20 best-selling theology books like Wholly Citizens: God's Two Realms and Christian Engagement with the World by Joel D. Biermann

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Wholly Citizens: God's Two Realms and Christian Engagement with the World

By: Joel D. Biermann

4.31

Format: 228 pages, Paperback

Wholly Citizens addresses the relation between the church and the world in light of the Reformation…

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1. Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win

By: Jocko Willink , Leif Babin

4.26

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The #1 New York Times bestseller Sent to the most violent battlefield in Iraq, Jocko Willink and Le… read more

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2. God's Battalions: The Case for the Crusades

By: Rodney Stark

4.07

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

In God’s Battalions, distinguished scholar Rodney Stark puts forth a controversial argument that th… read more

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"Many critics of the Crusades would seem to suppose that after the Muslims had overrun a major portion of Christendom, they should have been ignored or forgiven; suggestions have been made about turni…"

-Rodney Stark, God's Battalions: The Case for the Crusades

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3. Law & Gospel: How to Read & Apply the Bible

By: C.F.W. Walther

4.71

Format: 514 pages, Hardcover

The treatise on the Lutheran understanding of Law and Gospel. read more

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"If the teaching of Christ were a law, it would not be a gospel {glad tiding}, but a sad tiding."

-C.F.W. Walther, Law & Gospel: How to Read & Apply the Bible

"The Gospel does not say, "you must do good works." Rather, it fashions us into human beings, into creatures who cannot help serve God and fellow human beings. Without a doubt, a precious effect!"

-C.F.W. Walther, Law & Gospel: How to Read & Apply the Bible

"We see that the law was not reveal to us to put a notion into our heads that we could become righteous by it, but to teach us that we are completely unable to fulfill the law. Then we will know what …"

-C.F.W. Walther, Law & Gospel: How to Read & Apply the Bible

"The main thing to tell a person when you explain how to become righteous is to announce to him for free grace of God, concealing nothing, saying none other than what God says in the Gospel. Build a f…"

-C.F.W. Walther, Law & Gospel: How to Read & Apply the Bible

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4. The Cost of Discipleship

By: Dietrich Bonhoeffer

4.30

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

One of the most important theologians of the twentieth century illuminates the relationship between… read more

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"When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die."

-Dietrich Bonhoeffer, The Cost of Discipleship

"Discipleship is not an offer that man makes to Christ."

-Dietrich Bonhoeffer, The Cost of Discipleship

"Only he who believes is obedient, and only he who is obedient believes."

-Dietrich Bonhoeffer, The Cost of Discipleship

"Strict exercise of self-control is an essential feature of the Christian's life."

-Dietrich Bonhoeffer, The Cost of Discipleship

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5. The Bondage of the Will

By: J.I. Packer , Martin Luther , O.R. Johnston

3.91

Format: 340 pages, Paperback

First published in 1525, Martin Luther's "Bondage of the Will" is acknowledged by theologians as on… read more

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6. The Everlasting Man

By: G.K. Chesterton

4.16

Format: 260 pages, Paperback

What, if anything, is it that makes the human uniquely human? This, in part, is the question that G… read more

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"Men are moved most by their religion; especially when it is irreligion."

-G.K. Chesterton, The Everlasting Man

"Classic literature is still something that hangs in the air like a song."

-G.K. Chesterton, The Everlasting Man

"A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it."

-G.K. Chesterton, The Everlasting Man

"The boldest plans for the future invoke the authority of the past; and that even a revolutionary seeks to satisfy himself that he is also a reactionary."

-G.K. Chesterton, The Everlasting Man

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7. The Book of Concord: The Confessions of the Evangelical Lutheran Church

By: Martin Luther , Philipp Melanchthon , Robert Kolb , Timothy J. Wengert

4.26

Format: 999 pages, Hardcover

A new translation with expanded introductions and annotations. read more

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8. The Great Divorce

By: C.S. Lewis

4.31

Format: 146 pages, Paperback

Alternative cover for ISBN: 978-0-00-746123-3 C.S. Lewis’ The Great Divorce is a classic Christi… read more

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"Reality is harsh to the feet of shadows. But will you come?"

-C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce

"Good, as it ripens, becomes continually more different not only from evil but from other good."

-C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce

"There is but one good; that is God. Everything else is good when it looks to Him and bad when it turns from Him."

