17 best-selling theology books like Texts of Terror (40th Anniversary Edition): Literary-Feminist Readings of Biblical Narratives by Phyllis Trible

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Texts of Terror (40th Anniversary Edition): Literary-Feminist Readings of Biblical Narratives

By: Phyllis Trible

4.57

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

In this seminal work of biblical studies, renowned scholar Phyllis Trible focuses on four variation…

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1. Money and Possessions: Interpretation: Resources for the Use of Scripture in the Church

By: Walter Brueggemann

4.38

Format: 396 pages, ebook

The Bible is rich with complex and diverse material on the topic of money and possessions. Indeed, … read more

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2. Sisters in the Wilderness: The Challenge of Womanist God-Talk

By: Delores S. Williams

4.33

Format: 297 pages, Paperback

In this landmark work of emerging African American womanist theology, Delores Williams finds in the… read more

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3. Martin the Warrior (Redwall, #6)

By: Brian Jacques

4.16

Format: 376 pages, Mass Market Paperback

On the shore of the Eastern Sea, in a cold stone fortress, a stoat named Badrang holds dozens of in… read more

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"Don't think about what you could have done, concentrate on what you plan to do; it is more useful."

-Brian Jacques, Martin the Warrior (Redwall, #6)

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4. Liturgy of the Ordinary: Sacred Practices in Everyday Life

By: Tish Harrison Warren

4.08

Format: 31 pages, Paperback

Many of us go through the day feeling like we don't have time for God. But God can become present t… read more

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5. The Prophetic Imagination

By: Walter Brueggemann

3.88

Format: 440 pages, Paperback

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6. Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory

By: Ben Macintyre

4.25

Format: 127 pages,

In 1943, from a windowless London basement office, two intelligence officers conceived a plan that … read more

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7. No Longer at Ease (The African Trilogy, #2)

By: Chinua Achebe

3.82

Format: 295 pages, Paperback

Obi Okonkwo is an idealistic young man who has now returned to Nigeria for a job in the civil servi… read more

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8. Reading the Women of the Bible: A New Interpretation of Their Stories

By: Tikva Frymer-Kensky

4.50

Format: 142 pages, Paperback

Reading the Women of the Bible takes up two of the most significant intellectual and religious issu… read more

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9. She Who Is: The Mystery of God in Feminist Theological Discourse

By: Elizabeth A. Johnson

4.08

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Winner of the Louisville Grawemeyer Award in Religion. This classic explains what feminist theology… read more

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10. Everyone Is Beautiful

By: Katherine Center

5.00

Format: 172 pages, Hardcover

Lanie Coates's life is spinning out of control. She's piled everything she owns into a U-Haul and d… read more

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11. The Screwtape Letters

By: C.S. Lewis

4.27

Format: 222 pages, Kindle Edition

A Masterpiece of Satire on Hell’s Latest Novelties and Heaven’s Unanswerable Answer C.S. Lewis’s T… read more

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"It is always the novice who exaggerates."

-C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

"I do not expect old heads on young shoulders."

-C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

"For the Present is the point at which time touches eternity."

-C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

"Music. A meaningless acceleration in the rhythm of celestial experience."

-C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

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12. The Cross and the Lynching Tree

By: James H. Cone

4.51

Format: 202 pages, Hardcover

The cross and the lynching tree are the two most emotionally charged symbols in the history of the … read more

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"For [Martin Luther] King nonviolence was more than a strategy; it was the way of life defined by love for others—the only way to heal broken humanity."

-James H. Cone, The Cross and the Lynching Tree

"The gospel of Jesus is not a rational concept to be explained in a theory of salvation, but a story about God’s presence in Jesus’ solidarity with the oppressed, which led to his death on the cross. …"

-James H. Cone, The Cross and the Lynching Tree

"The cross and the lynching tree interpret each other. Both were public spectacles, shameful events, instruments of punishment reserved for the most despised people in society. Any genuine theology an…"

-James H. Cone, The Cross and the Lynching Tree

13. Reading Lolita in Tehran

By: Azar Nafisi

4.20

Format: 172 pages,

Every Thursday morning for two years in the Islamic Republic of Iran, a bold and inspired teacher n… read more

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14. All the Pretty Horses (The Border Trilogy, #1)

By: Cormac McCarthy

4.00

Format: 592 pages,

All the Pretty Horsestells of young John Grady Cole, the last of a long line of Texas ranchers. Acr… read more

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15. The Story of Christianity: Volume 2: The Reformation to the Present Day

By: Justo L. González

4.29

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

This highly informative, narrative history covers the events, persons, external influences, and for… read more

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16. 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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17. The 24th Hour (Women’s Murder Club, #24)

By: James Patterson

4.13

Format: 346 pages, Kindle Edition

Trouble always finds the Women's Murder Club... Sergeant Lindsay Boxer, Medical Examiner Claire … read more

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18. Poverty, by America

By: Matthew Desmond

4.27

Format: 284 pages, Hardcover

Reimagining the debate on poverty, making a new and bracing argument about why it persists in Ameri… read more

