15 must-read theology books like It Takes a Church to Baptize by Scot McKnight

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It Takes a Church to Baptize

By: Scot McKnight

4.11

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

The issue of baptism has troubled Protestants for centuries. Should infants be baptized before thei…

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1. How God Became King: The Forgotten Story of the Gospels

By: N.T. Wright

4.26

Format: 282 pages, Hardcover

New Testament scholar N.T. Wright reveals how we have been misreading the Gospels for centuries, po… read more

Similar categories in N.T. Wright's How God Became King: The Forgotten Story of the Gospels book and Scot McKnight's It Takes a Church to Baptize

  • christian
  • theology
  • christianity
  • faith
  • christian living
  • religion
  • nonfiction
"...It Isn't actually much of an encouragement to me to read the stories about Jesus. I might as well take encouragement from watching a great athlete run a four-minute mile. Sure, it's a fine sight, …"

-N.T. Wright, How God Became King: The Forgotten Story of the Gospels

Cover of Salvation by Allegiance Alone: Rethinking Faith, Works, and the Gospel of Jesus the King by Scot McKnight, Matthew W. Bates

2. Salvation by Allegiance Alone: Rethinking Faith, Works, and the Gospel of Jesus the King

By: Scot McKnight , Matthew W. Bates

2.67

Format: 166 pages, Paperback

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  • christian
  • theology
  • christianity
  • faith
  • religion
  • nonfiction
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3. Emotionally Healthy Spirituality: Unleash a Revolution in Your Life In Christ

By: Peter Scazzero

3.65

Format: 135 pages, Hardcover

What Are You Missing? Peter Scazzero learned the hard way: you can't be spiritually mature while re… read more

Similar categories in Peter Scazzero's Emotionally Healthy Spirituality: Unleash a Revolution in Your Life In Christ book and Scot McKnight's It Takes a Church to Baptize

  • christian
  • theology
  • christianity
  • faith
  • christian living
  • nonfiction
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4. Ancient-Future Worship: Proclaiming and Enacting God's Narrative

By: Robert E. Webber

3.75

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

With the many models of worship available, choosing a style to worship God can be a bit overwhelmin… read more

Similar categories in Robert E. Webber's Ancient-Future Worship: Proclaiming and Enacting God's Narrative book and Scot McKnight's It Takes a Church to Baptize

  • christian
  • theology
  • christianity
  • religion
  • nonfiction
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5. Liturgy of the Ordinary: Sacred Practices in Everyday Life

By: Tish Harrison Warren

4.08

Format: 31 pages, Paperback

Many of us go through the day feeling like we don't have time for God. But God can become present t… read more

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  • christian
  • theology
  • christianity
  • faith
  • christian living
  • religion
  • nonfiction
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6. 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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  • christian
  • theology
  • christianity
  • faith
  • christian living
  • religion
  • nonfiction
"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

7. The Rule of Saint Benedict

By: Benedict of Nursia , None

3.22

Format: 111 pages, Paperback

Composed nearly fifteen hundred years ago by the father of Western monasticism, The Rule of St. Ben… read more

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8. Luther on the Christian Life: Cross and Freedom

By: Justin Taylor , Stephen J. Nichols , Carl R. Trueman

4.00

Format: 592 pages, Paperback

Martin Luther's historical significance can hardly be overstated. Known as the father of the Protes… read more

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9. For the Life of the World: Sacraments and Orthodoxy

By: Alexander Schmemann

3.75

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

An approach to the world and to life that stems from the liturgical experience of the Orthodox Chur… read more

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10. Deeper: Real Change for Real Sinners

By: Dane C. Ortlund

4.58

Format: 193 pages, Kindle Edition

“Grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.” —2 Peter 3:18 How do Chri… read more

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  • christian
  • theology
  • christianity
  • faith
  • christian living
  • religion
  • nonfiction
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11. Practicing the Way: Be with Jesus, Become Like Him, Do As He Did

By: John Mark Comer

4.63

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The author of the international bestseller The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry calls us to rediscover… read more

Similar categories in John Mark Comer's Practicing the Way: Be with Jesus, Become Like Him, Do As He Did book and Scot McKnight's It Takes a Church to Baptize

  • christian
  • theology
  • christianity
  • faith
  • christian living
  • religion
  • nonfiction
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12. Strange Religion: How the First Christians Were Weird, Dangerous, and Compelling

By: Nijay K. Gupta

4.29

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

The first Christians were weird. Just how weird is often lost on today's believers. Within Roman s… read more

Similar categories in Nijay K. Gupta's Strange Religion: How the First Christians Were Weird, Dangerous, and Compelling book and Scot McKnight's It Takes a Church to Baptize

  • christian
  • theology
  • christianity
  • religion
  • nonfiction
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13. Reckoning with Power: Why the Church Fails When It’s on the Wrong Side of Power

By: David E. Fitch

4.25

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

History is Whenever the church has aligned itself with worldly, coercive power, it ends up on the … read more

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  • christian
  • theology
  • faith
  • christian living
  • religion
  • nonfiction
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14. The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth

By: Beth Allison Barr

4.40

Format: 245 pages, Paperback

Biblical womanhood--the belief that God designed women to be submissive wives, virtuous mothers, an… read more

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  • christian
  • theology
  • christianity
  • faith
  • religion
  • nonfiction
"Glorifying the past because we like the story better isn't history; it's propaganda."