-C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce

"I cannot love a lie," said the Lady. "I cannot love the thing which is not. I am in Love, and out of it I will not go."

-C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce

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9. Confessions

By: Augustine of Hippo , Henry Chadwick , Albert Cook Outler

3.41

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Augustine's Confessions is one of the most influential and most innovative works of Latin literatur… read more

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10. Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community

By: Dietrich Bonhoeffer

4.27

Format: 122 pages, Paperback

After his martyrdom at the hands of the Gestapo in 1945, Dietrich Bonhoeffer continued his witness … read more

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"God is not a God of the emotions but the God of truth."

-Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community

"We pray for the big things and forget to give thanks for the ordinary, small (and yet really not small) gifts."

-Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community

"It is only when he is a burden that another person is really a brother and not merely an object to be manipulated"

-Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community

"The Church does not need brilliant personalities but faithful servants of Jesus and the brethren. Not in the former but in the latter is the lack."

-Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community

11. The Abolition of Man

By: C.S. Lewis

3.97

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

Alternative cover for ISBN: 978-0060652944 The Abolition of Man, Lewis uses his graceful prose, del… read more

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12. Saint Thomas Aquinas

By: G.K. Chesterton , Anton C. Pegis

4.45

Format: None pages, Paperback

G.K. Chesterton's brilliant sketch of the life and thought of Thomas Aquinas is as relevant today a… read more

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13. The Spirituality of the Cross

By: Gene Edward Veith Jr.

3.69

Format: 47 pages, Paperback

The author uses his own spiritual experience as a backdrop to examine what led him to a relationshi… read more

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14. Resident Aliens: Life in the Christian Colony

By: William H. Willimon , Stanley Hauerwas

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

In this bold and visionary book, two leading Christian thinkers explore the "alien" status of Chris… read more

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15. Foundation (Foundation, #1)

By: Isaac Asimov

4.17

Format: 244 pages, Hardcover

The first novel in Isaac Asimov's classic science-fiction masterpiece, the Foundation series Fo… read more

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"Past glories are poor feeding."

-Isaac Asimov, Foundation (Foundation, #1)

"Weak emperors mean strong viceroys. "

-Isaac Asimov, Foundation (Foundation, #1)

"I shall not be alive a half decade hence,"

-Isaac Asimov, Foundation (Foundation, #1)

"Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent."

-Isaac Asimov, Foundation (Foundation, #1)

16. To Change the World: The Irony, Tragedy, and Possibility of Christianity in the Late Modern World

By: James Davison Hunter

4.45

Format: 864 pages, Hardcover

The call to make the world a better place is inherent in the Christian belief and practice. But why… read more

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17. Timothy Keller: His Spiritual and Intellectual Formation

By: Collin Hansen

4.56

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Timothy Keller takes readers behind the scenes to meet the people and understand the events that fo… read more

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18. The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self: Cultural Amnesia, Expressive Individualism, and the Road to Sexual Revolution

By: Carl R. Trueman

4.57

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

Modern culture is obsessed with identity. Since the landmark Obergefell v. Hodges Supreme Court … read more

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"[I]n the work of the New Left one finds philosophical justification for what are now intuitive commonplaces of our culture: to be free is to be sexually liberated; to be happy is to be affirmed in th…"

-Carl R. Trueman, The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self: Cultural Amnesia, Expressive Individualism, and the Road to Sexual Revolution

"The expressive individual is now the sexually expressive individual. And education and socialization are to be marked not by the cultivation of traditional sexual interdicts and taboos but rather by …"

-Carl R. Trueman, The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self: Cultural Amnesia, Expressive Individualism, and the Road to Sexual Revolution

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19. The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry: How to Stay Emotionally Healthy and Spiritually Alive in the Chaos of the Modern World

By: John Mark Comer

4.53

Format: 286 pages, Hardcover

"Who am I becoming?" That was the question nagging pastor and author John Mark Comer. Outwardly, he… read more

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"Hurry is violence on the soul."

-John Mark Comer, The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry: How to Stay Emotionally Healthy and Spiritually Alive in the Chaos of the Modern World

"In the cruciform kingdom, only the bad things die: image and status and bragging rights, all vanity."

-John Mark Comer, The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry: How to Stay Emotionally Healthy and Spiritually Alive in the Chaos of the Modern World

"The point of a trellis isn’t to make the vines stand up straight in neat rows, but rather to attain a rich, deep glass of wine. It’s to create space for the vine to grow and bear fruit."

