14 must-read theology books like Into the Pulpit: Southern Baptist Women and Power Since World War II by Elizabeth H. Flowers

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Into the Pulpit: Southern Baptist Women and Power Since World War II

By: Elizabeth H. Flowers

3.88

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Into-Pulpit-Southern-Baptist-Women/dp/080783534X The debate o…

If you liked the theology plot in Into the Pulpit: Southern Baptist Women and Power Since World War II by Elizabeth H. Flowers , here is a list of 14 books like this:

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1. Jesus Christ and the Life of the Mind

By: Mark A. Noll

3.50

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind(1994) Mark Noll offered a bleak, even scathing, assessment o… read more

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  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • theology
Cover of God the Son Incarnate: The Doctrine of Christ by Stephen J. Wellum, John S. Feinberg

2. God the Son Incarnate: The Doctrine of Christ

By: Stephen J. Wellum , John S. Feinberg

4.18

Format: 407 pages, Hardcover

Nothing is more important than what a person believes about Jesus Christ. To understand Christ corr… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • theology
Cover of Baptist Battles: Social Change and Religious Conflict in the Southern Baptist Convention by Nancy Tatom Ammerman

3. Baptist Battles: Social Change and Religious Conflict in the Southern Baptist Convention

By: Nancy Tatom Ammerman

3.93

Format: None pages, Paperback

Since 1979 Southern Baptists have been noisily struggling to agree on symbols, beliefs, and practic… read more

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  • history
  • religion
  • nonfiction

4. Apostles of Reason: The Crisis of Authority in American Evangelicalism

By: Molly Worthen

4.37

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Evangelical Christianity is a paradox. Evangelicals are radically individualist, but devoted to com… read more

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  • history
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • theology
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5. Turning Points: Decisive Moments in the History of Christianity

By: Mark A. Noll

4.25

Format: 127 pages, Paperback

Evangelicalism\u2019s premier historian provides a general introduction to church history. read more

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  • history
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • theology

6. Blessed: A History of the American Prosperity Gospel

By: Kate Bowler

4.08

Format: None pages, Hardcover

How have millions of American Christians come to measure spiritual progress in terms of their finan… read more

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7. Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved

By: Kate Bowler

3.80

Format: 178 pages, Hardcover

A divinity professor and young mother with a Stage IV cancer diagnosis explores the pain and joy of… read more

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  • nonfiction
"I was immediately worn out by the tyranny of prescriptive joy."

-Kate Bowler, Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved

"I failed to love what was present and decided to love what was possible instead."

-Kate Bowler, Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved

"They would find something simple and that would be the end of it. I'd just have to schedule my life around a surgery, nothing major."

-Kate Bowler, Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved

"A lot of Christians like to remind me that heaven is my true home, which makes me want to ask them if they would like to go home first."

-Kate Bowler, Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved

8. Why Study History?: Reflecting on the Importance of the Past

By: John Fea

4.27

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

What is the purpose of studying history? How do we reflect on contemporary life from a historical p… read more

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9. Modern Christian Thought: Twentieth Century v. 2

By: James C. Livingston , None

3.84

Format: 467 pages, Paperback

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10. American Apocalypse: A History of Modern Evangelicalism

By: None

3.90

Format: 15 pages, Hardcover

The first comprehensive history of modern American evangelicalism to appear in a generation, Americ… read more

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11. The Cross and the Lynching Tree

By: James H. Cone

4.51

Format: 202 pages, Hardcover

The cross and the lynching tree are the two most emotionally charged symbols in the history of the … read more

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  • history
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • theology
"For [Martin Luther] King nonviolence was more than a strategy; it was the way of life defined by love for others—the only way to heal broken humanity."

-James H. Cone, The Cross and the Lynching Tree

"The gospel of Jesus is not a rational concept to be explained in a theory of salvation, but a story about God’s presence in Jesus’ solidarity with the oppressed, which led to his death on the cross. …"

-James H. Cone, The Cross and the Lynching Tree

"The cross and the lynching tree interpret each other. Both were public spectacles, shameful events, instruments of punishment reserved for the most despised people in society. Any genuine theology an…"

-James H. Cone, The Cross and the Lynching Tree

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12. The Silver Chair (Chronicles of Narnia, #4)

By: C.S. Lewis , Pauline Baynes

3.96

Format: 243 pages, Paperback

Jill and Eustace must rescue the Prince from the evil Witch. NARNIA...where owls are wise, where… read more

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"Life isn't all fricasseed frogs and eel pie."

