11 must-read christian books like Upbuilding Discourses in Various Spirits by Søren Kierkegaard

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Upbuilding Discourses in Various Spirits

By: Søren Kierkegaard

4.56

Format: 468 pages, Hardcover

In his praise for Part I of Upbuilding Discourses in Various Spirits, the eminent Kierkegaard schol…

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

By: D.G. Hart

4.33

Format: None pages,

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  • religion
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2. Demons

By: Fyodor Dostoevsky , Richard Pevear , Larissa Volokhonsky

4.30

Format: 733 pages, Paperback

Alternate Cover Edition ISBN 0679734511. (ISBN13: 9780679734512) Inspired by the true story of a… read more

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  • philosophy
"God is the pain of the fear of death"

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Demons

"Man is unhappy because he doesn't know he's happy. It's only that."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Demons

"Marriage is the moral death of every proud soul, of all independence."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Demons

"...and in fact I've noticed that faith always seems to be less in the daytime"

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Demons

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3. 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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  • christianity
  • philosophy
  • christian
  • religion
"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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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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  • philosophy
  • christian
  • religion
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5. 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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  • christianity
  • christian
  • religion
  • spirituality
"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

6. Supernatural: What the Bible Teaches about the Unseen World - And Why It Matters

By: Michael S. Heiser

4.20

Format: None pages, Paperback

Dr. Michael S. Heiser, a Scholar-in-Residence at Faithlife Corporation, presents fifteen years of r… read more

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7. The Portrait of a Lady

By: Henry James , Patricia Crick

3.79

Format: 797 pages, Paperback

When Isabel Archer, a beautiful, spirited American, is brought to Europe by her wealthy Aunt Touche… read more

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"She has only one fault; too many ideas."

-Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady

"If one is strong, one loves the more strongly."

-Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady

"It's not my fate to give up--I know it can't be."

-Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady

"The finer natures were those that shone at the larger times."

-Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady

8. A Short Life of Kierkegaard

By: Walter Lowrie

3.71

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

'In his 'Short Life', Dr Lowrie gives a clear & moving account of the history of Kierkegaard's deve… read more

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9. Paul: A Biography

By: N.T. Wright

4.34

Format: 480 pages, ebook

In this definitive biography, renowned Bible scholar, Anglican bishop, and bestselling author N. T.… read more

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  • christianity
  • christian
  • religion
  • spirituality
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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

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  • christianity
  • philosophy
  • christian
  • religion
"[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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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

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  • christianity
  • philosophy
  • christian
"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

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12. The Terminal List (Terminal List, #1)

By: Jack Carr

4.28

Format: 407 pages, Hardcover

A Navy SEAL has nothing left to live for and everything to kill for after he discovers that the Ame… read more

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"Revisionist views of the Constitution by opportunistic politicians and unelected judges with agendas that reinterpret the Bill of Rights to take power away from the people and consolidate it at the f…"

-Jack Carr, The Terminal List (Terminal List, #1)

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13. Confessions of a French Atheist: How God Hijacked My Quest to Disprove the Christian Faith

By: Guillaume Bignon

4.14

Format: 232 pages, Kindle Edition

Guillaume est raisonnablement athée. Profondément athée. Son travail de consultant en informatique … read more

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  • christianity
  • christian
  • religion
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14. That All Shall Be Saved: Heaven, Hell, and Universal Salvation

By: David Bentley Hart

4.26

Format: 232 pages, Hardcover

The great fourth-century church father Basil of Caesarea once observed that, in his time, most Chri… read more

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  • christian
  • christianity
  • philosophy
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  • spirituality
"As far as I am concerned, anyone who hopes for the universal reconciliation of all creatures with God must already believe that this would be the best possible ending to the Christian story; and such…"

-David Bentley Hart, That All Shall Be Saved: Heaven, Hell, and Universal Salvation

"Really, on the whole, Christians rarely pay particularly close attention to what the Bible actually says, for the simple reason that the texts defy synthesis in a canon of exact doctrines, and yet mo…"

-David Bentley Hart, That All Shall Be Saved: Heaven, Hell, and Universal Salvation

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15. The Reading Life: The Joy of Seeing New Worlds Through Others' Eyes

By: C.S. Lewis

4.10

Format: 192 pages, ebook

The revered teacher and bestselling author of such classic Christian works as Mere Christianity and… read more

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  • christian
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16. Upbuilding Discourses in Various Spirits

By: Søren Kierkegaard

4.56

Format: 468 pages, Hardcover

In his praise for Part I of Upbuilding Discourses in Various Spirits, the eminent Kierkegaard schol… read more

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7 Best philosophy books like Upbuilding Discourses in Various Spirits by Søren Kierkegaard

Transform Your Habits

Demons

Fyodor Dostoevsky , Richard Pevear , Larissa Volokhonsky

4.30

Transform Your Habits

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C.S. Lewis

4.31

Transform Your Habits

Confessions

Augustine of Hippo , Henry Chadwick , Albert Cook Outler

3.41

Transform Your Habits

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Carl R. Trueman

4.57

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

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Dietrich Bonhoeffer

4.30

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C.S. Lewis

4.31

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3.41

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G.K. Chesterton

4.11

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