16 must-read christian books like A More Christlike Word: Reading Scripture the Emmaus Way by Bradley Jersak

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A More Christlike Word: Reading Scripture the Emmaus Way

By: Bradley Jersak

4.53

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

The Scriptures are an essential aspect of the Christian faith. But we have often equated them with …

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1. The Orthodox Church

By: Kallistos Ware , Timothy Ware

4.27

Format: 359 pages, Paperback

Since its first publication thirty years ago, Timothy Ware's book has become established throughout… read more

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"All Protestants are Crypto-Papists,’ wrote the Russian theologian Alexis Khomiakov to an English friend in the year 1846. ‘ . . . To use the concise language of algebra, all the West knows but one da…"

-Kallistos Ware, The Orthodox Church

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2. Wise Blood

By: Flannery O'Connor

3.83

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

(This is an alternate-cover edition for ISBN 9780374530631) The American short story master Flan… read more

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"Jesus died to redeem you,"

-Flannery O'Connor, Wise Blood

"It's easier to bleed than sweat, Mr. Motes."

-Flannery O'Connor, Wise Blood

"In yourself right now is all the place you've got."

-Flannery O'Connor, Wise Blood

"If you want to get anywhere in religion, you got to keep it sweet."

-Flannery O'Connor, Wise Blood

Cover of The Bible Tells Me So: Why Defending Scripture Has Made Us Unable to Read It by Joe Barrett, Peter Enns

3. The Bible Tells Me So: Why Defending Scripture Has Made Us Unable to Read It

By: Joe Barrett , Peter Enns

3.63

Format: 371 pages, Hardcover

The controversial Bible scholar and author of The Evolution of Adamrecounts his transformative spir… read more

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  • christian
  • theology
  • christianity
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
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4. Insurrection: To Believe Is Human To Doubt, Divine

By: Peter Rollins

2.62

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

In this incendiary new work, the controversial author and speaker Peter Rollins proclaims that the … read more

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  • christian
  • theology
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  • spirituality

5. The Prophetic Imagination

By: Walter Brueggemann

3.88

Format: 440 pages, Paperback

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  • theology
  • christianity
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality

6. Rooms

By: James L. Rubart

3.79

Format: 477 pages, Paperback

On a rainy spring day in Seattle, young software tycoon Micah Taylor receives a cryptic, twenty-fiv… read more

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7. Sinners in the Hands of a Loving God: The Scandalous Truth of the Very Good News

By: Brian Zahnd

3.78

Format: None pages, Paperback

Does God's Wrath Define Christianity? Or Does God's Love? In his famous sermon -Sinners in the Hand… read more

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8. Lilith

By: George MacDonald

3.75

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Lilith is a story concerning the nature of life, death, and salvation. After he followed the old ma… read more

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9. Immortal Diamond: The Search for Our True Self

By: Richard Rohr

3.50

Format: 424 pages,

In "Falling Upward "(and in many of his other teachings), Richard Rohr talked at length about ego (… read more

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10. A Church Called Tov: Forming a Goodness Culture That Resists Abuses of Power and Promotes Healing

By: Scot McKnight

4.34

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

What is the way forward for the church?Tragically, in recent years, Christians have gotten used to … read more

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  • christian
  • theology
  • christianity
  • religion
  • nonfiction
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11. Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived

By: Rob Bell

3.66

Format: 243 pages, Kindle Edition

Millions of Christians have struggled with how to reconcile God's love and God's judgment: Has God… read more

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"You turn the light on, you get all kinds of bugs."

-Rob Bell, Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived

"Forgiveness is unilateral. God isn’t waiting for us to get it together, to clean up, shape up, get up - God has already done it."

-Rob Bell, Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived

"...Jesus responds to almost every question he's asked with...a question. "What do you think? How do you read it?" he asks, again and again and again."

-Rob Bell, Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived

"Love demands freedom. It always has, and it always will. We are free to resist, reject, and rebel against God's ways for us. We can have all the hell we want."

-Rob Bell, Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived

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

By: John Mark Comer

4.63

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The author of the international bestseller The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry calls us to rediscover… read more

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  • christian
  • theology
  • christianity
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  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
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13. Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World

By: Tom Holland

4.26

Format: 624 pages, Hardcover

A "marvelous" (Economist) account of how the Christian Revolution forged the Western imagination. … read more

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  • christianity
  • christian
  • nonfiction
  • theology
"To hail a religion for its compatibility with a secular society was decidedly not a neutral gesture. Secularism was no less bred of the sweep of Christian history than were Orban's barbed-wire fences…"

-Tom Holland, Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World

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

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

By: Tyler Staton

4.60

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Prayer is the source of Jesus's most astonishing miracles and the subject of Jesus's most audacious… read more

