Pagans and Christians in the City: Culture Wars from the Tiber to the Potomac (Emory University Studies in Law and Religion (EUSLR))
By: Steven D. Smith
4.33
Format: 408 pages, Hardcover
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1. Political Church: The Local Assembly as Embassy of Christ's Rule (Studies in Christian Doctrine and Scripture)
By: Jonathan Leeman
4.30
Format: 407 pages, Paperback
The church is political. Theologians have been debating this claim for years. Liberationists, Anaba… read more
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- cultural
- politics
- christian
"The division between politics and religion, I dare say, is an ideological ploy. Imagine an airport security metal detector standing at the entrance of the public square, which doesn't screen for meta…"-Jonathan Leeman, Political Church: The Local Assembly as Embassy of Christ's Rule (Studies in Christian Doctrine and Scripture)
2. Leave It to Psmith (Psmith, #4)
By: P.G. Wodehouse
4.27
Format: 293 pages, Paperback
Ronald Psmith (“the ‘p’ is silent, as in pshrimp”) is always willing to help a damsel in distress. … read more
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"It seems to me that you and I were made for each other. I am your best friend’s best friend and we both have a taste for stealing other people’s jewellery."-P.G. Wodehouse, Leave It to Psmith (Psmith, #4)
"Very rapidly now Freddie realised that what he had been wishing for was a partner to share the perils of this enterprise which he had so rashly undertaken. In fact, not so much to share them as to ta…"-P.G. Wodehouse, Leave It to Psmith (Psmith, #4)
"In the past she had been compelled to describe this man as a hunk of cheese and to express the opinion that his crookedness was such as to enable him to hide at will behind a spiral staircase; but no…"-P.G. Wodehouse, Leave It to Psmith (Psmith, #4)
3. That Hideous Strength (Space Trilogy, #3)
By: C.S. Lewis
3.81
Format: 4 pages, Paperback
Written during the dark hours immediately before and during the Second World War, C. S. Lewis's Spa… read more
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- christian
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
- nonfiction
- religion
5. 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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- christian
"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)
"But courage, child: we are all between the paws of the true Aslan."-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)
6. The Story of Christianity: Volume 1: The Early Church to the Reformation
By: Justo L. González
4.00
Format: 371 pages, Paperback
Sheds light on the major cultural and theological currents shaping the church during this period. read more
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- history
- church history
- christianity
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- nonfiction
7. A Basic Guide to Interpreting the Bible: Playing by the Rules
By: Robert H. Stein
4.43
Format: 230 pages, Paperback
A readable guide to interpreting the various kinds of literature presented in the Bible, including … read more
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- christian
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- religion
8. God's Smuggler
By: John Sherrill , Elizabeth Sherrill , Brother Andrew
4.10
Format: None pages, Paperback
As a boy he dreamed of being a spy undercover behind enemy lines. As a man he found himself underco… read more
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- christianity
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- christian
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9. How (Not) to Be Secular: Reading Charles Taylor
By: James K.A. Smith
3.33
Format: 161 pages, Paperback
What does it mean to say we live in a secular world? Charles Taylor's landmark book A Secular Agepr… read more
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10. 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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11. Homer Price
By: Robert McCloskey
4.09
Format: 149 pages, Paperback
Welcome to Centerburg! Where you can win a hundred dollars by eating all the doughnuts you want; wh… read more
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"By the time Uncle Ulysses and the sheriff arrived and pushed through the crowd, the lunchroom was a calamity of doughnuts! Doughnuts in the window, doughnuts piled high on the shelves, doughnuts stac…"-Robert McCloskey, Homer Price
"Homer got down from the chair and pushed a button on the machine marked, "start". Rings of batter started dropping into the hot fat. After a ring of batter was cooked on one side, an automatic gadget…"-Robert McCloskey, Homer Price
12. According to Plan
By: Graeme Goldsworthy
3.65
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
The massive diversity and complexity of the Bible can make it a daunting project for anyone to tack… read more
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13. The Nicomachean Ethics
By: Aristotle , Jonathan Barnes , None , Hugh Tredennick
3.99
Format: 329 pages, Paperback
‘One swallow does not make a summer; neither does one day. Similarly neither can one day, or a brie… read more
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- nonfiction
"Philosophy can make people sick."-Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics
"A man without regrets cannot be cured."-Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics
"Freedom is obedience to self-formulated rules."-Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics
"The beginning seems to be more than half of the whole."-Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics
14. On the Cosmic Mystery of Jesus Christ: Selected Writings
By: Robert L. Wilken , Maximus the Confessor , Paul M. Blowers
4.12
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
