7 Best spirituality books like Christ the Conqueror of Hell: The Descent Into Hades From an Orthodox Perspective by Hilarion Alfeyev

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Christ the Conqueror of Hell: The Descent Into Hades From an Orthodox Perspective

By: Hilarion Alfeyev

4.33

Format: 231 pages, Paperback

This in-depth study on the realm of death presents a message of hope held by the first generation o…

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1. On the Divine Images: 3 Apologies Against Those Who Attack the Divine Images (English and Ancient Greek Edition)

By: John of Damascus

4.26

Format: 106 pages, Paperback

St John of Damascus wrote these three treaties Against Those Who Attack the Divine Images in respon… read more

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  • christian
  • theology
  • christianity
  • religion
  • nonfiction
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2. God's Revelation to the Human Heart

By: Seraphim Rose

3.63

Format: 353 pages, Paperback

What does man seek in religion, and what should he seek in it? How does God reveal Himself in order… read more

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  • christian
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  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
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3. Walden

By: Henry David Thoreau

2.57

Format: 210 pages, Paperback

Walden, or, Life in the Woods, is an American book written by noted transcendentalist Henry David T… read more

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  • nonfiction
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4. Early Christian Writings: The Apostolic Fathers

By: Maxwell Staniforth , Andrew Louth , Ignatius of Antioch , Clement of Rome , Polycarp , Barnabas

4.25

Format: 355 pages, Paperback

Letters and small-scale theological treatises giving a rich and powerful articulation of the Christ… read more

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  • christianity
  • religion
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  • theology
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5. 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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  • christian
  • nonfiction
  • religion
  • theology
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6. An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith

By: John of Damascus

4.01

Format: 30 pages,

A polymath whose fields of interest and contribution included law, theology, philosophy, and music,… read more

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  • christian
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  • spirituality
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7. The Orthodox Way

By: Kallistos Ware

3.20

Format: 168 pages,

This book is a general account of the doctrine, worship and life of Orthodox Christians by the auth… read more

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  • christian
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  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
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8. The Idiot

By: Fyodor Dostoevsky , Constance Garnett , Joseph Frank , Alan Myers , Anna Brailovsky

4.21

Format: 667 pages, Paperback

Returning to Russia from a sanitarium in Switzerland, the Christ-like epileptic Prince Myshkin find… read more

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"I'm drunk but truthful."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot

"Beauty will save the world."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot

"The Russian soul is a dark place."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot

"She is passion embodied, a flower of melodrama in eternal bloom."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot

9. 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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10. The Orthodox Faith: Worship (volume ii)

By: Thomas Hopko

4.06

Format: 205 pages,

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11. Mere Christianity

By: C.S. Lewis

4.36

Format: 191 pages, Paperback

In the classic Mere Christianity, C.S. Lewis, the most important writer of the 20th century, explor… read more

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"The Son of God became a man to enable men to become sons of God."

-C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

"God is no fonder of intellectual slackers than He is of any other slacker."

-C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

"We do know that no person can be saved except through Christ. We do not know that only those who know Him can be saved by Him."

-C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

"The only things we can keep are the things we freely give to God. What we try to keep for ourselves is just what we are sure to lose."

-C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

12. Nihilism: The Root of the Revolution of the Modern Age

By: Seraphim Rose

3.23

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

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13. The Dream of a Ridiculous Man

By: Fyodor Dostoevsky

4.02

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

A short story by Fyodor Dostoyevsky written in 1877. It begins with a man walking St. Petersburg's … read more

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"I want to suffer so that I may love."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man

"How anxiously I yearned for those I had forsake"

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man

"how anxiously I yearned for those I had forsaken."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man

"أصبحت فجأة لا أغضب من الناس، بل ما عدت ألاحظ وجودهم."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man

14. 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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15. Orthodoxy and the Religion of the Future

By: Seraphim Rose

3.89

Format: None pages,

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16. Silence

By: Shūsaku Endō , William Johnston

3.84

Format: 223 pages, Paperback

Beneath the light of the candle I am sitting with my hands on my knees, staring in front of me. And… read more