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  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
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15. The Wood Between the Worlds: A Poetic Theology of the Cross

By: Brian Zahnd

4.53

Format: 216 pages, Hardcover

The cross is the heart of Scripture Everything about the gospel message leads to the cross, and pro… read more

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  • christian
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  • nonfiction
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Cover of Curveball: When Your Faith Takes Turns You Never Saw Coming (or How I Stumbled and Tripped My Way to Finding a Bigger God) by Peter Enns

16. Curveball: When Your Faith Takes Turns You Never Saw Coming (or How I Stumbled and Tripped My Way to Finding a Bigger God)

By: Peter Enns

4.36

Format: 239 pages, Kindle Edition

“Peter Enns is brilliant at taking the big topics, those Christian ideas that usually scare us or i… read more

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  • theology
  • christianity
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  • nonfiction
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"Does the God of Abraham look lovingly upon ancient cave drawings and temples dedicated to the only gods ancient humans could have known?"

-Peter Enns, Curveball: When Your Faith Takes Turns You Never Saw Coming (or How I Stumbled and Tripped My Way to Finding a Bigger God)

"Like a frail plant that needs careful tending and constant protection from sun and wind, perhaps the real problem wasn’t me but the fragile, unsustainable version of Christianity I had been told was …"

-Peter Enns, Curveball: When Your Faith Takes Turns You Never Saw Coming (or How I Stumbled and Tripped My Way to Finding a Bigger God)

"Placeholder theology is the very nature of theology. By it we acknowledge the human need to say something about ultimate meaning concerning the Creator and the creation while also understanding that …"

-Peter Enns, Curveball: When Your Faith Takes Turns You Never Saw Coming (or How I Stumbled and Tripped My Way to Finding a Bigger God)

"A God who does not connect to the world around us is a God who cannot speak to us. Believing in a God who demands that we continue to adopt only biblically ancient ways of thinking of God, which are …"

-Peter Enns, Curveball: When Your Faith Takes Turns You Never Saw Coming (or How I Stumbled and Tripped My Way to Finding a Bigger God)

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17. Grateful: The Transformative Power of Giving Thanks

By: Diana Butler Bass

3.82

Format: 256 pages, ebook

The Wilbur Award-winning book Grateful is now available in paperback and with an updated subtitle. … read more

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  • christianity
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
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18. When Everything's on Fire: Faith Forged from the Ashes

By: Brian Zahnd

4.46

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Is it possible to hold on to faith in an age of unbelief? Intellectual certainty has long been a co… read more

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"If we intend to purely think our way to God, the more likely result is crippling skepticism. As Kierkegaard pointed out, “When thinking turns toward itself in order to think about itself, there emerg…"

-Brian Zahnd, When Everything's on Fire: Faith Forged from the Ashes

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19. Rethinking Life: Embracing the Sacredness of Every Person

By: Shane Claiborne

4.49

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Drawing on Scripture, church history, and his own story, Shane Claiborne explores how a passion for… read more

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"Being in proximity makes a difference. Relationships make issues real and complicated and personal. Relationships move us from ideology to compassion. We can't love our neighbor if we don't know them…"

-Shane Claiborne, Rethinking Life: Embracing the Sacredness of Every Person

"To have a consistent ethic of life is to be comprehensive in our advocacy for life and to refuse to think of issues in isolation from each other. It is a fundamental conviction that every person is s…"

-Shane Claiborne, Rethinking Life: Embracing the Sacredness of Every Person

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20. A More Christlike Word: Reading Scripture the Emmaus Way

By: Bradley Jersak

4.53

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

The Scriptures are an essential aspect of the Christian faith. But we have often equated them with … read more

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  • spirituality
Cover of Unpunishable: Ending Our Love Affair with Punishment by Danny Silk

21. Unpunishable: Ending Our Love Affair with Punishment

By: Danny Silk

4.58

Format: None pages, ebook

Living with humans is messy. Our children make messes. Our spouses and friends make messes. So do o… read more

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15 Best religion books like A More Christlike Word: Reading Scripture the Emmaus Way by Bradley Jersak

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The Orthodox Church

Kallistos Ware , Timothy Ware

4.27

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Wise Blood

Flannery O'Connor

3.83

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The Bible Tells Me So: Why Defending Scripture Has Made Us Unable to Read It

Joe Barrett , Peter Enns

3.63

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Insurrection: To Believe Is Human To Doubt, Divine

Peter Rollins

2.62

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Gentle and Lowly: The Heart of Christ for Sinners and Sufferers

Dane C. Ortlund

4.52

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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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How to Walk into a Room: The Art of Knowing When to Stay and When to Walk Away

Emily P. Freeman

4.01

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Jennie Allen

4.24

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