12 must-read theology books like Natural Law: A Lutheran Reappraisal by Robert C. Baker

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Natural Law: A Lutheran Reappraisal

By: Robert C. Baker

4.18

Format: 302 pages, Paperback

Greek Stoic philosophers. Roman legislators. The Early Church Fathers. Thomas Aquinas. The concept …

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1. I Trust When Dark My Road: A Lutheran View of Depression

By: Todd A. Peperkorn

4.50

Format: 102 pages, Paperback

Delving into the somewhat taboo topic of clergy and mental illness, this 100-page book published by… read more

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"How did I get to the place where I would be considering that darkest of all escapes — suicide — on the day when we commemorate our Lord’s death for us all? That is the question this story seeks to an…"

-Todd A. Peperkorn, I Trust When Dark My Road: A Lutheran View of Depression

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2. Law & Gospel: How to Read & Apply the Bible

By: C.F.W. Walther

4.71

Format: 514 pages, Hardcover

The treatise on the Lutheran understanding of Law and Gospel. read more

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"If the teaching of Christ were a law, it would not be a gospel {glad tiding}, but a sad tiding."

-C.F.W. Walther, Law & Gospel: How to Read & Apply the Bible

"The Gospel does not say, "you must do good works." Rather, it fashions us into human beings, into creatures who cannot help serve God and fellow human beings. Without a doubt, a precious effect!"

-C.F.W. Walther, Law & Gospel: How to Read & Apply the Bible

"We see that the law was not reveal to us to put a notion into our heads that we could become righteous by it, but to teach us that we are completely unable to fulfill the law. Then we will know what …"

-C.F.W. Walther, Law & Gospel: How to Read & Apply the Bible

"The main thing to tell a person when you explain how to become righteous is to announce to him for free grace of God, concealing nothing, saying none other than what God says in the Gospel. Build a f…"

-C.F.W. Walther, Law & Gospel: How to Read & Apply the Bible

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3. The Presence: An Approach to the Holy Communion

By: Berthold Von Schenk

4.39

Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition

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4. The Three Musketeers

By: Alexandre Dumas , Richard Pevear , John Lee

4.09

Format: 625 pages, Paperback

First published in 1844, The Three Musketeers is the most famous of Alexandre Dumas' historical nov… read more

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"All for one and one for all."

-Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers

"Love is the most selfish of all the passions."

-Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers

"The merit of all things lies in their difficulty."

-Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers

"I do not cling to life sufficiently to fear death."

-Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers

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5. King Lear

By: William Shakespeare , William James Rolfe

3.91

Format: 338 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Shakespeare’s King Lear challenges us with the magnitude, intensity, and sheer duration of the pain… read more

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"Fortune love you."

-William Shakespeare, King Lear

"She is herself a dowry."

-William Shakespeare, King Lear

"All dark and comfortless."

-William Shakespeare, King Lear

"Nothing can come of nothing."

-William Shakespeare, King Lear

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6. Beowulf

By: Unknown , Seamus Heaney

3.49

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Composed toward the end of the first millennium, Beowulf is the elegiac narrative of the adventures… read more

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"Fate goes ever as fate must."

-Unknown, Beowulf

"Fate will unwind as it must!"

-Unknown, Beowulf

"Let whoever can win glory before death."

-Unknown, Beowulf

"We all know a boy can't daddy until his daddy's dead."

-Unknown, Beowulf

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7. Hammer of God

By: Bo Giertz , None , None , None

5.00

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

In this bestselling novel, three pastors learn the necessity of relying on God's grace. They fall s… read more

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8. 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

9. On the Incarnation

By: C.S. Lewis , Athanasius of Alexandria , None

3.29

Format: None pages, Paperback

A universally acknowledged masterpiece of fourth-century patristic theology. As C. S. Lewis observe… read more

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10. Gulliver’s Travels

By: Louis Rhead , Jonathan Swift , William Dean Howells , Robert DeMaria Jr.

3.58

Format: 306 pages, Paperback

A wickedly clever satire uses comic inversions to offer telling insights into the nature of man and… read more

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"Anlamadığınız bir insanı "delidir" diye nitelemek o kadar kolaydır ki!"

-Louis Rhead, Gulliver’s Travels

"we neither of us are able to deliver our conceptions in a manner intelligible to the other."

-Louis Rhead, Gulliver’s Travels

"معظم ابناء جلدتك هم أخبث سلالة من الحشرات المؤذية البغيضة التي سمحت لها الطبيعة بالزحف على وجخ الأرض"

-Louis Rhead, Gulliver’s Travels

"... a wife should be always a reasonable and agreeable companion, because she cannot always be young."

-Louis Rhead, Gulliver’s Travels

11. The Taming of the Shrew

By: William Shakespeare

3.78

Format: 438 pages,

Renowned as Shakespeare's most boisterous comedy, The Taming of the Shrew is the tale of two young … read more

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12. The Great Divide: A Lutheran Evaluation of Reformed Theology

By: Jordan B. Cooper

3.68

Format: 189 pages,

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13. 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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"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)

14. The Odyssey

By: Homer , Robert Fagles , Bernard Knox , E.V. Rieu , None

3.53

Format: 349 pages, Paperback

Literature's grandest evocation of life's journey, at once an ageless human story and an individual… read more

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15. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

By: Mark Twain

2.33

Format: None pages, Paperback

ENDURING LITERATURE ILLUMINATED BY PRACTICAL SCHOLARSHIP A nineteenth-century American travels back… read more

