Opening Israel's Scriptures
By: Ellen F. Davis
4.58
Format: 464 pages, Paperback
Opening Israel's Scriptures is a collection of thirty-six essays on the Hebrew Bible, from Genesis …
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1. Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
By: Annie Dillard
4.08
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
An exhilarating meditation on nature and its seasons—a personal narrative highlighting one year's e… read more
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"Innocence is a better world."-Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
"The creatures I seek do not want to be seen."-Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
"I never saw a tree that was no tree in particular."-Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
"I am a fugitive and a vagabond, a sojourner seeking signs."-Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
2. Ruthless Trust: The Ragamuffin's Path to God
By: Brennan Manning , Richard J. Foster
4.34
Format: 190 pages, Paperback
In his sequel to The Ragamuffin Gospel bestselling author Brennan Manning shows how true and radi… read more
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- spirituality
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"The splendor of a human heart that trusts it is loved unconditionally gives God more pleasure than Westminster Cathedral, the Sistine Chapel, Beethoven’s “Ninth Symphony"-Brennan Manning, Ruthless Trust: The Ragamuffin's Path to God
"The way of trust is a movement into obscurity, into the undefined, into ambiguity, not into some predetermined, clearly delineated plan for the future. The next step discloses itself only out of a di…"-Brennan Manning, Ruthless Trust: The Ragamuffin's Path to God
"When the farmer arises in the morning unreconciled to get out of bed, he feels no anxiety that he has wasted time through his sleep; au contraire, he is confident that the seed has continued to grow …"-Brennan Manning, Ruthless Trust: The Ragamuffin's Path to God
3. The Crucifixion: Understanding the Death of Jesus Christ
By: Fleming Rutledge
4.13
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Though the apostle Paul boldly proclaimed "Christ crucified" as the heart of the gospel, Fleming Ru… read more
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- theology
4. 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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- christian
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5. The Blue Parakeet: Rethinking How You Read the Bible
By: Scot McKnight
4.82
Format: 174 pages, Hardcover
"Why Can't I Just Be a Christian?" Parakeets make delightful pets. We cage them or clip their wings… read more
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6. The Weight of Glory
By: C.S. Lewis
4.38
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
The classic Weight of Glory by C.S. Lewis, the most important Christian writer of the 20th century,… read more
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"He who has God and everything else has no more than he who has God only."-C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory
"Never, in peace or war, commit your virtue or your happiness to the future."-C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory
"Have courage, dear heart, for there is nothing to be afraid of and never has been."-C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory
"Next to the Blessed Sacrament itself, your neighbor is the holiest object presented to your senses."-C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory
7. The Way of the Heart: The Spirituality of the Desert Fathers and Mothers
By: Henri J.M. Nouwen
3.94
Format: 489 pages, Paperback
Henry J.M. Nouwen, one of the greatest of all spiritual writers, invites us to search deeply for th… read more
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8. Biblical Preaching: The Development and Delivery of Expository Messages
By: Haddon W. Robinson
4.19
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Haddon Robinson's classic, with more than 150,000 in print, is a lesson in the basics. This updated… read more
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9. Gilead (Gilead, #1)
By: Marilynne Robinson
3.85
Format: 247 pages, Paperback
Nearly 25 years after Housekeeping, Marilynne Robinson returns with an intimate tale of three gener… read more
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"How I wish you could have known me in my strength."-Marilynne Robinson, Gilead (Gilead, #1)
"Memory can make a thing seem to have been much more than it was."-Marilynne Robinson, Gilead (Gilead, #1)
"When something ought to be true then it proves to be a very powerful truth."-Marilynne Robinson, Gilead (Gilead, #1)
"That is to say, I pray for you. And there's an intimacy in it. That's the truth."-Marilynne Robinson, Gilead (Gilead, #1)
10. The Sin of Certainty: Why God Desires Our Trust More Than Our "Correct" Beliefs
By: Peter Enns
3.91
Format: 241 pages, Hardcover
The controversial evangelical Bible scholar and author of The Bible Tells Me Soexplains how Christi… read more
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11. The Old Testament Is Dying: A Diagnosis and Recommended Treatment
By: Brent A. Strawn
3.95
Format: 260 pages, Paperback
The Old Testament comprises the majority of the Christian Bible and provides much of the language o… read more
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12. The Pastor: A Memoir
