11 must-read nonfiction books like An Introduction to Christian Mysticism: Recovering the Wildness of Spiritual Life by Jason M. Baxter

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An Introduction to Christian Mysticism: Recovering the Wildness of Spiritual Life

By: Jason M. Baxter

3.97

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

This brief, accessibly written volume introduces key figures, texts, and themes of the mystical tra…

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1. The Benedict Option: A Strategy for Christians in a Post-Christian Nation

By: Rod Dreher

3.80

Format: 262 pages, Hardcover

In a radical new vision for the future of Christianity, NYT bestselling author and conservative col… read more

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  • philosophy
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • theology
"To rediscover Christian asceticism is urgent for believers who want to train their hearts, and the hearts of their children, to resist the hedonism and consumerism at the core of contemporary culture…"

-Rod Dreher, The Benedict Option: A Strategy for Christians in a Post-Christian Nation

"Once, during my Catholic days, I was complaining with a Catholic friend about how terrible the teaching was in parish life. A priest listening to us said that everything we griped about was true, but…"

-Rod Dreher, The Benedict Option: A Strategy for Christians in a Post-Christian Nation

"We live liturgically, telling our sacred Story in worship and song. We fast and we feast. We marry and give our children in marriage, and though in exile, we work for the peace of the city. We welcom…"

-Rod Dreher, The Benedict Option: A Strategy for Christians in a Post-Christian Nation

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2. The Wife (Kristin Lavransdatter, #2)

By: Tiina Nunnally , Sigrid Undset , Sherrill Harbison

4.12

Format: None pages, Paperback

Original 3 Volumes: Kransen ('20), Husfrue ('21) & Korset ('22). In Kristin Lavransdatter(1920-22),… read more

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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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  • philosophy
  • religion
  • theology
"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. The Tech-Wise Family: Everyday Steps for Putting Technology in Its Proper Place

By: Andy Crouch

4.01

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Making conscientious choices about technology in our families is more than just using internet filt… read more

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  • nonfiction
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5. Orthodoxy

By: G.K. Chesterton

4.11

Format: 528 pages, Paperback

Chesterton (The Man Who Knew Too Much) capped his brilliant literary career with this exploration o… read more

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  • philosophy
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • theology
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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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  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • theology
"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

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7. Phantastes

By: George MacDonald

3.48

Format: 93 pages, Paperback

"I was dead, and right content," the narrator says in the penultimate chapter of Phantastes. C.S. L… read more

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8. Prince Caspian (Chronicles of Narnia, #2)

By: C.S. Lewis

3.98

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Illustrations in this ebook appear in vibrant full color on a full color ebook device, and in rich … read more

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"The help will come,"

-C.S. Lewis, Prince Caspian (Chronicles of Narnia, #2)

"I don't want to hold you hand!"

-C.S. Lewis, Prince Caspian (Chronicles of Narnia, #2)

"Things never happen the same way twice."

-C.S. Lewis, Prince Caspian (Chronicles of Narnia, #2)

"And the feasts on the poop and the musicians."

-C.S. Lewis, Prince Caspian (Chronicles of Narnia, #2)

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9. Murder Must Advertise (Lord Peter Wimsey, #10)

By: Dorothy L. Sayers

4.17

Format: 356 pages, Mass Market Paperback

When ad man Victor Dean falls down the stairs in the offices of Pym's Publicity, a respectable Lond… read more

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"How do you do?"

-Dorothy L. Sayers, Murder Must Advertise (Lord Peter Wimsey, #10)

"Bredon shuddered. “I think this is an awfully immoral job of ours. I do, really. Think how we spoil the digestions of the public."

-Dorothy L. Sayers, Murder Must Advertise (Lord Peter Wimsey, #10)

"It's a curious thing, but people cannot resist anonymous letters. It's like free sample offers. They appeal to all one's lower instincts."

