13 Top theology books like I Was A Stranger: A Christian Theology of Hospitality by Arthur Sutherland

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I Was A Stranger: A Christian Theology of Hospitality

By: Arthur Sutherland

3.52

Format: 100 pages, Paperback

Arthur Sutherland places before us our fear of meeting the "other" and the "stranger" in an increas…

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1. Art of Reading Scripture

By: Richard B. Hays , Ellen F. Davis

4.03

Format: 354 pages, Paperback

The difficulty of interpreting the Bible is felt all over today. Is the Bible still authoritative f… read more

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Cover of Making Room: Recovering Hospitality as a Christian Tradition by Christine D. Pohl

2. Making Room: Recovering Hospitality as a Christian Tradition

By: Christine D. Pohl

4.15

Format: 205 pages, Paperback

Although hospitality was central to Christian identity and practice in earlier centuries, our gener… read more

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Cover of The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (Chronicles of Narnia, #3) by C.S. Lewis, Pauline Baynes

3. The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (Chronicles of Narnia, #3)

By: C.S. Lewis , Pauline Baynes

4.09

Format: 248 pages, Hardcover

NARNIA... the world of wicked dragons and magic spells, where the very best is brought out of even … read more

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"Courage, dear heart."

-C.S. Lewis, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (Chronicles of Narnia, #3)

"Adventures are never fun while you're having them."

-C.S. Lewis, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (Chronicles of Narnia, #3)

"Extraordinary things only happen to extraordinary people."

-C.S. Lewis, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (Chronicles of Narnia, #3)

"There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it."

-C.S. Lewis, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (Chronicles of Narnia, #3)

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4. Unclean: Meditations on Purity, Hospitality, and Mortality

By: Richard Beck

4.40

Format: 212 pages, Paperback

"I desire mercy, not sacrifice." Echoing Hosea, Jesus defends his embrace of the "unclean" in the G… read more

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"The danger of refusing to reflect upon the psychological dynamics of faith and belief is that what we feel to be self evidently true, for psychological reasons, might be, upon inspection, highly ques…"

-Richard Beck, Unclean: Meditations on Purity, Hospitality, and Mortality

"In short, the Lord's Supper was the realization of new social and political arrangements, the embodiment of the social leveling seen in Jesus' ministry, most profoundly in his acts of table fellowshi…"

-Richard Beck, Unclean: Meditations on Purity, Hospitality, and Mortality

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5. The Great Divorce

By: C.S. Lewis

4.31

Format: 146 pages, Paperback

Alternative cover for ISBN: 978-0-00-746123-3 C.S. Lewis’ The Great Divorce is a classic Christi… read more

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"Reality is harsh to the feet of shadows. But will you come?"

-C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce

"Good, as it ripens, becomes continually more different not only from evil but from other good."

-C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce

"There is but one good; that is God. Everything else is good when it looks to Him and bad when it turns from Him."

-C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce

"I cannot love a lie," said the Lady. "I cannot love the thing which is not. I am in Love, and out of it I will not go."

-C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce

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6. The Last Battle (Chronicles of Narnia, #7)

By: C.S. Lewis

4.01

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

For the first time, an edition of Lewis's classic fantasy fiction packaged specifically for adults.… read more

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"My sister Susan,"

-C.S. Lewis, The Last Battle (Chronicles of Narnia, #7)

"Do you think I care if Aslan dooms me to death?"

-C.S. Lewis, The Last Battle (Chronicles of Narnia, #7)

". . .[W]e have all been blind. We are only beginning to see. . . ."

-C.S. Lewis, The Last Battle (Chronicles of Narnia, #7)

"But courage, child: we are all between the paws of the true Aslan."

-C.S. Lewis, The Last Battle (Chronicles of Narnia, #7)

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7. Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community

By: Dietrich Bonhoeffer

4.27

Format: 122 pages, Paperback

After his martyrdom at the hands of the Gestapo in 1945, Dietrich Bonhoeffer continued his witness … read more

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"God is not a God of the emotions but the God of truth."

-Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community

"We pray for the big things and forget to give thanks for the ordinary, small (and yet really not small) gifts."

-Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community

"It is only when he is a burden that another person is really a brother and not merely an object to be manipulated"

-Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community

"The Church does not need brilliant personalities but faithful servants of Jesus and the brethren. Not in the former but in the latter is the lack."

-Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community

8. 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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9. Prince Caspian (Chronicles of Narnia, #2)

By: C.S. Lewis

3.98

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Illustrations in this ebook appear in vibrant full color on a full color ebook device, and in rich … read more

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"The help will come,"

-C.S. Lewis, Prince Caspian (Chronicles of Narnia, #2)

"I don't want to hold you hand!"

-C.S. Lewis, Prince Caspian (Chronicles of Narnia, #2)

"Things never happen the same way twice."

-C.S. Lewis, Prince Caspian (Chronicles of Narnia, #2)

"And the feasts on the poop and the musicians."

