16 must-read history books like Fatal Discord: Erasmus, Luther, and the Fight for the Western Mind by Michael Massing

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Fatal Discord: Erasmus, Luther, and the Fight for the Western Mind

By: Michael Massing

4.42

Format: 1008 pages, Hardcover

An engrossing dual biography and fascinating intellectual history that examines two of the greatest…

If you liked the history plot in Fatal Discord: Erasmus, Luther, and the Fight for the Western Mind by Michael Massing , here is a list of 16 books like this:

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1. Jesus Wars: How Four Patriarchs, Three Queens, and Two Emperors Decided What Christians Would Believe for the Next 1,500 Years

By: Philip Jenkins

3.80

Format: 328 pages, Hardcover

In Jesus Wars , highly respected religious historian Philip Jenkins ( The Next Christendom ) reveal… read more

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  • christian
  • history
  • theology
  • christianity
  • religion
  • nonfiction
"In any theological struggle, the first thousand years are always the bitterest."

-Philip Jenkins, Jesus Wars: How Four Patriarchs, Three Queens, and Two Emperors Decided What Christians Would Believe for the Next 1,500 Years

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2. On Christian Doctrine

By: Augustine of Hippo , D.W. Robertson Jr.

3.25

Format: None pages, Paperback

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  • christian
  • theology
  • christianity
  • philosophy
  • religion
  • nonfiction
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3. Roger Williams and the Creation of the American Soul: Church, State, and the Birth of Liberty

By: John M. Barry

3.32

Format: None pages,

A revelatory look at how Roger Williams shaped the nature of religion, political power, and individ… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • theology
  • religion
  • nonfiction

4. The Place of the Lion

By: Charles Williams

4.06

Format: None pages, Paperback

Novelist, poet, critic, and dramatist Williams uses fiction to explore how people react when the su… read more

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5. Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution

By: Simon Schama

3.80

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Instead of a dying Old Regime, Schama presents an ebullient country, vital & inventive, infatuated … read more

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6. Fluke: Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do Matters

By: Brian Klaas

4.13

Format: 335 pages, Kindle Edition

Want to know what chaos theory can teach us about human events? In the perspective-altering traditi… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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7. The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook

By: Hampton Sides

4.51

Format: 408 pages, Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling author Hampton Sides, an epic account of the most momentous voyage … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • history
  • audiobook
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8. Humanly Possible: Seven Hundred Years of Humanist Freethinking, Inquiry, and Hope

By: Sarah Bakewell

4.03

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

The bestselling author of How to Live and At the Existentialist Café explores seven hundred years o… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Bakewell's Humanly Possible: Seven Hundred Years of Humanist Freethinking, Inquiry, and Hope book and Michael Massing's Fatal Discord: Erasmus, Luther, and the Fight for the Western Mind

  • biography
  • history
  • philosophy
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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9. The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth

By: Zoë Schlanger

4.37

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning environment and science reporter Zoë Schlanger delivers a groundbreaking work of popu… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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10. Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient Roman World

By: Mary Beard

4.11

Format: 493 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping account of the social and political world of the Roman emperors by “the world’s most fam… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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11. 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

Similar categories in Sarah McCammon's The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church book and Michael Massing's Fatal Discord: Erasmus, Luther, and the Fight for the Western Mind

  • christian
  • history
  • christianity
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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12. A New World Begins: The History of the French Revolution

By: Jeremy D. Popkin

4.21

Format: 640 pages, Hardcover

From an award-winning historian, a magisterial account of the revolution that created the modern wo… read more

Similar categories in Jeremy D. Popkin's A New World Begins: The History of the French Revolution book and Michael Massing's Fatal Discord: Erasmus, Luther, and the Fight for the Western Mind

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • european history
  • audiobook
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13. The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution

By: Eric Foner

4.24

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

From the Pulitzer Prize–winning historian, an authoritative story of the constitutional changes tha… read more

Similar categories in Eric Foner's The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution book and Michael Massing's Fatal Discord: Erasmus, Luther, and the Fight for the Western Mind

  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of The Florentines: From Dante to Galileo: The Transformation of Western Civilization by Paul Strathern

14. The Florentines: From Dante to Galileo: The Transformation of Western Civilization

By: Paul Strathern

4.23

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping and magisterial four-hundred-year history of both the city and the people who gave birth… read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • european history
  • audiobook
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15. The Great Dechurching: Who’s Leaving, Why Are They Going, and What Will It Take to Bring Them Back?

By: Jim Davis

3.88

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

We are currently experiencing the largest and fastest religious shift in US history. It is greater … read more

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  • christian
  • theology
  • christianity
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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16. Self-Made: Creating Our Identities from Da Vinci to the Kardashians

By: Tara Isabella Burton

3.93

Format: None pages, Audiobook

 An exploration into the curation of the self in Western civilization from Da Vinci to Kim Kardashi… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
"Our economic, cultural, and personal lives are suffused with the notion that we can and should transform ourselves into modern-day deities, simultaneously living works of art to be admired by others …"

-Tara Isabella Burton, Self-Made: Creating Our Identities from Da Vinci to the Kardashians

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17. The Verge: Reformation, Renaissance, and Forty Years that Shook the World

By: Patrick Wyman

4.15

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

The creator of the hit podcast series Tides of History and Fall of Rome explores the four explosive… read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • european history
  • audiobook
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18. Emperor: A New Life of Charles V

By: Geoffrey Parker

4.13

Format: 737 pages, Hardcover

Drawing on vital new evidence, a top historian dramatically reinterprets the ruler of the world’s f… read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • european history
  • audiobook
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19. Cultural Christians in the Early Church: A Historical and Practical Introduction to Christians in the Greco-Roman World

By: Nadya Williams

4.08

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

In the middle of the third century CE, one North African bishop wrote a treatise for the women of h… read more

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  • christian
  • history
  • theology
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Fatal Discord: Erasmus, Luther, and the Fight for the Western Mind by Michael Massing

20. Fatal Discord: Erasmus, Luther, and the Fight for the Western Mind

By: Michael Massing

4.42

Format: 1008 pages, Hardcover

An engrossing dual biography and fascinating intellectual history that examines two of the greatest… read more

Similar categories in Michael Massing's Fatal Discord: Erasmus, Luther, and the Fight for the Western Mind book and Michael Massing's Fatal Discord: Erasmus, Luther, and the Fight for the Western Mind

  • christian
  • biography
  • history
  • theology
  • christianity
  • philosophy
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • european history
  • audiobook
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21. Nature's Mutiny: How the Little Ice Age of the Long Seventeenth Century Transformed the West and Shaped the Present

By: Philipp Blom

3.58

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Although hints of a crisis appeared as early as the 1570s, the temperature by the end of the sixtee… read more

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  • history
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • european history
  • audiobook

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4.51

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Humanly Possible: Seven Hundred Years of Humanist Freethinking, Inquiry, and Hope

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4.03

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4.16

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Queens of the Crusades (England's Medieval Queens, #2)

Alison Weir

3.97

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The Habsburgs: To Rule the World

Martyn Rady

3.85

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Matilda: Empress, Queen, Warrior

Catherine Hanley

4.20

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