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16. 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)

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17. The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self: Cultural Amnesia, Expressive Individualism, and the Road to Sexual Revolution

By: Carl R. Trueman

4.57

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

Modern culture is obsessed with identity. Since the landmark Obergefell v. Hodges Supreme Court … read more

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"[I]n the work of the New Left one finds philosophical justification for what are now intuitive commonplaces of our culture: to be free is to be sexually liberated; to be happy is to be affirmed in th…"

-Carl R. Trueman, The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self: Cultural Amnesia, Expressive Individualism, and the Road to Sexual Revolution

"The expressive individual is now the sexually expressive individual. And education and socialization are to be marked not by the cultivation of traditional sexual interdicts and taboos but rather by …"

-Carl R. Trueman, The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self: Cultural Amnesia, Expressive Individualism, and the Road to Sexual Revolution

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18. Macbeth

By: William Shakespeare

3.89

Format: None pages, Paperback

What he hears will change everything. Egged on by his wife, he decides to kill in order to gain the… read more

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"What, you egg?"

-William Shakespeare, Macbeth

"What's done, is done"

-William Shakespeare, Macbeth

"What's done cannot be undone."

-William Shakespeare, Macbeth

"And nothing is, but what is not."

-William Shakespeare, Macbeth

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19. Surviving the Storms: Memoirs of David P. Scaer

By: David P. Scaer

4.32

Format: 475 pages, Kindle Edition

Like a memoir, it contains the memories of David Scaer; like a biography, much of the reflections a… read more

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20. Liturgical Worship: A Lutheran Introduction

By: Jordan B Cooper

4.61

Format: 140 pages, Paperback

Liturgical worship is often viewed as nothing more than an outdated tradition, or a series of meani… read more

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21. Christian Apologetics: A Lutheran Introduction

By: Nathan Greeley

4.57

Format: 132 pages, Paperback

In this day and age, the truth of Christianity is rarely taken for granted. Many are outright skept… read more

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22. Two Natures in Christ

By: Martin Chemnitz

4.53

Format: 542 pages, Hardcover

This is a translation of Chemnitz's De Duabus Naturis in Christo, written in 1578. This book concer… read more

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23. Concordia: The Lutheran Confessions-A Readers Edition of the Book of Concord - 2nd edition: A Reader's Edition of the Book of Concord

By: Concordia Publishing House

4.76

Format: 794 pages, Kindle Edition

Nothing is more important than clearly confessing and bearing witness to the truths of God's Word, … read more

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24. Lives and Writings of the Great Fathers of the Lutheran Church

By: Concordia Publishing House

4.43

Format: 322 pages, Kindle Edition

The wisdom and biblical teaching of the early Lutheran Church has been locked away in German and La… read more

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25. Natural Law: A Lutheran Reappraisal

By: Robert C. Baker

4.18

Format: 302 pages, Paperback

Greek Stoic philosophers. Roman legislators. The Early Church Fathers. Thomas Aquinas. The concept … read more

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26. In Defense of the True, the Good, and the Beautiful: On the Loss of Transcendence and the Decline of the West

By: Jordan Cooper

4.40

Format: 210 pages, Paperback

The modern Western world is full of confusion. Divides over religion, politics, and ethics continue… read more

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27. Liturgical Worship: A Lutheran Introduction

By: Jordan Cooper

4.65

Format: 136 pages, Kindle Edition

Liturgical worship is often viewed as nothing more than an outdated tradition, or a series of meani… read more

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28. Confessional Lutheran Dogmatics: The Holy Trinity

By: Carl L. Beckwith

4.70

Format: 548 pages, Kindle Edition

This dogmatic resource is based upon the outline and thought pattern of the Lutheran Confessions. T… read more

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29. Anatomy Of An Explosion: A Theological Analysis of the Missouri Synod Conflict

By: Kurt E. Marquart

4.35

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

None read more

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30. The Doctrine of Justification

By: Matthias Loy

4.89

Format: 134 pages, Paperback

The doctrine of justification, the "chief article of the Christian faith," is of paramount importan… read more

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31. The Lord's Supper

By: John R. Stephenson

4.45

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

This dogmatic resource is based upon the outline and thought pattern of the Lutheran Confessions. T… read more

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"Since the initial bestowal of the forgiveness of sins coincides with the fallen creature's passage from spiritual death to eternal life, both it and its renewal in absolution and Holy communion are i…"

-John R. Stephenson, The Lord's Supper

"In modern church life, we often leave the nave to have "fellowship" with one another at social functions in the basement, and we are sometimes invited to "fun and fellowship" at games nights or congr…"

-John R. Stephenson, The Lord's Supper

"Heaven's eucharistic irruption into earthly space and time prompted classical Lutheranism not to join the Reformed and Anabaptists in their campaign of iconoclasm which rendered Christian churches li…"

-John R. Stephenson, The Lord's Supper

15 Top theology books like Confessional Lutheran Dogmatics: The Holy Trinity by Carl L. Beckwith

Transform Your Habits

I Trust When Dark My Road: A Lutheran View of Depression

Todd A. Peperkorn

4.50

Transform Your Habits

Christ-Centered Preaching: Redeeming the Expository Sermon

Bryan Chapell

4.29

Transform Your Habits

Law & Gospel: How to Read & Apply the Bible

C.F.W. Walther

4.71

Transform Your Habits

Hammer of God

Bo Giertz , None , None , None

5.00

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