By: Eugene H. Peterson
4.23
Format: 121 pages, Hardcover
In The Pastor, author Eugene Peterson, translator of the multimillion-selling The Message, tells th… read more
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13. How Should We Then Live? The Rise and Decline of Western Thought and Culture
By: Francis A. Schaeffer
3.56
Format: None pages, Paperback
In dit boek, dat ontstaan is naar aanleiding van de gelijknamige televisie serie, neemt de auteur o… read more
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14. 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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15. My First Summer in the Sierra
By: John Muir
3.97
Format: 68 pages, Paperback
In the summer of 1869, John Muir, a young Scottish immigrant, joined a crew of shepherds in the foo… read more
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16. Home (Gilead, #2)
By: Marilynne Robinson
3.84
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Home parallels the story told in Robinson's Pulitzer Prize-winning Gilead. It is a moving and heali… read more
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17. Dominion and Dynasty: A Theology of the Hebrew Bible
By: Stephen G. Dempster
3.95
Format: 253 pages, Paperback
In this stimulating New Studies in Biblical Theology volume, Stephen G. Dempster argues that, despi… read more
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18. Lila (Gilead, #3)
By: Marilynne Robinson
4.50
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Marilynne Robinson, one of the greatest novelists of our time, returns to the town of Gilead in an … read more
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19. The Rule of Saint Benedict
By: Benedict of Nursia , None
3.22
Format: 111 pages, Paperback
Composed nearly fifteen hundred years ago by the father of Western monasticism, The Rule of St. Ben… read more
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20. In the Name of Jesus: Reflections on Christian Leadership
By: Henri J.M. Nouwen
3.24
Format: 324 pages, Paperback
Henri Nouwen was a spiritual thinker with an unusual capacity to write about the life of Jesus and … read more
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21. For the Life of the World: Sacraments and Orthodoxy
By: Alexander Schmemann
3.75
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
An approach to the world and to life that stems from the liturgical experience of the Orthodox Chur… read more
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22. God Has a Name
By: John Mark Comer
4.67
Format: 523 pages,
Many of us ache for relationship with God, yet feel distant and disconnected from him. As if he's m… read more
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23. Jesus and the Disinherited
By: Vincent Harding , Howard Thurman
4.57
Format: 140 pages, Paperback
In this classic theological treatise, the acclaimed theologian and religious leader Howard Thurman … read more
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24. 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
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- theology
25. Lost in Thought: The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life
By: Zena Hitz
3.65
Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition
An invitation to readers from every walk of life to rediscover the impractical splendors of a life … read more
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"The idea that real and serous learning is something practiced only by a small elite is stubborn and hard to displace."-Zena Hitz, Lost in Thought: The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life
"For those of us without the strength or the insight to choose for ourselves such quiet, withdrawn places, failure is perhaps the best-trod route to inwardness."-Zena Hitz, Lost in Thought: The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life
26. Fifty-Two Stories
By: Anton Chekhov
4.28
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
From the celebrated, award-winning translators of Anna Karenina and War and Peace a lavish, masterf… read more
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27. He Held Radical Light: The Art of Faith, the Faith of Art
By: Christian Wiman
4.28
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
A moving meditation on memory, oblivion, and eternity by one of our most celebrated poets What i… read more
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"The hunger that gives rise to art must be greater than what art can satisfy."-Christian Wiman, He Held Radical Light: The Art of Faith, the Faith of Art
28. 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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29. Being Human: Bodies, Minds, Persons
By: Rowan Williams
4.17
Format: 125 pages, Paperback
What is consciousness? Is the mind a machine? What makes each of us a person? How do our bodies rel… read more
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30. Opening Israel's Scriptures
By: Ellen F. Davis
4.58
Format: 464 pages, Paperback
Opening Israel's Scriptures is a collection of thirty-six essays on the Hebrew Bible, from Genesis … read more
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31. A Week in the Life of a Greco-Roman Woman
By: Holly Beers
4.12
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
In first-century Ephesus, life is not easy for women. A young wife meets her daily struggles with e… read more
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