-John Mark Comer, The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry: How to Stay Emotionally Healthy and Spiritually Alive in the Chaos of the Modern World

"The Hebrew word Shabbat means ‘to stop.’ But it can also be translated ‘to delight.’ It has this dual idea of stopping and also of joying in God and our lives in his world. The Sabbath is an entire d…"

-John Mark Comer, The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry: How to Stay Emotionally Healthy and Spiritually Alive in the Chaos of the Modern World

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20. Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up

By: Abigail Shrier

4.06

Format: 350 pages, Kindle Edition

In virtually every way that can be measured, Gen Z's mental health is worse than that of previous g… read more

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"Children’s and adolescents’ sense of self is still developing. They cannot correct the interpretations or recommendations of a therapist."

-Abigail Shrier, Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up

"When I agreed with my therapist, I told her so. When I didn’t, we talked about that. And when I felt I needed to move on, I did. Which is to say: I was an adult in therapy. I had swum life’s choppy w…"

-Abigail Shrier, Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up

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21. How to Inhabit Time: Understanding the Past, Facing the Future, Living Faithfully Now

By: James K.A. Smith

4.29

Format: 189 pages, Hardcover

Many Christians are disconnected from the past or imagine they are "above" history, immune to it, a… read more

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22. The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness

By: Jonathan Haidt

4.46

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

After more than a decade of stability or improvement, the mental health of adolescents plunged in t… read more

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"Socially prescribed perfectionism is closely related to anxiety; people who suffer from anxiety are more prone to it. Being a perfectionist also increases your anxiety because you fear the shame of p…"

-Jonathan Haidt, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness

"Girls in virtual networks are subjected to hundreds of times more social comparison than girls had experienced for all of human evolution. They are exposed to more cruelty and bullying because social…"

-Jonathan Haidt, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness

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23. Strange Rites: New Religions for a Godless World

By: Tara Isabella Burton

3.92

Format: 301 pages, Hardcover

A sparklingly strange odyssey through the kaleidoscope of America's new spirituality: the cults, pr… read more

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"When it comes to Remixed religion, at least, we all come out from under Severus Snape's robes."

-Tara Isabella Burton, Strange Rites: New Religions for a Godless World

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24. Extra Nos: Discovering Grace Outside Myself

By: Flame

4.50

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

GRAMMY®-nominated and Stellar Award-winning hip-hop artist FLAME invites you to step up to his mic … read more

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25. Lutherans in America: A New History

By: Mark Granquist

3.76

Format: 375 pages, Paperback

The story of Lutherans in America is one of mutual influence. From the first small groups of Luther… read more

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26. Christification: A Lutheran Approach to Theosis

By: Jordan B. Cooper

4.28

Format: 144 pages, Kindle Edition

The doctrine of theosis has enjoyed a recent resurgence among varied theological traditions across … read more

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27. Two Natures in Christ

By: Martin Chemnitz

4.53

Format: 542 pages, Hardcover

This is a translation of Chemnitz's De Duabus Naturis in Christo, written in 1578. This book concer… read more

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28. The Way of Salvation in the Lutheran Church

By: G.H. Gerberding

4.15

Format: 114 pages, Kindle Edition

This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteer… read more

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29. Wholly Citizens: God's Two Realms and Christian Engagement with the World

By: Joel D. Biermann

4.31

Format: 228 pages, Paperback

Wholly Citizens addresses the relation between the church and the world in light of the Reformation… read more

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30. Rediscovering the Issues Surrounding the 1974 Concordia Seminary Walkout

By: Concordia Publishing House

4.42

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

Explore the important doctrinal issues from a confessional Lutheran perspective that led to the spl… read more

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31. Confessional Lutheran Dogmatics: The Holy Trinity

By: Carl L. Beckwith

4.70

Format: 548 pages, Kindle Edition

This dogmatic resource is based upon the outline and thought pattern of the Lutheran Confessions. T… read more

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15 Top theology books like Confessional Lutheran Dogmatics: The Holy Trinity by Carl L. Beckwith

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I Trust When Dark My Road: A Lutheran View of Depression

Todd A. Peperkorn

4.50

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Christ-Centered Preaching: Redeeming the Expository Sermon

Bryan Chapell

4.29

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Law & Gospel: How to Read & Apply the Bible

C.F.W. Walther

4.71

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