19 Top nonfiction books like The Economics of the Parables by Robert Sirico

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The Economics of the Parables

By: Robert Sirico

3.92

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Timeless and moral economic wisdom for life's choices and changes derived from the parables of the …

If you liked the nonfiction plot in The Economics of the Parables by Robert Sirico , here is a list of 19 books like this:

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1. Live Like a Narnian: Christian Discipleship in Lewis's Chronicles

By: Joe Rigney

4.40

Format: 184 pages, Paperback

In Live Like a Narnian Joe Rigney shows that Owen Barfield was right—What C.S. Lewis thought about … read more

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  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • theology
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2. What's Wrong with the World

By: G.K. Chesterton

4.04

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

In the aptly titled treatise What's Wrong With the World , one of the twentieth century's most memo… read more

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  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • catholic
  • theology
"A head can be beaten small enough until it fits the hat."

-G.K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World

"Our political vagueness divides men, it does not fuse them."

-G.K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World

"This cult of the future is not only a weakness but a cowardice of the age."

-G.K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World

"Thrift is poetic because it is creative; waste is unpoetic because it is waste."

-G.K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World

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3. 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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  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • catholic
  • theology
"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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4. That Hideous Strength (Space Trilogy, #3)

By: C.S. Lewis

3.81

Format: 4 pages, Paperback

Written during the dark hours immediately before and during the Second World War, C. S. Lewis's Spa… read more

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5. Orthodoxy

By: G.K. Chesterton

4.11

Format: 528 pages, Paperback

Chesterton (The Man Who Knew Too Much) capped his brilliant literary career with this exploration o… read more

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  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • theology
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6. Out of the Silent Planet (The Space Trilogy, #1)

By: C.S. Lewis

3.93

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

In the first novel of C.S. Lewis's classic science fiction trilogy, Dr Ransom, a Cambridge academic… read more

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  • religion
"The love of knowledge is a kind of madness."

-C.S. Lewis, Out of the Silent Planet (The Space Trilogy, #1)

"A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered."

-C.S. Lewis, Out of the Silent Planet (The Space Trilogy, #1)

"There I drank life because death was in the pool. That was the best of drinks save one."

-C.S. Lewis, Out of the Silent Planet (The Space Trilogy, #1)

"And I say also this. I do not think the forest would be so bright, nor the water so warm, nor love so sweet, if there were no danger in the lakes."

-C.S. Lewis, Out of the Silent Planet (The Space Trilogy, #1)

7. Heretics

By: G.K. Chesterton

4.20

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

G. K. Chesterton, the "Prince of Paradox," is at his witty best in this collection of twenty essays… read more

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8. Delighting in the Trinity: An Introduction to the Christian Faith

By: Michael Reeves

3.71

Format: 224 pages,

In this brief and winsome book, Michael Reeves presents an introduction to the Christian faith that… read more

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9. Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary, together with Sellic Spell

By: J.R.R. Tolkien , Unknown , Christopher Tolkien

3.33

Format: 194 pages, ebook

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10. Grant

By: Ron Chernow

4.40

Format: 80 pages, Hardcover

Pulitzer Prize-winner and biographer of Alexander Hamilton, George Washington, and John D. Rockefel… read more

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11. The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex/Oedipus at Colonus/Antigone (The Theban Plays, #1–3)

By: Sophocles , Robert Fitzgerald , Dudley Fitts , None

5.00

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

(1939 translation) read more

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12. Engaging God's World: A Christian Vision of Faith, Learning, and Living

By: Cornelius Plantinga Jr.

3.92

Format: 314 pages, Paperback

The Bible admonishes Christians to love God with the mind as well as with the heart. Engaging God's… read more

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13. Perelandra (The Space Trilogy, #2)

By: C.S. Lewis

4.00

Format: 314 pages, Paperback

The second book in C. S. Lewis's acclaimed Space Trilogy, which also includes Out of the Silent Pla… read more

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"Say a child’s prayer if you can’t say a man’s."

-C.S. Lewis, Perelandra (The Space Trilogy, #2)

"It is not for nothing that you are named Ransom,"

-C.S. Lewis, Perelandra (The Space Trilogy, #2)

"The joy came from finding at last what hatred was made for."

-C.S. Lewis, Perelandra (The Space Trilogy, #2)

"About this time tomorrow, you will have done the impossible."

-C.S. Lewis, Perelandra (The Space Trilogy, #2)

14. The Book that Made Your World: How the Bible Created the Soul of Western Civilization

By: Vishal Mangalwadi , None

4.34

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Understand where we came from. Whether you're an avid student of the Bible or a skeptic of its rele… read more

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15. 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
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16. The War on the West

By: Douglas Murray

4.28

Format: 308 pages, Hardcover

An Instant New York Times Bestseller! China has concentration camps now. Why do Westerners claim… read more

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  • religion
  • nonfiction
"To delegitimize the West, it appears to be necessary first to demonize the people who still make up the racial majority in the West. It is necessary to demonize white people."

