18 best-selling religion books like Christ the Educator (Fathers of the Church) by Clement of Alexandria

Christ the Educator (Fathers of the Church)

By: Clement of Alexandria

3.55

Format: 309 pages, Hardcover

Paedagogus, The Instructor, was the second in the trilogy of Clement of Alexandria. Having laid a f…

"For, in a word, if one thinks himself made beautiful by gold, he is inferior to gold; and he that is inferior to gold is not lord of it."

-Clement of Alexandria, Christ the Educator (Fathers of the Church)

"For, in a word, if one thinks himself made beautiful by gold, he is inferior to gold; and he that is inferior to gold is not lord of it."

-Clement of Alexandria, Christ the Educator (Fathers of the Church)

"Our superintendence in instruction and discipline is the office of the Word, from whom we learn frugality and humility, and all that pertains to love of truth, love of humanity, and love of excellence. And so, in a word, being assimilated to God by participation in moral excellence, we must not retrograde into carelessness and sloth. But labor, and faint not."

-Clement of Alexandria, Christ the Educator (Fathers of the Church)

"Our superintendence in instruction and discipline is the office of the Word, from whom we learn frugality and humility, and all that pertains to love of truth, love of humanity, and love of excellence. And so, in a word, being assimilated to God by participation in moral excellence, we must not retrograde into carelessness and sloth. But labor, and faint not."

-Clement of Alexandria, Christ the Educator (Fathers of the Church)

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1. The Apology

By: Tertullian

3.77

Format: None pages,

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  • christianity
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  • theology
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2. Christianity and Liberalism

By: J. Gresham Machen

4.33

Format: 199 pages, Paperback

Machen's classic defense of orthodox Christianity establishes the importance of scriptural doctrine… read more

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  • theology
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  • philosophy
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  • nonfiction
"The truth is that if Jesus be merely an example, He is not a worthy example; for He claimed to be far more."

-J. Gresham Machen, Christianity and Liberalism

"According to modern liberalism, in other words, Jesus was the Founder of Christianity because He was the first Christian, and Christianity consists in maintenance of the religious life which Jesus in…"

-J. Gresham Machen, Christianity and Liberalism

"When we come to see that it was no mere man who suffered on Calvary but the Lord of Glory, then we shall be willing to say that one drop of the precious blood of Jesus is of more value, for our own s…"

-J. Gresham Machen, Christianity and Liberalism

"The sage of Nazareth may satisfy those who have never faced the problem of evil in their own lives; but to talk about an ideal to those who are under the thralldom of sin is a cruel mockery. Yet if J…"

-J. Gresham Machen, Christianity and Liberalism

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3. Know the Faith: A Handbook for Orthodox Christians and Inquirers

By: None , Michael Shanbour

4.39

Format: None pages,

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  • christianity
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4. St. Ignatius of Antioch: The Epistles

By: Paul A. Böer Sr. , Ignatius of Antioch

4.23

Format: 192 pages,

This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with stran… read more

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  • christianity
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  • theology
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5. The Prayer of Jabez: Breaking Through to the Blessed Life

By: Bruce H. Wilkinson

3.97

Format: 93 pages, Hardcover

Dr. Bruce Wilkinson, president of Walk Thru the Bible Ministries, takes readers to 1 Chronicles 4:1… read more

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  • christianity
  • religion
  • nonfiction
"Your Father knows your gifts, your hindrances, and the condition you're in at every moment. And He also knows something you can't possibly know--every single person who's in desperate need of receivi…"

-Bruce H. Wilkinson, The Prayer of Jabez: Breaking Through to the Blessed Life

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6. An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith

By: John of Damascus

4.01

Format: 30 pages,

A polymath whose fields of interest and contribution included law, theology, philosophy, and music,… read more

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7. A Plea for the Christians

By: Athenagoras of Athens

4.15

Format: 399 pages,

Three things are alleged against us: atheism, Thyestean feasts, OEdipodean intercourse. But if thes… read more