-C.S. Lewis, The Silver Chair (Chronicles of Narnia, #4)

"It's expression was solemn, its complexion muddy."

-C.S. Lewis, The Silver Chair (Chronicles of Narnia, #4)

"You would not have called to me unless I had been calling to you," said the Lion."

-C.S. Lewis, The Silver Chair (Chronicles of Narnia, #4)

"Though under earth, and throneless now I be Yet while I lived all earth was under me."

-C.S. Lewis, The Silver Chair (Chronicles of Narnia, #4)

13. Mapping Modern Theology: A Thematic and Historical Introduction

By: Kelly M. Kapic , None

4.64

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

This textbook offers a fresh approach to modern theology by approaching the field thematically, cov… read more

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14. God Has a Name

By: John Mark Comer

4.67

Format: 523 pages,

Many of us ache for relationship with God, yet feel distant and disconnected from him. As if he's m… read more

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15. Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived

By: Rob Bell

3.66

Format: 243 pages, Kindle Edition

Millions of Christians have struggled with how to reconcile God's love and God's judgment: Has God… read more

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  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • theology
"You turn the light on, you get all kinds of bugs."

-Rob Bell, Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived

"Forgiveness is unilateral. God isn’t waiting for us to get it together, to clean up, shape up, get up - God has already done it."

-Rob Bell, Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived

"...Jesus responds to almost every question he's asked with...a question. "What do you think? How do you read it?" he asks, again and again and again."

-Rob Bell, Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived

"Love demands freedom. It always has, and it always will. We are free to resist, reject, and rebel against God's ways for us. We can have all the hell we want."

-Rob Bell, Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived

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16. Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation

By: Kristin Kobes Du Mez

4.30

Format: 356 pages, Hardcover

A scholar of American Christianity presents a seventy-five-year history of evangelicalism that iden… read more

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  • history
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • theology
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17. How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America

By: Clint Smith

4.71

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Poet and contributor to The Atlantic Clint Smith’s revealing, contemporary portrait of America as a… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
"How do you tell a story that has been told the wrong way for so long?"

-Clint Smith, How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America

"Just as he did during the Slavery at Monticello tour, David did not mince words. "There’s a chapter in Notes on the State of Virginia ,"

-Clint Smith, How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America

"Jefferson believed himself to be a benevolent slave owner, but his moral ideals came second to, and were always entangled with, his own economic interests and the interests of his family."

-Clint Smith, How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America

"But not enough people spoke about the reasons so many black children grow up communities saturated with poverty and violence. Not enough people spoke about how these realities were the result of deci…"

-Clint Smith, How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America

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18. The Book of Longings

By: Sue Monk Kidd

4.24

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

“I am Ana. I was the wife of Jesus.” Raised in a wealthy family in Sepphoris with ties to the ru… read more

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"Bless the largeness inside me, no matter how I fear it."

-Sue Monk Kidd, The Book of Longings

"Her mind was an immense feral country that spilled its borders."

-Sue Monk Kidd, The Book of Longings

"What most sets you apart is the spirit in you that rebels and persists."

-Sue Monk Kidd, The Book of Longings

"When I tell you all shall be well, I don't mean that life won't bring you tragedy. Life will be life. I only mean you will be well in spite of it. All shall be well, no matter what."

-Sue Monk Kidd, The Book of Longings

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19. The Preacher’s Wife: The Precarious Power of Evangelical Women Celebrities

By: Kate Bowler

4.03

Format: 456 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've … read more

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  • history
  • religion
  • nonfiction
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20. Amidst Us Our Beloved Stands: Recovering Sacrament in the Baptist Tradition

By: Michael A.G. Azad Haykin

4.52

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

"Amidst Us Our Belovèd Stands will help all pastors and theologians, whether Baptist or not, to con… read more

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  • history
  • theology
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21. Jesus and the God of Classical Theism

By: Steven J. Duby

4.75

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

In both biblical studies and systematic theology, modern treatments of the person of Christ have ca… read more

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Cover of The Crucified King: Atonement and Kingdom in Biblical and Systematic Theology by Jeremy R. Treat

22. The Crucified King: Atonement and Kingdom in Biblical and Systematic Theology

By: Jeremy R. Treat

4.49

Format: 299 pages, Kindle Edition

The kingdom of God and the atonement are two of the most important themes in all of Scripture. Trag… read more

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  • theology
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23. The Trinitarian Christology of St Thomas Aquinas