-C.S. Lewis, Prince Caspian (Chronicles of Narnia, #2)

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10. Getting Involved with God: Rediscovering the Old Testament

By: Ellen F. Davis

4.22

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

This is a book about getting, and staying, involved with God what it takes, what it costs, what it … read more

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11. The Gift of Being Yourself: The Sacred Call to Self-Discovery

By: David G. Benner

3.89

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Recipient of the Award of Merit in the Personal Growth/Individual Category of The Word Guild 2005 C… read more

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12. 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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13. The Horse and His Boy (Chronicles of Narnia, #5)

By: C.S. Lewis

3.91

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

The Horse and his Boy is a stirring and dramatic fantasy story that finds a young boy named Shasta … read more

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"Do not dare not to dare."

-C.S. Lewis, The Horse and His Boy (Chronicles of Narnia, #5)

"No one can teach riding so well as a horse"

-C.S. Lewis, The Horse and His Boy (Chronicles of Narnia, #5)

"Even a walk will get us somewhere sometime."

-C.S. Lewis, The Horse and His Boy (Chronicles of Narnia, #5)

"Onward and Upward! To Narnia and the North!"

-C.S. Lewis, The Horse and His Boy (Chronicles of Narnia, #5)

14. The Case for the Psalms: Why They Are Essential

By: N.T. Wright

3.81

Format: None pages, Hardcover

One of the world's most trusted Bible scholars, N. T. Wright turns his attention to the central col… read more

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15. The Wolf Shall Dwell With the Lamb: A Spirituality for Leadership in a Multicultural Community

By: Eric H.F. Law

3.69

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

This groundbreaking work explores how certain cultures consciously and unconsciously dominate in mu… read more

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

By: Dane C. Ortlund

4.52

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Christians know that God loves them, but often think that he is perpetually disappointed and frustr… read more

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"Looking inside ourselves, we can anticipate only harshness from heaven. Looking out to Christ, we can anticipate only gentleness."

-Dane C. Ortlund, Gentle and Lowly: The Heart of Christ for Sinners and Sufferers

"The fall also entrenched in our minds dark thoughts of God, thoughts that are only dug out over multiple exposures to the gospel over many years. Perhaps Satan’s greatest victory in your life today i…"

-Dane C. Ortlund, Gentle and Lowly: The Heart of Christ for Sinners and Sufferers

"John's point in 13:1 is that in going to the cross, Jesus did not retain something for himself, the way we tend to do when we seek to love others sacrificially. He does not love like us. We love unti…"

-Dane C. Ortlund, Gentle and Lowly: The Heart of Christ for Sinners and Sufferers

"It is one thing, as a child, to be told your father loves you. You believe him. You take him at his word. But it is another thing, unutterably more real, to be swept up in his embrace, to feel the wa…"

-Dane C. Ortlund, Gentle and Lowly: The Heart of Christ for Sinners and Sufferers

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17. The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism

By: Tim Alberta

4.45

Format: 506 pages, Kindle Edition

Evangelical Christians are perhaps the most polarizing—and least understood—people living in Americ… read more

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18. Churches Cultures and Leadership: A Practical Theology of Congregations and Ethnicities

By: Mark Lau Branson

3.79

Format: 275 pages, None

As the church continues to hear and heed Christ's call to reflect the multiethnic character of his … read more

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19. Charity Detox: What Charity Would Look Like If We Cared About Results

By: Robert D. Lupton

3.91

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

In his previous book Toxic Charity, Robert D. Lupton revealed the truth about modern charity progra… read more

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"It is beginning to dawn on the world of compassion that the root causes of poverty can be addressed effectively only through development, not through one-way giving."

-Robert D. Lupton, Charity Detox: What Charity Would Look Like If We Cared About Results

"I have begun to publicly declare that the only thing that will enable the poor to emerge from poverty is a decent job. And the primary creators of decent jobs are businesspeople who believe deeply in…"

-Robert D. Lupton, Charity Detox: What Charity Would Look Like If We Cared About Results

"Helping strategies, if indeed they are to be ultimately helpful, demand careful examination of long-term implications. There is no guarantee that unexamined charity will have a redemptive outcome sim…"

-Robert D. Lupton, Charity Detox: What Charity Would Look Like If We Cared About Results

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20. I Was A Stranger: A Christian Theology of Hospitality

By: Arthur Sutherland

3.52

Format: 100 pages, Paperback

Arthur Sutherland places before us our fear of meeting the "other" and the "stranger" in an increas… read more

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Cover of Refuge Reimagined: Biblical Kinship in Global Politics by Mark R. Glanville

21. Refuge Reimagined: Biblical Kinship in Global Politics

By: Mark R. Glanville

4.43

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

The global crisis of forced displacement is growing every year. At the same time, Western Christian… read more

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7 best-selling classics books like The Great Divorce by C.S. Lewis

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Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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