-Beth Allison Barr, The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth

"When we differentiate women because of their sex, we objectify them and deny them their humanity."

-Beth Allison Barr, The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth

"Like racism, patriarchy is a shapeshifter—conforming to each new era, looking as if it has always belonged."

-Beth Allison Barr, The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth

"Historically, one of the greatest problems for women is that we do not remember our past and we do not work together to change our future. We do not stand together. But what if we did?"

-Beth Allison Barr, The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth

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15. The 6 Types of Working Genius

By: Patrick Lencioni

4.15

Format: 228 pages, Hardcover

New York Times best-selling author Patrick Lencioni unveils a truly groundbreaking new model that w… read more

Similar categories in Patrick Lencioni's The 6 Types of Working Genius book and Scot McKnight's It Takes a Church to Baptize

  • nonfiction
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16. Jesus and the Powers: Christian Political Witness in an Age of Totalitarian Terror and Dysfunctional Democracies

By: N.T. Wright

4.14

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Should Christians be politically withdrawn, avoiding participation in politics to maintain their pr… read more

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  • christian
  • theology
  • christianity
  • faith
  • christian living
  • religion
  • nonfiction
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17. Lent: The Season of Repentance and Renewal

By: Esau McCaulley

4.43

Format: 112 pages, Hardcover

"Lent is inescapably about repenting." Every year, the church invites us into a season of repentanc… read more

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  • christian
  • theology
  • christianity
  • faith
  • christian living
  • religion
  • nonfiction
"We hope that as Christians we mature and grow and become more and more like Christ. But the church and its wisdom assumes we will fail even after our baptism. The church presumes that life is long an…"

-Esau McCaulley, Lent: The Season of Repentance and Renewal

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18. The Life We're Looking For: Reclaiming Relationship in a Technological World

By: Andy Crouch

4.06

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A deeply reflective primer on creating meaningful connections, rebuilding abundant communities, and… read more

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  • christian
  • theology
  • christianity
  • faith
  • christian living
  • nonfiction
"In our deepest hearts we know that being charmed is unreal. All our lives, what we really have been looking for is blessing. We once lay on a mother’s breast, looking for a face. We were not looking …"

-Andy Crouch, The Life We're Looking For: Reclaiming Relationship in a Technological World

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19. Delete That: And Other Failed Attempts to Look Good Online

By: John Crist

4.18

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

John Crist wasn’t always recognizable as “the guy from that hilarious video in the grocery store.” … read more

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  • christian
  • nonfiction
  • religion
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20. It Takes a Church to Baptize

By: Scot McKnight

4.11

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

The issue of baptism has troubled Protestants for centuries. Should infants be baptized before thei… read more

Similar categories in Scot McKnight's It Takes a Church to Baptize book and Scot McKnight's It Takes a Church to Baptize

  • christian
  • theology
  • christianity
  • faith
  • christian living
  • ecclesiology
  • religion
  • nonfiction
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21. War in Heaven

By: Charles Williams

3.83

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

An alternate cover for this ISBN can be found: here A battle over the most sacred object in Chri… read more

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  • christian
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"The telephone bell was ringing wildly, but without result, since there was no-one in the room but the corpse."

-Charles Williams, War in Heaven

"[...] the war between good and evil existed no longer, for the thing beneath the Graal was not fighting but vomiting."

-Charles Williams, War in Heaven

"An hour's conversation on literature between two ardent minds with a common devotion to a neglected poet is a miraculous road to intimacy."

-Charles Williams, War in Heaven

"There is no possible idea," Kenneth thought as he came onto the terrace, "to which the mind of man can't supply some damned alternative or other. Yet one must act."

-Charles Williams, War in Heaven

15 must-read religion books like It Takes a Church to Baptize by Scot McKnight

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How God Became King: The Forgotten Story of the Gospels

N.T. Wright

4.26

Transform Your Habits

Salvation by Allegiance Alone: Rethinking Faith, Works, and the Gospel of Jesus the King

Scot McKnight , Matthew W. Bates

2.67

Transform Your Habits

Ancient-Future Worship: Proclaiming and Enacting God's Narrative

Robert E. Webber

3.75

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Liturgy of the Ordinary: Sacred Practices in Everyday Life

Tish Harrison Warren

4.08

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

Dane C. Ortlund

4.52

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John Mark Comer

4.63

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Emily P. Freeman

4.01

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Jennie Allen

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