By: Dominic Legge

4.87

Format: 280 pages, Hardcover

The Trinitarian Christology of St Thomas Aquinas brings to light the Trinitarian riches in Thomas A… read more

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24. Redeeming the South: Religious Cultures and Racial Identities Among Southern Baptists, 1865-1925 (The Fred W. Morrison Series in Southern Studies)

By: Paul Harvey

3.55

Format: 344 pages, Paperback

Together, and separately, black and white Baptists created different but intertwined cultures that … read more

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  • history
Cover of Uneasy in Babylon: Southern Baptist Conservative and American Culture by Barry Hankins

25. Uneasy in Babylon: Southern Baptist Conservative and American Culture

By: Barry Hankins

3.62

Format: 356 pages, Paperback

The definitive account of how conservative Southern Baptists came to dominate the nation's largest … read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Southern Baptists Re-Observed: Perspectives on Race, Gender, and Politics (America's Baptists) by Keith Harper

26. Southern Baptists Re-Observed: Perspectives on Race, Gender, and Politics (America's Baptists)

By: Keith Harper

3.67

Format: 344 pages, Hardcover

In 1993, sociologist Nancy Ammerman published an edited collection, Southern Baptists  Observed , t… read more

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27. Into the Pulpit: Southern Baptist Women and Power Since World War II

By: Elizabeth H. Flowers

3.88

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Into-Pulpit-Southern-Baptist-Women/dp/080783534X The debate o… read more

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28. Karl Barth

By: Shao Kai Tseng

3.86

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Swiss theologian Karl Barth (1886-1968) has made a monumental impact all along the spectrum of theo… read more

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Cover of Modern Christian Thought, Volume 1: The Enlightenment and the Nineteenth Century by James C. Livingston

29. Modern Christian Thought, Volume 1: The Enlightenment and the Nineteenth Century

By: James C. Livingston

4.00

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

This widely acclaimed introduction to modern Christian thought, formerly published by Prentice Hall… read more

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Cover of Ecce Homo: On the Divine Unity of Christ (Interventions (INT)) by Aaron Riches

30. Ecce Homo: On the Divine Unity of Christ (Interventions (INT))

By: Aaron Riches

4.51

Format: 301 pages, Paperback

Interacting with theologians throughout the ages, Riches narrates the development of the church’s d… read more

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"In the womb of the Virgin Mary, God “becomes"

-Aaron Riches, Ecce Homo: On the Divine Unity of Christ (Interventions (INT))

"Orthodoxy, however, entails a revolution in our metaphysical conception of the relationship between God and humanity, and therefore between the uncreated Unum and the maior dissimilitudo of the creat…"

-Aaron Riches, Ecce Homo: On the Divine Unity of Christ (Interventions (INT))

"The specific sufferings of Jesus do not amount to redemption: rather, redemption is wrought through the uniqueness of the person who suffered and the perfect charity for which, in which and by which …"

-Aaron Riches, Ecce Homo: On the Divine Unity of Christ (Interventions (INT))

"To suggest that the grief of Christ issues from his perfect wisdom and charity would confirm that true sorrow is human and therefore cannot correspond to despair, since the hopelessness of despair wo…"

-Aaron Riches, Ecce Homo: On the Divine Unity of Christ (Interventions (INT))

13 must-read history books like Into the Pulpit: Southern Baptist Women and Power Since World War II by Elizabeth H. Flowers

Transform Your Habits

God the Son Incarnate: The Doctrine of Christ

Stephen J. Wellum , John S. Feinberg

4.18

Transform Your Habits

Baptist Battles: Social Change and Religious Conflict in the Southern Baptist Convention

Nancy Tatom Ammerman

3.93

Apostles of Reason: The Crisis of Authority in American Evangelicalism

Molly Worthen

4.37

Transform Your Habits

Turning Points: Decisive Moments in the History of Christianity

Mark A. Noll

4.25

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Inspired: Slaying Giants, Walking on Water, and Loving the Bible Again

Rachel Held Evans

4.39

Transform Your Habits

Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived

Rob Bell

3.66

Transform Your Habits

The Universal Christ: How a Forgotten Reality Can Change Everything We See, Hope For and Believe

Richard Rohr

4.45

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How the Bible Actually Works: In Which I Explain How An Ancient, Ambiguous, and Diverse Book Leads Us to Wisdom Rather Than Answers―and Why That's Great News

Peter Enns

4.29

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