10 best-selling christian books like Passions of the Soul by Rowan Williams

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Passions of the Soul

By: Rowan Williams

4.48

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

The Eastern Christian tradition is filled with theological and spiritual riches. In Passions of th…

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Cover of The Imitation of Christ by Thomas à Kempis, William Benham, Richard Challoner, D.D.

1. The Imitation of Christ

By: Thomas à Kempis , William Benham , Richard Challoner, D.D.

4.32

Format: 632 pages, Paperback

Only the Bible has been more influential as a source of Christian devotional reading than The Imita… read more

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  • christian
  • theology
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2. Focusing

By: Eugene T. Gendlin

4.33

Format: None pages, Paperback

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3. Orthodoxy

By: G.K. Chesterton

4.11

Format: 528 pages, Paperback

Chesterton (The Man Who Knew Too Much) capped his brilliant literary career with this exploration o… read more

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  • christianity
  • philosophy
  • christian
  • theology
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4. My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer

By: Christian Wiman

4.16

Format: 422 pages, Hardcover

Seven years ago, Christian Wiman, a well-known poet and the editor of Poetrymagazine, wrote a now-f… read more

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  • christianity
  • theology
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5. You Are What You Love: The Spiritual Power of Habit

By: James K.A. Smith

3.63

Format: None pages, Hardcover

You are what you love. But you might not love what you think. In this book, award-winning author Ja… read more

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  • christianity
  • philosophy
  • christian
  • theology

6. 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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7. The Ethics of Authenticity

By: Charles Margrave Taylor

3.60

Format: None pages,

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8. A Short History Of Ethics: A History Of Moral Philosophy From The Homeric Age To The Twentieth Century

By: Alasdair MacIntyre

3.50

Format: 424 pages,

In this classic work, Alasdair MacIntyre guides the reader through the history of moral philosophy … read more

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9. Time's Echo: The Second World War, the Holocaust, and the Music of Remembrance

By: Jeremy Eichler

4.54

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A stirring account of how music bears witness to history and carries forward the memory of the wart… read more

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10. I Is Another: Septology III-V

By: Jon Fosse

4.44

Format: 271 pages, Paperback

Asle is an ageing painter and widower who lives alone on the southwest coast of Norway. His only fr… read more

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"...I just keep the mistakes and let them be wrong, because it’s often the mistakes that eventually lead to something right..."

-Jon Fosse, I Is Another: Septology III-V

"...one of the most important things when it comes to painting is being able to stop at the right time, to know when a picture is saying what it can say, if you keep going too long then more often tha…"

-Jon Fosse, I Is Another: Septology III-V

"...a person comes from God and goes back to God, I think, for the body is conceived and born, it grows and declines, it dies and vanishes, but the spirit is a unity of body and soul, the way form and…"

-Jon Fosse, I Is Another: Septology III-V

"...everyone has a deep longing inside them, we always always long for something and we believe that what we long for is this or that, this person or that person, this thing or that thing, but actuall…"

-Jon Fosse, I Is Another: Septology III-V

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11. 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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  • christianity
  • christian
  • 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

Cover of Jesus and the Powers: Christian Political Witness in an Age of Totalitarian Terror and Dysfunctional Democracies by N.T. Wright

12. 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

Similar categories in N.T. Wright's Jesus and the Powers: Christian Political Witness in an Age of Totalitarian Terror and Dysfunctional Democracies book and Rowan Williams's Passions of the Soul

  • christianity
  • christian
  • theology
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13. Orbital

By: Samantha Harvey

3.73

Format: 207 pages, Hardcover

A slender novel of epic power, Orbital  deftly snapshots one day in the lives of six women and men … read more

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"Maybe we're the new dinosaurs and need to watch out."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

"The past comes, the future, the past, the future. It's always now, it's never now."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

"Raw space is a panther, feral and primal; they dream it stalking through their quarters."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

"That's all this great human endeavor of space exploration really is, he thinks, an animal migration, a bid for survival. A looping song sent into the open, a territorial animal song."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

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14. 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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  • christianity
  • philosophy
  • christian
  • theology
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15. The Love That Is God: An Invitation to Christian Faith

By: Frederick Christian Bauerschmidt

4.44

Format: 147 pages, Paperback

 “God is love is  the  radical claim of Christianity,” writes Frederick Bauerschmidt at the beginni… read more

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  • christianity
  • christian
  • theology
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16. Passions of the Soul

By: Rowan Williams

4.48

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

The Eastern Christian tradition is filled with theological and spiritual riches. In Passions of th… read more

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  • christianity
  • philosophy
  • christian
  • theology
Cover of Fully Alive: Tending to the Soul in Turbulent Times by Elizabeth  Oldfield

17. Fully Alive: Tending to the Soul in Turbulent Times

By: Elizabeth Oldfield

4.26

Format: 273 pages, Kindle Edition

'This remarkable book points not to some unreachable ideal of life but to a deeper, more soulful an… read more

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  • christianity
  • christian
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18. War in Heaven

By: Charles Williams

3.83

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

An alternate cover for this ISBN can be found: here A battle over the most sacred object in Chri… read more

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"The telephone bell was ringing wildly, but without result, since there was no-one in the room but the corpse."

-Charles Williams, War in Heaven

"[...] the war between good and evil existed no longer, for the thing beneath the Graal was not fighting but vomiting."

-Charles Williams, War in Heaven

"An hour's conversation on literature between two ardent minds with a common devotion to a neglected poet is a miraculous road to intimacy."

-Charles Williams, War in Heaven

"There is no possible idea," Kenneth thought as he came onto the terrace, "to which the mind of man can't supply some damned alternative or other. Yet one must act."

-Charles Williams, War in Heaven

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19. Lost in Ideology: Interpreting Modern Political Life

By: Jason Blakely

4.58

Format: 189 pages, Kindle Edition

"Quite simply the best guide to today’s dominant ideologies." - William Cavanaugh, America Magazine… read more

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  • philosophy
Cover of Doorway to Artistry: Attuning Your Philosophy to Enhance Your Creativity by Esther Lightcap Meek

20. Doorway to Artistry: Attuning Your Philosophy to Enhance Your Creativity

By: Esther Lightcap Meek

4.79

Format: 248 pages, Paperback

Your artistry involves you intimately with the world around and beyond you. So your artistry involv… read more

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  • philosophy
Cover of Resurrection and Renewal: Jesus and the Transformation of Creation by Murray A Rae

21. Resurrection and Renewal: Jesus and the Transformation of Creation

By: Murray A Rae

4.75

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

The resurrection of Jesus from the dead lies at the heart of the Christian faith. It is the turning… read more

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G.K. Chesterton

4.11

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You Are What You Love: The Spiritual Power of Habit

James K.A. Smith

3.63

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Reading Genesis

Marilynne Robinson

4.10

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Rowan Williams

4.48

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The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise

Olivia Laing

4.07

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The Rigor of Angels: Borges, Heisenberg, Kant, and the Ultimate Nature of Reality

William Egginton

4.28

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The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook

Hampton Sides

4.51

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The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

Erik Larson

4.24

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