The Historical Christ and the Theological Jesus
By: Dale C. Allison Jr.
4.07
Format: 136 pages, Paperback
Informally presents and evaluates complex--sometimes troubling--issues in scholarly discussion of J…
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1. Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why
By: Bart D. Ehrman
3.93
Format: 266 pages, Paperback
For almost 1,500 years, the New Testament manuscripts were copied by hand––and mistakes and intenti… read more
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- nonfiction
2. It Can't Happen Here
By: Sinclair Lewis , Christopher Hurt , Michael R. Meyer
3.78
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
The only one of Sinclair Lewis's later novels to match the power of Main Street, Babbitt, and Arrow… read more
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"NOW is a fact that cannot be dodged."-Sinclair Lewis, It Can't Happen Here
"So much in a revolution is nothing but waiting."-Sinclair Lewis, It Can't Happen Here
"It isn't what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class."-Sinclair Lewis, It Can't Happen Here
"Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on."-Sinclair Lewis, It Can't Happen Here
3. The Meaning of Life
By: Terry Eagleton
3.43
Format: 344 pages, Hardcover
The phrase "the meaning of life" for many seems a quaint notion fit for satirical mauling by Monty … read more
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- nonfiction
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4. The Meaning of Jesus
By: N.T. Wright , Marcus J. Borg
4.10
Format: 40 pages, Paperback
Was Jesus born of a virgin? Did he know he was the Messiah? Was he bodily resurrected from the dead… read more
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5. God's Problem: How the Bible Fails to Answer Our Most Important Question - Why We Suffer
By: Bart D. Ehrman
2.50
Format: 52 pages, Hardcover
In times of questioning and despair, people often quote the Bible to provide answers. Surprisingly,… read more
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6. The Sound and the Fury
By: William Faulkner
3.86
Format: 366 pages, Paperback
The tragedy of the Compson family features some of the most memorable characters in literature: bea… read more
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"I say money has no value; it's just the way you spend it."-William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury
"with that sort of gigantic delicacy of an elephant picking up a peanut."-William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury
"Caddy put her arms around me, and her shining veil, and I couldn't smell trees anymore and I began to cry."-William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury
"A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you'd think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune"-William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury
7. Arguing for Atheism: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion
By: Robin Le Poidevin
4.34
Format: 196 pages, Paperback
First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. read more
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8. How Jesus Became God: The Exaltation of a Jewish Preacher from Galilee
By: Bart D. Ehrman
3.87
Format: None pages,
New York Times bestselling author and Bible expert Bart Ehrman reveals how Jesus's divinity became … read more
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9. A Marginal Jew: Rethinking the Historical Jesus, Volume I - The Roots of the Problem and the Person
By: John P. Meier
3.88
Format: 373 pages, Hardcover
Entre otras arduas cuestiones en este libro se abordan algunas tan fundamentales como: ?fue Jesus c… read more
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10. White Holes
By: Carlo Rovelli
4.10
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
A mesmerizing trip to the strange world of white holes from the bestselling author of Seven Brief L… read more
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11. Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet
By: Hannah Ritchie
4.29
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
‘Truly essential’ MARGARET ATWOOD Feeling anxious, powerless or confused about the future of our p… read more
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12. Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient Roman World
By: Mary Beard
4.11
Format: 493 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping account of the social and political world of the Roman emperors by “the world’s most fam… read more
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13. God: An Anatomy
By: Francesca Stavrakopoulou
4.25
Format: 608 pages, Hardcover
An astonishing and revelatory history that re-presents God as he was originally envisioned by ancie… read more
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"How could I not be distracted? Here was a deity just like those I’d visited in museums as a child—a god of ancient myths, fantastic stories and long-lost rituals; a god from the distant past, from a …"-Francesca Stavrakopoulou, God: An Anatomy
14. Heaven and Hell: A History of the Afterlife
By: Bart D. Ehrman
4.06
Format: 327 pages, Hardcover
A New York Times bestselling historian of early Christianity takes on two of the most gripping ques… read more
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"It is impossible to overrate the importance of Homer on the culture and religion of ancient Greece. It is not that the Iliad and the Odyssey were “the Bible"-Bart D. Ehrman, Heaven and Hell: A History of the Afterlife
"The problem with material remains is that they are silent: they don't provide their own interpretations. And that means various interpretations are possible."-Bart D. Ehrman, Heaven and Hell: A History of the Afterlife
"The Old Testament says no word about either eternal bliss for the righteous dead or everlasting punishment for the wicked. The poets praise God, instead, for allowing them to stay alive for a while l…"-Bart D. Ehrman, Heaven and Hell: A History of the Afterlife
"The fear of death in antiquity differed from the terrors of torment or horrors of actual nonexistence experienced by so many in the West today. It was instead the dread of losing out on everything a …"-Bart D. Ehrman, Heaven and Hell: A History of the Afterlife
15. 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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- biography
- theology
- christianity
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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)
16. Tradition and Apocalypse: An Essay on the Future of Christian Belief
By: David Bentley Hart
4.11
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
In the two thousand years that have elapsed since the time of Christ, Christians have been as much … read more
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17. The Historical Christ and the Theological Jesus
By: Dale C. Allison Jr.
4.07
Format: 136 pages, Paperback
Informally presents and evaluates complex--sometimes troubling--issues in scholarly discussion of J… read more
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- nonfiction
18. Lamb of the Free: Recovering the Varied Sacrificial Understandings of Jesus's Death
By: Andrew Remington Rillera
4.69
Format: 356 pages, Paperback
Lamb of the Free analyzes the different sacrificial imagery applied to Jesus in the NT in light of … read more
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- theology
19. How the Gospels Became History: Jesus and Mediterranean Myths (Synkrisis)
By: M. David Litwa
4.14
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
A compelling comparison of the gospels and Greco-Roman mythology which shows that the gospels were … read more
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20. Atonement (Oxford Studies in Analytic Theology)
By: Eleonore Stump
4.48
Format: 560 pages, Hardcover
The doctrine of the atonement is the distinctive doctrine of Christianity. Over the course of many … read more
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21. The New Atheism, Myth, and History: The Black Legends of Contemporary Anti-Religion
By: Nathan Johnstone
4.85
Format: 453 pages, Kindle Edition
This book examines the misuse of history in New Atheism and militant anti-religion. It looks at how… read more
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