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17. The Way of a Pilgrim

By: Anonymous , Thomas Hopko , None

3.86

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Ova knjiga nije drugo nego upravo pokusaj opisati osobno iskustvo jednog ruskog poboznika - bogotra… read more

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18. The Soul After Death

By: Seraphim Rose

4.33

Format: 128 pages,

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19. 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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20. The Denial of Death

By: Daniel Goleman , Ernest Becker , Sam Keen

4.32

Format: 80 pages,

Winner of the Pulitzer prize in 1974 and the culmination of a life's work, "The Denial of Death" is… read more

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21. Notes from Underground

By: Fyodor Dostoevsky , Norman Dietz , Richard Pevear , Larissa Volokhonsky , Boris de Schlœzer , Emanuela Guercetti , None , Donald Fanger , None , None , None

4.17

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

Dostoevsky’s most revolutionary novel, Notes from Underground marks the dividing line between ninet… read more

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"l'homme de la nature et de la verite"

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground

"I'll go this minute!' Of course, I remained."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground

"إذ ما العذاب والألم ... سوى المحرك الوحيد للوعي."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground

"To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground

22. The First and Second Apologies

By: Justin Martyr

4.09

Format: None pages, Hardcover

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23. 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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24. The Story of Christianity: An Illustrated History of 2000 Years of the Christian Faith

By: David Bentley Hart

4.00

Format: 120 pages, Hardcover

Includes timelines, display quotations, and profiles of the key personalities who shaped the course… read more

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25. A Secular Age

By: Charles Margrave Taylor

3.64

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Almost everyone would agree that the place of religion in our societies has changed profoundly over… read more

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26. Religion of the Apostles: Orthodox Christianity in the First Century

By: Stephen De Young

4.53

Format: 310 pages, Kindle Edition

Rev. Dr. Stephen De Young, creator of the popular The Whole Counsel of God blog and podcast, traces… read more

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  • christian
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  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
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27. 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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"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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28. Tradition and Apocalypse: An Essay on the Future of Christian Belief

By: David Bentley Hart

4.11

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

In the two thousand years that have elapsed since the time of Christ, Christians have been as much … read more

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  • christianity
  • religion
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29. The Orthodox Faith Volume 3: Church History

By: Thomas Hopko

4.35

Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition

THE ORTHODOX FAITH series is intended to provide basic, comprehensive information on the faith and … read more

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  • christianity
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30. Christ the Conqueror of Hell: The Descent Into Hades From an Orthodox Perspective

By: Hilarion Alfeyev

4.33

Format: 231 pages, Paperback

This in-depth study on the realm of death presents a message of hope held by the first generation o… read more

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31. The Bride of the Lamb

By: Sergius Bulgakov

4.34

Format: 549 pages, Paperback

Sergius Bulgakov is thought by many to be the twentieth century's foremost Russian Orthodox theolog… read more

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13 Best religion books like Christ the Conqueror of Hell: The Descent Into Hades From an Orthodox Perspective by Hilarion Alfeyev

Transform Your Habits

On the Divine Images: 3 Apologies Against Those Who Attack the Divine Images (English and Ancient Greek Edition)

John of Damascus

4.26

Transform Your Habits

God's Revelation to the Human Heart

Seraphim Rose

3.63

Transform Your Habits

Early Christian Writings: The Apostolic Fathers

Maxwell Staniforth , Andrew Louth , Ignatius of Antioch , Clement of Rome , Polycarp , Barnabas

4.25

Transform Your Habits

Confessions

Augustine of Hippo , Henry Chadwick , Albert Cook Outler

3.41

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90 Minutes in Heaven: A True Story of Death and Life

Don Piper , Cecil Murphey

4.15

Transform Your Habits

The Cross and the Switchblade

David Wilkerson , John Sherrill , Elizabeth Sherrill

4.26

Transform Your Habits

Battlefield of the Mind: Winning the Battle in Your Mind

Joyce Meyer

4.31

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The Case for Christ

Lee Strobel

4.37

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