-Dorothy L. Sayers, Murder Must Advertise (Lord Peter Wimsey, #10)

"The interview with the cat had been particularly full of appeal. The animal was, it seemed, an illustrious rat-catcher, with many famous deeds to her credit. Not only that, but she had been the first…"

-Dorothy L. Sayers, Murder Must Advertise (Lord Peter Wimsey, #10)

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10. The Wreath (Kristin Lavransdatter, #1)

By: Tiina Nunnally , Sigrid Undset

3.62

Format: None pages, Paperback

Originally published in Norwegian in 1920 and set in fourteenth-century Norway, The Wreath chronicl… read more

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11. Surprised by Oxford

By: Carolyn Weber

4.18

Format: None pages, Paperback

A "girl-meets-God" style memoir of an agnostic who, through her surprising opportunity to study at … read more

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12. The Knowledge of the Holy

By: A.W. Tozer

3.98

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

The Knowledge of the Holyby popular evangelical author and Christian mystic A.W. Tozer illuminates … read more

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13. The Man Born to Be King: A Play-Cycle on the Life of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ

By: Dorothy L. Sayers

4.14

Format: None pages,

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14. Misreading Scripture with Western Eyes: Removing Cultural Blinders to Better Understand the Bible

By: E. Randolph Richards , Brandon J. O'Brien

3.87

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

What was clear to the original readers of Scripture is not always clear to us. Because of the cultu… 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. The Children of the New Forest

By: Frederick Marryat

3.88

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

The Children of the New Forest is a children's novel published in 1847 by Frederick Marryat. It is … read more

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17. Art & the Bible

By: Francis A. Schaeffer

4.05

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

The lordship of Christ should include an interest in the arts," writes Francis Schaeffer. "A Christ… read more

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18. The Story of King Arthur and His Knights

By: Howard Pyle , None

3.57

Format: 271 pages, Paperback

In these wonderfully illustrated tales, renowned storyteller Howard Pyle carries us back to the enc… read more

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19. On the Holy Spirit

By: David Anderson , Basil the Great

0.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

This classic exposition of Trinitarian doctrine eloquently sets forth the distinction yet perpetual… read more

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20. Evangelical is Not Enough: Worship of God in Liturgy and Sacrament

By: Thomas Howard

4.60

Format: None pages, Paperback

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21. 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)

22. Making Sense of God: An Invitation to the Skeptical

By: Timothy J. Keller

4.18

Format: 411 pages, Hardcover

. We live in an age of skepticism. Our society places such faith in empirical reason, historical p… read more

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23. Praying Like Monks, Living Like Fools: An Invitation to the Wonder and Mystery of Prayer

By: Tyler Staton

4.60

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Prayer is the source of Jesus's most astonishing miracles and the subject of Jesus's most audacious… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • theology
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24. Finding the Right Hills to Die on: The Case for Theological Triage

By: Gavin Ortlund

4.34

Format: 163 pages, Paperback

In theology, just as in battle, some hills are worth dying on. But how do we know which ones? When … read more

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25. The Bible, King James Version, Book 45; Romans

By: Paul the Apostle

4.75

Format: 174 pages, Paperback

Book 6 of the New Testament. read more

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"Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, separated unto the gospel of God, (Which he had promised afore by his prophets in the holy scriptures,) Concerning his Son Jesus Christ our L…"

-Paul the Apostle, The Bible, King James Version, Book 45; Romans

"What if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect? God forbid: yes, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in t…"

-Paul the Apostle, The Bible, King James Version, Book 45; Romans

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26. Love What Lasts: How to Save Your Soul From Mediocrity

By: Joshua Gibbs

4.63

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

In Love What Lasts, Joshua Gibbs offers readers a wide-angle view of contemporary culture, explains… read more

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27. Jesus through Medieval Eyes: Beholding Christ with the Artists, Mystics, and Theologians of the Middle Ages

By: Grace Hamman

4.06

Format: 194 pages, Kindle Edition

C.S. Lewis noted that the church has a Whenever Christians are brainstorming together about who Je… read more

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28. An Introduction to Christian Mysticism: Recovering the Wildness of Spiritual Life

By: Jason M. Baxter

3.97

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

This brief, accessibly written volume introduces key figures, texts, and themes of the mystical tra… read more

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  • church history
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  • religion
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  • catholic
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29. Deep Anglicanism: A Brief Guide

By: Gerald McDermott

4.26

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

None read more

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30. A Touch of the Infinite: Studies in Music Appreciation with Charlotte Mason (The Mason Method)

By: Megan Elizabeth Hoyt

4.46

Format: 237 pages, Paperback

A Touch of the Infinite is the Mason educator's comprehensive, one-volume guide to understanding an… read more

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