St Maximus' two main collections of theological reflections-his Ambigua (or "Difficulties") and his… read more
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15. The Abolition of Man
By: C.S. Lewis
3.97
Format: 480 pages, Paperback
Alternative cover for ISBN: 978-0060652944 The Abolition of Man, Lewis uses his graceful prose, del… read more
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16. Crossing to Safety
By: Wallace Stegner
3.83
Format: 35 pages,
Called a "magnificently crafted story . . . brimming with wisdom" by Howard Frank Mosher in "The Wa… read more
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17. Delighting in the Trinity: An Introduction to the Christian Faith
By: Michael Reeves
3.71
Format: 224 pages,
In this brief and winsome book, Michael Reeves presents an introduction to the Christian faith that… read more
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18. The Republic
By: Plato , Desmond Lee
3.96
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
Presented in the form of a dialogue between Socrates and three different interlocutors, this classi… read more
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"Appearance tyrannizes over truth."-Plato, The Republic
"The comprehensive mind is always dialectical."-Plato, The Republic
"Those who don't know must learn from those who do."-Plato, The Republic
"Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance"-Plato, The Republic
19. American Zion: A New History of Mormonism
By: Benjamin E. Park
4.21
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
The first major history of Mormonism in a decade, drawing on newly available sources to reveal a pr… read more
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- nonfiction
- religion
- history
20. 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
21. Strange New World: How Thinkers and Activists Redefined Identity and Sparked the Sexual Revolution
By: Carl R. Trueman
4.50
Format: 204 pages, Paperback
From Philosophy to Technology, Tracing the Origin of Identity Politics How did the world arrive … read more
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22. The Myth of Left and Right: How the Political Spectrum Misleads and Harms America (STUDIES IN POSTWAR AMERICAN POLITCAL)
By: Verlan Lewis
4.26
Format: 168 pages, Hardcover
A groundbreaking argument that the political spectrum today is inadequate to twenty-first century A… read more
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- philosophy
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23. The Right: The Hundred-Year War for American Conservatism
By: Matthew Continetti
4.08
Format: None pages, Audiobook
A magisterial intellectual history of the last century of American conservatism When most people t… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
24. The Peacemaker: Ronald Reagan in the White House and the World
By: William Inboden
4.50
Format: 596 pages, Hardcover
An in-depth and masterful account of how Ronald Reagan’s foreign policy "team of rivals" ended the … read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
"Fortunately, Marhsall found an eager audience in fellow intellectual Ikle, who recognized at once that ONA's analysis and prescriptions for the Cold War reinforced Reagan's intuitions. Together Ikle …"-William Inboden, The Peacemaker: Ronald Reagan in the White House and the World
25. The Genesis of Gender: A Christian Theory
By: Abigail Rine Favale
4.59
Format: 248 pages, Paperback
The question of gender—who we are as men and women—has never been more pressing, or more misunderst… read more
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26. Theological Retrieval for Evangelicals: Why We Need Our Past to Have a Future
By: Gavin Ortlund
4.29
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Restless for rootedness, many Christians are abandoning Protestantism altogether. Many evangelicals… read more
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- christian
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27. Why God Makes Sense in a World That Doesn't: The Beauty of Christian Theism
By: Gavin Ortlund
4.51
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
It has never been more important to articulate the wonder and enchantment of the Christian message.… read more
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"That day I came across several of the so-called new atheist books: Richard Dawkins’s The God Delusion, Christopher Hitchens’s God Is Not Great, and Sam Harris’s The End of Faith. I vividly remember t…"-Gavin Ortlund, Why God Makes Sense in a World That Doesn't: The Beauty of Christian Theism
28. Liberty in the Things of God: The Christian Origins of Religious Freedom
By: Robert L. Wilken
4.19
Format: 248 pages, Hardcover
From one of the leading historians of Christianity comes this sweeping reassessment of religious fr… read more
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29. On Marriage and Family Life (Popular Patristics) (English and Ancient Greek Edition)
By: John Chrysostom
4.43
Format: 110 pages, Paperback
Christian tradition often seems to give only grudging approval to the married life, particularly it… read more
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30. Pagans and Christians in the City: Culture Wars from the Tiber to the Potomac (Emory University Studies in Law and Religion (EUSLR))
By: Steven D. Smith
4.33
Format: 408 pages, Hardcover
Traditionalist Christians who oppose same-sex marriage and other cultural developments in the Unite… read more
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31. Shepherds for Sale: How Evangelical Leaders Traded the Truth for a Leftist Agenda
By: Megan Basham
4.37
Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition
“This may just be the single most important book on modern Evangelicalism in recent years. It is bo… read more
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