-Douglas Murray, The War on the West

"Race is now an issue in all Western countries in a way it has not been for decades. In the place of color blindness, we have been pushed into racial ultra-awareness. A deeply warped picture has now b…"

-Douglas Murray, The War on the West

"Like all societies in history, all Western nations have racism in their histories. But that is not the only history of our countries. Racism is not the sole lens through which our societies can be un…"

-Douglas Murray, The War on the West

"Historical criticism and rethinking are never a bad idea. However, the hunt for visible, tangible problems shouldn't become a hunt for invisible, intangible problems. Especially not if they are carri…"

-Douglas Murray, The War on the West

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17. King: A Life

By: Jonathan Eig

4.67

Format: 688 pages, Hardcover

The first full biography in decades, King mixes revelatory and exhaustive new research with brisk a… read more

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  • nonfiction
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18. Strange New World: How Thinkers and Activists Redefined Identity and Sparked the Sexual Revolution

By: Carl R. Trueman

4.50

Format: 204 pages, Paperback

From Philosophy to Technology, Tracing the Origin of Identity Politics How did the world arrive … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • theology
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19. A Thousand Ships

By: Natalie Haynes

4.07

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

This is the women’s war, just as much as it is the men’s. They have waited long enough for their tu… read more

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"If he tells me to sing one more time, I think I might bite him."

-Natalie Haynes, A Thousand Ships

"An artist constantly risks falling fully into chaos, instead of transforming it."

-Natalie Haynes, A Thousand Ships

"Because really, how many cannibalistic giants can one Greek plausibly meet as he sails the open seas?"

-Natalie Haynes, A Thousand Ships

"We are all human. That means there is something about our experience that is the same. Otherwise, we would not all be human."

-Natalie Haynes, A Thousand Ships

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20. Social Justice Fallacies

By: Thomas Sowell

4.45

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

In this instant New York Times bestseller, renowned economist Thomas Sowell demolishes the myths th… read more

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  • economics
  • nonfiction
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21. The Problem of Pain

By: C.S. Lewis

4.13

Format: 162 pages, Paperback

For centuries people have been tormented by one question above all: If God is good and all-powerful… read more

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  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • theology
"Man is to be understood only in his relation to God."

-C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain

"Nonsense remains nonsense even when we talk it about God."

-C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain

"Even if there were pains in Heaven, all who understand would desire them."

-C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain

"Now God, who has made us, knows what we are and that our happiness lies in Him."

-C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain

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22. Rejoice and Tremble: The Surprising Good News of the Fear of the Lord

By: Michael Reeves

4.38

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Fear is one of the strongest human emotions, and it is one that often baffles Christians. "The f… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • theology
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23. The Genesis of Gender: A Christian Theory

By: Abigail Rine Favale

4.59

Format: 248 pages, Paperback

The question of gender—who we are as men and women—has never been more pressing, or more misunderst… read more

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  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • catholic
  • theology
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24. Miracle and Wonder: Conversations with Paul Simon

By: Malcolm Gladwell

4.56

Format: None pages, Audiobook

What happens when Paul Simon, widely considered one of the greatest songwriters in music history, a… read more

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  • nonfiction
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25. How to Think about the Economy: A Primer

By: Per Bylund

4.39

Format: 121 pages, Kindle Edition

This little book was written to accomplish something economic literacy. It is intentionally kept v… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • economics
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26. 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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  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • theology
Cover of Crisis of Confidence: Reclaiming the Historic Faith in a Culture Consumed with Individualism and Identity by Carl R. Trueman

27. Crisis of Confidence: Reclaiming the Historic Faith in a Culture Consumed with Individualism and Identity

By: Carl R. Trueman

4.41

Format: 216 pages, Hardcover

Carl Trueman Analyzes How Ancient Creeds and Confessions Protect and Promote Biblical Christianity … read more

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  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • theology
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28. Breaking Bread with the Dead: A Reader's Guide to a More Tranquil Mind

By: Alan Jacobs

3.92

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

From the author of How to Think and The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction, a literary g… read more

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  • nonfiction
"When we look to the past ... what we are always looking for is whatever "is better than we are" ... The future cannot teach us because we are the ones who must imagine it."

-Alan Jacobs, Breaking Bread with the Dead: A Reader's Guide to a More Tranquil Mind

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29. Late Admissions: Confessions of a Black Conservative

By: Glenn C. Loury

4.26

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

A shockingly frank memoir from a prize-winning economist, reflecting on his remarkable personal ody… read more

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  • economics
  • nonfiction
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30. The Economics of the Parables

By: Robert Sirico

3.92

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Timeless and moral economic wisdom for life's choices and changes derived from the parables of the … read more

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  • theology
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • catholic
  • economics

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Live Like a Narnian: Christian Discipleship in Lewis's Chronicles

Joe Rigney

4.40

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What's Wrong with the World

G.K. Chesterton

4.04

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The Everlasting Man

G.K. Chesterton

4.16

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G.K. Chesterton

4.11

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Jonathan Lethem , G.K. Chesterton

2.67

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George MacDonald

3.48

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Andrew Peterson

4.33

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