Christianity and the New Spirit of Capitalism
By: Kathryn Tanner
3.65
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
One of the world’s most celebrated theologians argues for a Protestant anti-work ethic In his clas…
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1. Four Futures: Life After Capitalism
By: Peter Frase
3.78
Format: 150 pages, Paperback
An exhilarating exploration into the utopias and dystopias that could develop from present society … read more
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- philosophy
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"the path that leads to utopia is not necessarily itself utopian"-Peter Frase, Four Futures: Life After Capitalism
"… nature doesn’t care about us; it neither has interests nor desires, it simply exists."-Peter Frase, Four Futures: Life After Capitalism
"But we can also say that even in a society without clear rulers, history will tend to empathize with the survivors; they are, after all, literally the only ones around to write it."-Peter Frase, Four Futures: Life After Capitalism
"Both [social science & science fiction] attempt to understand empirical facts and lived experience as something that is shaped by abstract - and not directly perceptible - structural forces."-Peter Frase, Four Futures: Life After Capitalism
2. Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
By: Neil Postman , Andrew Postman
4.15
Format: 184 pages, Paperback
Television has conditioned us to tolerate visually entertaining material measured out in spoonfuls … read more
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"The written word endures, the spoken word disappears"-Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
"We rarely talk about television, only about what’s on television"-Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
"Writing is defined as "a conversation with no one and yet with everyone."-Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
"With television, we vault ourselves into a continuous, incoherent present."-Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
3. Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History
By: Michel-Rolph Trouillot
4.36
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
Placing the West's failure to acknowledge the most successful slave revolt in history alongside den… read more
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"I find it hard to harness respect for those who genuinely believe that postmodernity, whatever it may be, allows us to claim no roots."-Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History
"We are never as steeped in history as when we pretend not to be, but if we stop pretending we may gain in understanding what we lose in false innocence. Naiveté is often an excuse for those who exerc…"-Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History
". . . But the past does not exist independently from the present. Indeed, the past is only past because there is a present, just as I can point to something over there only because I am here. But not…"-Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History
4. Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age
By: Sherry Turkle
3.82
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
Renowned media scholar Sherry Turkle investigates how a flight from conversation undermines our rel… read more
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- nonfiction
"I call it the Goldilocks effect: We can't get enough of each other if we can have each other at a digital distance—not too close, not too far, just right. But human relationships are rich, messy, and…"-Sherry Turkle, Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age
5. Bioethics: A Primer for Christians
By: None
3.86
Format: 445 pages, Paperback
In the face of rapid advances in medical research and treatment, bioethics has become a serious soc… read more
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- philosophy
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6. Here I Stand: A Life of Martin Luther
By: Roland H. Bainton
2.50
Format: 216 pages,
Martin Luther shattered the structure of the medieval church, speaking out against corrupt religiou… read more
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7. 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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"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
8. The Peaceable Kingdom: A Primer In Christian Ethics
By: Stanley Hauerwas
4.15
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
Stanley Hauerwas presents an overall introduction to the themes and method that have distinguished … read more
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9. Resurrection and Moral Order: An Outline for Evangelical Ethics
By: Oliver O'Donovan
3.79
Format: 249 pages, Paperback
In this seminal work Oliver O'Donovan delineates a convincing theological ethics from an evangelica… read more
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10. Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
By: Mark Fisher
4.00
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
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11. Just Capitalism
By: Brent Waters
3.67
Format: None pages, Paperback
Just Capitalismis a Christian moral defense of economic globalization as a system that is well-suit… read more
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12. The Christian Imagination: Theology and the Origins of Race
By: Willie James Jennings
3.81
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Why has Christianity, a religion premised upon neighborly love, failed in its attempts to heal soci… read more
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14. Gaia and God: An Ecofeminist Theology of Earth Healing
By: Rosemary Radford Ruether
3.75
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Now in paperback--the most significant work of an internationally acclaimed author and teacher. Sif… read more
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15. The Pursuit of God
By: A.W. Tozer
3.80
Format: 275 pages, Paperback
During a train trip from Chicago to Texas in the late 1940s, A.W. Tozer began to write The Pursuit … read more
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16. Reading the Historical Books: A Student's Guide to Engaging the Biblical Text
By: None
4.29
Format: None pages, Paperback
Biblical history can be some of the most difficult material for beginning students to grasp. The co… read more
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17. Fill These Hearts: God, Sex, and the Universal Longing
By: Christopher West
4.53
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The bestselling author, speaker, and teacher of John Paul II's Theology of the Body explores the ye… read more
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18. Jesus and the Disinherited
By: Vincent Harding , Howard Thurman
4.57
Format: 140 pages, Paperback
In this classic theological treatise, the acclaimed theologian and religious leader Howard Thurman … read more
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19. Stand Your Ground: Black Bodies and the Justice of God
By: Kelly Brown Douglas
4.65
Format: None pages, Paperback
