebecca McLaughlin

4.42

Format: 56 pages, Kindle Edition

Explores the evidence for Jesus' resurrection and how that provides a rational basis for Christian … read more

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  • christian
  • nonfiction
  • theology
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27. The Door on Half-Bald Hill

By: Helena Sorensen

4.17

Format: 302 pages, Paperback

"They believed they had come to the last turning of the wheel." When the Bloodmoon rose, death c… read more

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  • christian
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28. The Major and the Missionary: The Letters Of Warren Hamilton Lewis And Blanche Biggs

By: Diana Pavlac Glyer

4.37

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

After the death of his brother, Warren Lewis lived at The Kilns in Oxford, edited his famous brothe… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • christian
  • biography
Cover of Land of My Sojourn: The Landscape of a Faith Lost and Found by Mike Cosper

29. Land of My Sojourn: The Landscape of a Faith Lost and Found

By: Mike Cosper

4.34

Format: 168 pages, Hardcover

In the years since leaving local church ministry, I've devoted an enormous amount of time and resou… read more

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  • christian living
  • christian
  • nonfiction
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30. Undone: A Modern Rendering of John Donne's Devotions

By: Philip Yancey

4.44

Format: 145 pages, Paperback

As the world entered the long night of 2020, Philip Yancey turned to John Donne's Devotions, a near… read more

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  • classics
  • biography
  • christian
  • theology
  • christian living
  • nonfiction
Cover of Nobody's Mother: Artemis of the Ephesians in Antiquity and the New Testament by Sandra L. Glahn

31. 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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  • christian
  • nonfiction
  • theology

18 Best nonfiction books like Undone: A Modern Rendering of John Donne's Devotions by Philip Yancey

Transform Your Habits

Anatomy of the Soul: Surprising Connections Between Neuroscience and Spiritual Practices that Can Transform Your Life and Relationships

Curt Thompson

4.44

Transform Your Habits

Beyond Mere Motherhood: Moms Are People Too

Cindy Rollins

4.75

Transform Your Habits

Prayer in the Night: For Those Who Work or Watch or Weep

Tish Harrison Warren

4.63

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

Russ Ramsey

4.53

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4.38

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Practicing the Way: Be with Jesus, Become Like Him, Do As He Did

John Mark Comer

4.63

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Praying Like Monks, Living Like Fools: An Invitation to the Wonder and Mystery of Prayer

Tyler Staton

4.60

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