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  • christianity
  • philosophy
  • religion
  • nonfiction
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8. The Idiot

By: Fyodor Dostoevsky , Constance Garnett , Joseph Frank , Alan Myers , Anna Brailovsky

4.21

Format: 667 pages, Paperback

Returning to Russia from a sanitarium in Switzerland, the Christ-like epileptic Prince Myshkin find… read more

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"I'm drunk but truthful."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot

"Beauty will save the world."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot

"The Russian soul is a dark place."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot

"She is passion embodied, a flower of melodrama in eternal bloom."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot

9. The First Epistle of Clement to the Corinthians

By: Clement of Rome

3.86

Format: None pages,

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10. On the Incarnation

By: C.S. Lewis , Athanasius of Alexandria , None

3.29

Format: None pages, Paperback

A universally acknowledged masterpiece of fourth-century patristic theology. As C. S. Lewis observe… read more

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11. The Life of St. Anthony

By: E.A. Wallis Budge , Athanasius of Alexandria

3.98

Format: 212 pages,

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12. Fathers and Sons

By: Ivan Turgenev , None , None

3.99

Format: 244 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Bazarov—a gifted, impatient, and caustic young man—has journeyed from school to the home of his fri… read more

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"He has no faith in principles, only in frogs."

-Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons

"Death's an old story, but new for each person."

-Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons

"I look up to heaven only when I want to sneeze."

-Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons

"However, I know myself as a very unhappy person."

-Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons

13. On First Principles

By: Origen , Henri de Lubac , None , None , None , None

4.18

Format: 200 pages, Hardcover

s/t: Being Koetschau's Text of the De Principiis Translated into English Together with an Introduct… read more

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14. The First and Second Apologies

By: Justin Martyr

4.09

Format: None pages, Hardcover

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15. The Trinity

By: Augustine of Hippo , None , John E. Rotelle

4.44

Format: 212 pages, Paperback

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16. Living Fearless: Exchanging the Lies of the World for the Liberating Truth of God

By: Jamie Winship

4.49

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Jamie Winship spent nearly 30 years living and working in conflict zones, and during that time he h… read more

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  • christianity
  • nonfiction
"Fear shuts down creativity and the reception of new ideas."

-Jamie Winship, Living Fearless: Exchanging the Lies of the World for the Liberating Truth of God

"But the Bible narrative is all about creativity bursting forth from the true self, the true you."

-Jamie Winship, Living Fearless: Exchanging the Lies of the World for the Liberating Truth of God

"We want to be mentally, physically, and spiritually fit. We don't want to be well, we want to be fit."

-Jamie Winship, Living Fearless: Exchanging the Lies of the World for the Liberating Truth of God

"That's how long the idea had been inside her. She couldn't access it apart from God. It was there, waiting to be discovered."

-Jamie Winship, Living Fearless: Exchanging the Lies of the World for the Liberating Truth of God

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17. Six Books on the Priesthood (Popular Patristics)

By: John Chrysostom

4.26

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

The stylistic brilliance of this work demonstrates the appropriateness of St John's title, "the gol… read more

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18. Hexaemeron

By: Basil the Great

3.97

Format: 178 pages, Paperback

The term Hexameron refers either to the genre of theological treatise that describes God's work on … read more

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  • theology
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19. On Marriage and Family Life (Popular Patristics) (English and Ancient Greek Edition)

By: John Chrysostom

4.43

Format: 110 pages, Paperback

Christian tradition often seems to give only grudging approval to the married life, particularly it… read more

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20. The Catechetical Lectures of St. Cyril of Jerusalem

By: Cyril of Jerusalem

4.33

Format: 347 pages, Kindle Edition

The famous Catechetical Lectures of Cyril, archbishop of Jerusalem, are a series of 23 addresses St… read more

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21. Christ the Educator (Fathers of the Church)

By: Clement of Alexandria

3.55

Format: 309 pages, Hardcover

Paedagogus, The Instructor, was the second in the trilogy of Clement of Alexandria. Having laid a f… read more

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"For, in a word, if one thinks himself made beautiful by gold, he is inferior to gold; and he that is inferior to gold is not lord of it."