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"To live and strive in modern America is to participate in a series of morally fraught systems. If a family’s entire financial livelihood depends on the value of its home, it’s not hard to understand …"

-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America

"The rest of us, on the ·other hand-we members of the protected classes-have grown increasingly· dependent on our welfare programs. In 2020 the federal government spent more than $193 billion on homeo…"

-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America

"In her book The Government-Citizen Disconnect, the political scientist Suzanne Mettler reports that 96 percent of American adults have relied on a major government program at some point in their live…"

-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America

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19. The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth

By: Beth Allison Barr

4.40

Format: 245 pages, Paperback

Biblical womanhood--the belief that God designed women to be submissive wives, virtuous mothers, an… read more

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"Glorifying the past because we like the story better isn't history; it's propaganda."

-Beth Allison Barr, The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth

"When we differentiate women because of their sex, we objectify them and deny them their humanity."

-Beth Allison Barr, The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth

"Like racism, patriarchy is a shapeshifter—conforming to each new era, looking as if it has always belonged."

-Beth Allison Barr, The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth

"Historically, one of the greatest problems for women is that we do not remember our past and we do not work together to change our future. We do not stand together. But what if we did?"

-Beth Allison Barr, The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth

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20. Real Self-Care: A Transformative Program for Redefining Wellness (Crystals, Cleanses, and Bubble Baths Not Included)

By: Pooja Lakshmin

3.97

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From board-certified psychiatrist and women's mental health specialist Pooja Lakshmin, MD, comes a … read more

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21. The New Testament

By: David Bentley Hart

4.56

Format: 616 pages, Hardcover

From one of our most celebrated writers on religion comes this fresh, bold, and unsettling new tran… read more

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"This is all evidence, however, of a deeper truth about these texts: They are not beguiling exercises in suasive rhetoric or feats of literary virtuosity; rather, they are chiefly the devout and urgen…"

-David Bentley Hart, The New Testament

"Before embarking on this project, I doubt I ever truly properly appreciated precisely how urgent the various voices of the New Testament authors are, or how profound the provocations of what they wer…"

-David Bentley Hart, The New Testament

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22. For Thy Great Pain Have Mercy on My Little Pain

By: Victoria Mackenzie

3.85

Format: 166 pages, Hardcover

An astounding debut, both epic and intimate, about grief, trauma, revelation, and the hidden lives … read more

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"Sometimes I reworked, with much crossing out and burning of papers; I had to sift through my thoughts for words that gleamed with truth. But other times the words came fast, and then I was an arrow, …"

-Victoria Mackenzie, For Thy Great Pain Have Mercy on My Little Pain

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23. Battered Love: Marriage, Sex, and Violence in the Hebrew Prophets

By: Renita J. Weems

3.88

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

Weems's pioneering study explores the puzzling ways in which the Hebrew prophets' portrayals of div… read more

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24. Jesus and the Forces of Death: The Gospels' Portrayal of Ritual Impurity Within First-Century Judaism

By: Matthew Thiessen

4.53

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Although most people acknowledge that Jesus was a first-century Jew, interpreters of the Gospels of… read more

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25. My Body Is Not a Prayer Request: Disability Justice in the Church

By: Amy Kenny

4.20

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Much of the church has forgotten that we worship a disabled God whose wounds survived resurrection,… read more

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26. The Gospel of Mark: A Beginner's Guide to the Good News

By: Amy-Jill Levine

4.21

Format: 169 pages, Kindle Edition

Discover the Good News in the Bible’s earliest GospelWalk through the Bible’s earliest source for t… read more

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27. The New Testament in Its World: An Introduction to the History, Literature, and Theology of the First Christians

By: N.T. Wright

4.49

Format: 992 pages, Hardcover

Finally: an introduction that captures the excitement of the early Christians, helping today's read… read more

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28. Queer Theology: Beyond Apologetics

By: Linn Marie Tonstad

4.13

Format: 159 pages, Paperback

What do Christianity and queerness have to do with each other? Can Christianity be queered? Queer T… read more

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"The whole social order that separates people into the decent and indecent, that regulates accepted orders of bodily and economic exchange, is ruptured by a Christ who gave his life for all, but most …"

-Linn Marie Tonstad, Queer Theology: Beyond Apologetics

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29. Flood and Fury: Old Testament Violence and the Shalom of God

By: Matthew J. Lynch

4.29

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

What do we do with a God who sanctions violence? Old Testament violence proves one of the most trou… read more

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Cover of Luther the Reformer: The Story of the Man and His Career by James M. Kittelson

30. Luther the Reformer: The Story of the Man and His Career

By: James M. Kittelson

4.18

Format: 319 pages, Kindle Edition

For nearly thirty years, James M. Kittelson’s Luther the Reformer has been the standard biography o… read more

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31. Texts of Terror (40th Anniversary Edition): Literary-Feminist Readings of Biblical Narratives

By: Phyllis Trible

4.57

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

In this seminal work of biblical studies, renowned scholar Phyllis Trible focuses on four variation… read more

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