On the Sunday morning after the acquittal of Trayvon Martin's killer, black preachers across Americ… read more
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20. South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
By: Imani Perry
3.97
Format: 410 pages, Hardcover
An essential, surprising journey through the history, rituals, and landscapes of the American South… read more
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- nonfiction
"So I went deeper into an archive of historical memory, hoping to sort it out"-Imani Perry, South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
"Acting like you know everything and acting like you don't know how to be respectful will keep you ignorant. Be humble."-Imani Perry, South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
"And yes, slavery was abolished, Jim Crow is over, but the prisons, the persistence of poverty, are constant reminders of how the past made the present."-Imani Perry, South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
"What, by analogy, happens to the family of the university, or the town, or the state, or the Old Dominion, or the nation itself, given what has been built into its creation?"-Imani Perry, South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
21. A Grief Observed
By: C.S. Lewis
4.22
Format: 76 pages, Paperback
Written with love, humility, and faith, this brief but poignant volume was first published in 1961 … read more
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"Time itself is one more name for death."-C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed
"The death of a beloved is an amputation."-C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed
"I need Christ, not something that resembles Him."-C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed
"No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear."-C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed
22. The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness
By: Jonathan Haidt
4.46
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
After more than a decade of stability or improvement, the mental health of adolescents plunged in t… read more
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"Socially prescribed perfectionism is closely related to anxiety; people who suffer from anxiety are more prone to it. Being a perfectionist also increases your anxiety because you fear the shame of p…"-Jonathan Haidt, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness
"Girls in virtual networks are subjected to hundreds of times more social comparison than girls had experienced for all of human evolution. They are exposed to more cruelty and bullying because social…"-Jonathan Haidt, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness
23. How Far to the Promised Land: One Black Family's Story of Hope and Survival in the American South
By: Esau McCaulley
4.62
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times contributing opinion writer and award-winning author of Reading While Black… read more
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- nonfiction
"There is no Black faith that doesn't wrestle with the problem of evil. My reply to these questions is: We who have suffered must have some say in how that suffering is interpreted. We won the right, …"-Esau McCaulley, How Far to the Promised Land: One Black Family's Story of Hope and Survival in the American South
24. Taking America Back for God: Christian Nationalism in the United States
By: Andrew L. Whitehead
4.10
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Why do so many conservative Christians continue to support Donald Trump despite his many overt mora… read more
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25. Managing Leadership Anxiety: Yours and Theirs
By: Steve Cuss
4.34
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
You Can Learn to Handle the Onslaught of Internal and External Pressures Does anxiety get in the wa… read more
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26. After Whiteness: An Education in Belonging (Theological Education between the Times (TEBT))
By: Willie James Jennings
4.53
Format: 175 pages, Paperback
On forming people who form communion Theological education has always been about first of people… read more
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27. Breaking Things at Work: The Luddites Are Right About Why You Hate Your Job
By: Gavin Mueller
3.97
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
In the nineteenth century, English textile workers responded to the introduction of new technologie… read more
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- politics
- economics
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"Free software is an example of a Luddite technology: an innovation in the interest of the preservation of practitioners' autonomy against the imposition of control over the labor process by capitalis…"-Gavin Mueller, Breaking Things at Work: The Luddites Are Right About Why You Hate Your Job
28. Decolonizing Wealth: Indigenous Wisdom to Heal Divides and Restore Balance
By: Edgar Villanueva
4.30
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Decolonizing Wealth is a provocative analysis of the dysfunctional colonial dynamics at play in phi… read more
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- economics
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"Grieving requires softening your self-protective defense mechanisms enough to feel: getting beyond the denial, numbness, righteousness, apathy, and other obstacles we have put In place to avoid the d…"-Edgar Villanueva, Decolonizing Wealth: Indigenous Wisdom to Heal Divides and Restore Balance
"Some may say it’s tiresome to dwell on the hurt- after all there’s a relentless (if artificial) drive to Stay Positive! in America, to focus only on solutions—yet an essential step in the process of …"-Edgar Villanueva, Decolonizing Wealth: Indigenous Wisdom to Heal Divides and Restore Balance
"Colonial, white supremacist organizational practices seem inevitable because they were so universally adopted over the next centuries, and they still govern the great majority of our institutions, bu…"-Edgar Villanueva, Decolonizing Wealth: Indigenous Wisdom to Heal Divides and Restore Balance
29. Reading the Prophets as Christian Scripture: A Literary, Canonical, and Theological Introduction (Reading Christian Scripture)
By: Eric J Tully
4.73
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Southwestern Journal of Theology 2022 Book of the Year Award (Honorable Mention, Biblical Studies) … read more
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30. Christianity and the New Spirit of Capitalism
By: Kathryn Tanner
3.65
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
One of the world’s most celebrated theologians argues for a Protestant anti-work ethic In his clas… read more
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31. Reading Biblical Poetry: An Introductory Guide
By: J.P. Fokkelman
3.52
Format: None pages, Paperback
A companion to Reading Biblical Narrative , this volume provides an authoritative introduction and … read more
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