-Clement of Alexandria, Christ the Educator (Fathers of the Church)

"Our superintendence in instruction and discipline is the office of the Word, from whom we learn frugality and humility, and all that pertains to love of truth, love of humanity, and love of excellenc…"

-Clement of Alexandria, Christ the Educator (Fathers of the Church)

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22. On the Duties of the Clergy

By: Ambrose of Milan

4.09

Format: 184 pages, Paperback

This edition of Ambrose's "On the Duties of the Clergy" was translated by Rev. H. De Romestrin with… read more

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23. Ideas

By: Edmund Husserl

4.07

Format: None pages, Paperback

Presents Husserl's transcendental phenomenology in which he seeks to found an a priori science in w… read more

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24. Theophilus to Autolycus

By: Theophilus of Antioch

3.54

Format: 146 pages, None

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge … read more

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"Muéstrame a tu Dios, yo te diré a mi vez: muéstrame tú al hombre que hay en ti."

-Theophilus of Antioch, Theophilus to Autolycus

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25. Against the Heresies 1 (Ancient Christian Writers)

By: Irenaeus of Lyons

4.04

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

This work, which establishes Irenaeus as the most important of the theologians of the second centur… read more

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"Esiste un certo pro-Principio regale, pro-privo di intelligibilità, pro-privo di sostanza e pro-dotato di rotondità, che chiamiamo Zucca. Con questa Zucca coesiste una potenza che chiamiamo anche Sup…"

-Irenaeus of Lyons, Against the Heresies 1 (Ancient Christian Writers)

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26. Tatian's Address To The Greeks

By: Tatian the Assyrian

3.40

Format: None pages, Paperback

Tatian's Address To The Greeks is a book written by Tatian, a second-century Christian apologist. T… read more

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"For the heavenly Logos, a spirit emanating from the Father and a Logos from the Logos-power, in imitation of the Father who begot Him made man an image of immortality, so that, as incorruption is wit…"

-Tatian the Assyrian, Tatian's Address To The Greeks

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27. The Prescription Against Heretics

By: Tertullian

3.94

Format: 68 pages, Paperback

The Prescription Against Heretics is a book written by Tertullian, a prominent early Christian writ… read more

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"Unhappy Aristotle! Who invented for these men dialectics, the art of building up and pulling down; an art so evasive in its propositions, so far-fetched in its conjectures, so harsh, in its arguments…"

-Tertullian, The Prescription Against Heretics

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28. Against Heresies 2

By: Irenaeus of Lyons

4.15

Format: 108 pages, Paperback

These arguments may, in like manner, be adapted to meet the case of all those who, in any way, main… read more

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"For it is not needful, to use a common proverb, that one should drink up the ocean who wishes to learn that its water is salt."

-Irenaeus of Lyons, Against Heresies 2

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29. On the Mysteries

By: Ambrose of Milan

4.02

Format: 19 pages, Kindle Edition

Bishop of Milan from 374 to 397; born probably 340, at Trier, Arles, or Lyons; died 4 April, 397. H… read more

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30. Against Heresies 3

By: Irenaeus of Lyons

4.31

Format: 94 pages, Paperback

It follows then, as of course, that these men must either receive the rest of his narrative, or els… read more

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Cover of What It Means to Be Protestant: The Case for an Always-Reforming Church by Gavin Ortlund

31. What It Means to Be Protestant: The Case for an Always-Reforming Church

By: Gavin Ortlund

4.66

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

These days many evangelicals are exploring the more sacramental, liturgical, and historically-consc… read more

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