15 best-selling theology books like God Transcendent by J. Gresham Machen

Cover of God Transcendent by J. Gresham Machen

God Transcendent

By: J. Gresham Machen

4.35

Format: 206 pages, Paperback

In these messages, Machen expounds the greatness and the glory of God, the wonder and power of the …

"In the Bible there is that which meets every need of man, which answers every mood, which speaks to every heart."

-J. Gresham Machen, God Transcendent

"It is quite useless to ask a man to adopt the Christian view of the gospel unless he first has the Christian view of sin."

-J. Gresham Machen, God Transcendent

"Christian prayer and Christian piety, we believe, are based only upon the faithfulness of the Christian message and to Him who is the substance of it."

-J. Gresham Machen, God Transcendent

"The Christian religion is no mere form of mysticism, but is founded upon a body of facts; the facts are recorded in the Bible; and if the supposed facts were not facts at all, then Christianity and the Bible would certainly sink into a common ruin."

-J. Gresham Machen, God Transcendent

If you liked the theology plot in God Transcendent by J. Gresham Machen , here is a list of 15 books like this:

Cover of Zeal without Burnout by Christopher Ash

1. Zeal without Burnout

By: Christopher Ash

4.27

Format: 125 pages, Hardcover

Practical and biblical guidance to help enthusiastic Christians serve Jesus in a sustainable way. L… read more

Similar categories in Christopher Ash's Zeal without Burnout book and J. Gresham Machen's God Transcendent

  • theology
"If we buy into the church culture of celebrity, we drift away from following Jesus faithfully."

-Christopher Ash, Zeal without Burnout

"There is always more we can do in ministry, but God is not asking 'Can you do more?'. He is asking 'Do you love me?' Some of those extras are not always as vital as we think them to be."

-Christopher Ash, Zeal without Burnout

"When you and I surrendered to Jesus as Lord, we did not offer Him the services of a divine, or even semi-divine creature to strengthen His kingdom; we offer Him the fragile, temporary, mortal, frail …"

-Christopher Ash, Zeal without Burnout

"As someone who has spent the last decade training young men and women for Christian service, I have been keen to help them see that the best kinds of ministry are, more often than not, long term and …"

-Christopher Ash, Zeal without Burnout

Cover of Defending the Faith: J. Gresham Machen and the Crisis of Conservative Protestantism in Modern America by D.G. Hart

2. Defending the Faith: J. Gresham Machen and the Crisis of Conservative Protestantism in Modern America

By: D.G. Hart

4.33

Format: None pages,

read more

Similar categories in D.G. Hart's Defending the Faith: J. Gresham Machen and the Crisis of Conservative Protestantism in Modern America book and J. Gresham Machen's God Transcendent

  • theology
Cover of Confessions by Augustine of Hippo, Henry Chadwick, Albert Cook Outler

3. 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

Similar categories in Augustine of Hippo's Confessions book and J. Gresham Machen's God Transcendent

  • theology
Cover of The Whole Christ: Legalism, Antinomianism, and Gospel Assurance—Why the Marrow Controversy Still Matters by Timothy J. Keller, Sinclair B. Ferguson

4. The Whole Christ: Legalism, Antinomianism, and Gospel Assurance—Why the Marrow Controversy Still Matters

By: Timothy J. Keller , Sinclair B. Ferguson

4.52

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Since the days of the early church, Christians have wrestled with the relationship between the law … read more

Similar categories in Timothy J. Keller's The Whole Christ: Legalism, Antinomianism, and Gospel Assurance—Why the Marrow Controversy Still Matters book and J. Gresham Machen's God Transcendent

  • theology
Cover of The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan

5. The Pilgrim's Progress

By: John Bunyan

4.06

Format: 324 pages, Paperback

This famous story of man's progress through life in search of salvation remains one of the most ent… read more

Similar categories in John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress book and J. Gresham Machen's God Transcendent

  • theology
"Follow your heart"

-John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress

"Dark clouds bring waters, when the bright bring none."

-John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress

"They are my fears of him, too. But who can hinder that which will be?"

-John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress

"Now, Mr. Great-heart was a strong man, so he was not afraid of a lion."

-John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress

6. The Aeneid

By: Virgil , Robert Fitzgerald

4.50

Format: 228 pages, Paperback

The Aeneid (play /@'ni:Id/; Latin: Aeneis [aj'ne:is]--the title is Greek in form: genitive case Aen… read more

Similar categories in Virgil's The Aeneid book and J. Gresham Machen's God Transcendent

7. Knowing God

By: J.I. Packer

2.00

Format: 232 pages, Paperback

For over 40 years, J. I. Packer's classic has been an important tool to help Christians around the … read more

Similar categories in J.I. Packer's Knowing God book and J. Gresham Machen's God Transcendent

8. Catechizing Our Children: The Whys and Hows of Teaching the Shorter Catechism Today

By: Terry L. Johnson

3.00

Format: 107 pages, Paperback

Communicating the faith to children is one of the great responsibilities of Christian parents. In t… read more

Similar categories in Terry L. Johnson's Catechizing Our Children: The Whys and Hows of Teaching the Shorter Catechism Today book and J. Gresham Machen's God Transcendent

Cover of Gentle and Lowly: The Heart of Christ for Sinners and Sufferers by Dane C. Ortlund

9. 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

Similar categories in Dane C. Ortlund's Gentle and Lowly: The Heart of Christ for Sinners and Sufferers book and J. Gresham Machen's God Transcendent

  • theology
"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

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

10. 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

Similar categories in Carl R. Trueman's The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self: Cultural Amnesia, Expressive Individualism, and the Road to Sexual Revolution book and J. Gresham Machen's God Transcendent

  • theology
"[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

Cover of Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World by Tom Holland

11. Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World

By: Tom Holland

4.26

Format: 624 pages, Hardcover

A "marvelous" (Economist) account of how the Christian Revolution forged the Western imagination. … read more

Similar categories in Tom Holland's Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World book and J. Gresham Machen's God Transcendent

  • theology
"To hail a religion for its compatibility with a secular society was decidedly not a neutral gesture. Secularism was no less bred of the sweep of Christian history than were Orban's barbed-wire fences…"

-Tom Holland, Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World

Cover of The Person of Christ: An Introduction (Short Studies in Systematic Theology) by Stephen J. Wellum

12. The Person of Christ: An Introduction (Short Studies in Systematic Theology)

By: Stephen J. Wellum

4.50

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

"From beginning to end, Scripture unveils from shadow to reality that Jesus is God the Son incarnat… read more

Similar categories in Stephen J. Wellum's The Person of Christ: An Introduction (Short Studies in Systematic Theology) book and J. Gresham Machen's God Transcendent

  • theology
Cover of The Emotional Life of Our Lord (Crossway Short Classics) by B.B. Warfield

13. The Emotional Life of Our Lord (Crossway Short Classics)

By: B.B. Warfield

4.39

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

"Our Lord's emotions is a subject that Christians have often neglected, and in doing so have depriv… read more

Similar categories in B.B. Warfield's The Emotional Life of Our Lord (Crossway Short Classics) book and J. Gresham Machen's God Transcendent

  • theology
Cover of Lessons from the Upper Room: The Heart of the Savior by Sinclair B. Ferguson

14. Lessons from the Upper Room: The Heart of the Savior

By: Sinclair B. Ferguson

4.53

Format: 241 pages, Paperback

What would you give to spend an evening with Jesus, hearing Him teach and listening to Him pray? Th… read more

Similar categories in Sinclair B. Ferguson's Lessons from the Upper Room: The Heart of the Savior book and J. Gresham Machen's God Transcendent

  • theology
Cover of Fighting Satan: Knowing His Weaknesses, Strategies, and Defeat by Joel R. Beeke

15. Fighting Satan: Knowing His Weaknesses, Strategies, and Defeat

By: Joel R. Beeke

4.38

Format: 126 pages, Kindle Edition

If you are a true believer, Satan hates you because you bear the image of Christ and because you we… read more

Similar categories in Joel R. Beeke's Fighting Satan: Knowing His Weaknesses, Strategies, and Defeat book and J. Gresham Machen's God Transcendent

  • theology
Cover of Weak Pastor, Strong Christ: Developing a Christ-Shaped Gospel Ministry by Reuben Bredenhof

16. Weak Pastor, Strong Christ: Developing a Christ-Shaped Gospel Ministry

By: Reuben Bredenhof

4.20

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

The second letter to the Corinthians is a touchstone for pastors seeking advice on effective minist… read more

Similar categories in Reuben Bredenhof's Weak Pastor, Strong Christ: Developing a Christ-Shaped Gospel Ministry book and J. Gresham Machen's God Transcendent

Cover of Epistle to the Romans by John Murray

17. Epistle to the Romans

By: John Murray

4.30

Format: 736 pages, Paperback

Careful scholarship and spiritual insight characterize this enduring commentary on Romans, generall… read more

Similar categories in John Murray's Epistle to the Romans book and J. Gresham Machen's God Transcendent

  • theology
Cover of God Transcendent by J. Gresham Machen

18. God Transcendent

By: J. Gresham Machen

4.35

Format: 206 pages, Paperback

In these messages, Machen expounds the greatness and the glory of God, the wonder and power of the … read more

Similar categories in J. Gresham Machen's God Transcendent book and J. Gresham Machen's God Transcendent

  • theology
"In the Bible there is that which meets every need of man, which answers every mood, which speaks to every heart."

-J. Gresham Machen, God Transcendent

"It is quite useless to ask a man to adopt the Christian view of the gospel unless he first has the Christian view of sin."

-J. Gresham Machen, God Transcendent

"Christian prayer and Christian piety, we believe, are based only upon the faithfulness of the Christian message and to Him who is the substance of it."

-J. Gresham Machen, God Transcendent

"The Christian religion is no mere form of mysticism, but is founded upon a body of facts; the facts are recorded in the Bible; and if the supposed facts were not facts at all, then Christianity and t…"

-J. Gresham Machen, God Transcendent

Cover of Puritan Reformed Spirituality: A Practical Theological Study from our Reformed and Puritan Heritage by Joel R. Beeke

19. Puritan Reformed Spirituality: A Practical Theological Study from our Reformed and Puritan Heritage

By: Joel R. Beeke

4.36

Format: 475 pages, Paperback

In Puritan Reformed Spirituality Joel Beeke provides us with a first-class tour of some of the grea… read more

Similar categories in Joel R. Beeke's Puritan Reformed Spirituality: A Practical Theological Study from our Reformed and Puritan Heritage book and J. Gresham Machen's God Transcendent

  • theology

8 Best audiobook books like Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World by Tom Holland

Transform Your Habits

Paul: A Biography

N.T. Wright

4.34

Transform Your Habits

Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within

Rory Stewart

4.36

Transform Your Habits

Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World

Tom Holland

4.26

Transform Your Habits

The Restless Republic: Britain Without a Crown

Anna Keay

4.39

View all the books

Never miss a story from us, get weekly updates in your inbox.