9 Top religion books like Credo: Meditations on the Apostles' Creed by Hans Urs von Balthasar

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Credo: Meditations on the Apostles' Creed

By: Hans Urs von Balthasar

4.09

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

In the twelve months before his sudden death, Hans Urs von Balthasar had been writing a series of r…

If you liked the religion plot in Credo: Meditations on the Apostles' Creed by Hans Urs von Balthasar , here is a list of 9 books like this:

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1. Is God a Moral Monster? Making Sense of the Old Testament God

By: Paul Copan

4.03

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

A recent string of popular-level books written by the New Atheists have leveled the accusation that… read more

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  • christian
  • theology
  • christianity
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  • nonfiction
"You've probably heard the complaint, “Jesus never said anything about the wrongness of slavery." Not so! Jesus explicitly opposed every form of oppression. Citing Isaiah 61:1, Jesus clearly described…"

-Paul Copan, Is God a Moral Monster? Making Sense of the Old Testament God

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2. The Imitation of Christ

By: Thomas à Kempis , William Benham , Richard Challoner, D.D.

4.32

Format: 632 pages, Paperback

Only the Bible has been more influential as a source of Christian devotional reading than The Imita… read more

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  • christian
  • theology
  • christianity
  • religion
  • nonfiction
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3. Revelations of Divine Love

By: Julian of Norwich , A.C. Spearing , Elizabeth Spearing

4.20

Format: 228 pages, Paperback

One of the first woman authors, Julian of Norwich produced in Revelations of Divine Lovea remarkabl… read more

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  • christianity
  • christian
  • nonfiction
  • theology
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4. 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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  • christian
  • theology
  • christianity
  • religion
  • nonfiction
"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

5. The Spirit of the Liturgy

By: Pope Benedict XVI , Jon Saward , Joseph Ratzinger

4.12

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Considered by Ratzinger devotees as his greatest work on the Liturgy, this profound and beautifully… read more

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  • christian
  • theology
  • christianity
  • religion
  • nonfiction
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6. The Brothers Karamazov

By: Fyodor Dostoevsky , Richard Pevear , Larissa Volokhonsky

4.37

Format: 796 pages, Paperback

The Brothers Karamazov is a murder mystery, a courtroom drama, and an exploration of erotic rivalry… read more

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  • religion
"How good life is when one does something good and just!"

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

"Forgive me... for my love - for ruining you with my love."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

"Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared to love in dreams."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

"What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

7. 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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8. After Virtue

By: Alasdair MacIntyre

4.18

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

When After Virtue first appeared in 1981, it was recognized as a significant and potentially contro… read more

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"All power tends to coopt, and absolute power coopts absolutely."

-Alasdair MacIntyre, After Virtue

"At the foundation of moral thinking lie beliefs in statements the truth of which no further reason can be given."

-Alasdair MacIntyre, After Virtue

"The introduction of the word ‘intuition’ by a moral philosopher is always a signal that something has gone badly wrong with an argument."

-Alasdair MacIntyre, After Virtue

"To treat someone else as an end [as opposed to a mean] is to offer them what I take to be good reasons for acting in one way rather than another, but to leave it to them to evaluate those reasons."

-Alasdair MacIntyre, After Virtue

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9. The Horse and His Boy (Chronicles of Narnia, #5)

By: C.S. Lewis

3.91

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

The Horse and his Boy is a stirring and dramatic fantasy story that finds a young boy named Shasta … read more

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  • christian
"Do not dare not to dare."

-C.S. Lewis, The Horse and His Boy (Chronicles of Narnia, #5)

"No one can teach riding so well as a horse"

-C.S. Lewis, The Horse and His Boy (Chronicles of Narnia, #5)

"Onward and Upward! To Narnia and the North!"

-C.S. Lewis, The Horse and His Boy (Chronicles of Narnia, #5)

"Even a walk will get us somewhere sometime."

-C.S. Lewis, The Horse and His Boy (Chronicles of Narnia, #5)

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10. 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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  • christian
"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)

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11. Have His Carcase (Lord Peter Wimsey, #8)

By: Dorothy L. Sayers

4.11

Format: 499 pages, Kindle Edition

The second Dorothy L. Sayers classic to feature mystery writer Harriet Vane, Have His Carcase. Harr… read more

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"I always have a quotation for everything--it saves original thinking."

-Dorothy L. Sayers, Have His Carcase (Lord Peter Wimsey, #8)

"Novelists and police-inspectors do not always see eye to eye as regards publicity."

-Dorothy L. Sayers, Have His Carcase (Lord Peter Wimsey, #8)

"A solitary rock is always attractive. All right-minded people feel an overwhelming desire to scale and sit upon it."

-Dorothy L. Sayers, Have His Carcase (Lord Peter Wimsey, #8)

"In the mood of relaxation and confidence that follows on being parboiled, it was easy enough to pump Mrs Weldon. A little diplomacy was needed, so as not to betray the ulterior object of the inquiry,…"

-Dorothy L. Sayers, Have His Carcase (Lord Peter Wimsey, #8)

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12. Theology of the Body in Simple Language

By: Pope John Paul II

4.49

Format: 200 pages, Kindle Edition

"This fully ecumenical understanding of sexuality is less about following the rules than about disc… read more

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  • christian
  • theology
  • christianity
  • religion
  • nonfiction
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13. The Catechetical Lectures of St. Cyril of Jerusalem

By: Cyril of Jerusalem

4.33

Format: 347 pages, Kindle Edition

The famous Catechetical Lectures of Cyril, archbishop of Jerusalem, are a series of 23 addresses St… read more

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  • nonfiction
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14. For the Body: Recovering a Theology of Gender, Sexuality, and the Human Body (Seedbed Resources)

By: Timothy C. Tennent

4.15

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

An in-depth look at what it means to be created in the image of God and how our bodies serve as ico… read more

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  • christian
  • nonfiction
  • theology
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15. Credo: Meditations on the Apostles' Creed

By: Hans Urs von Balthasar

4.09

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

In the twelve months before his sudden death, Hans Urs von Balthasar had been writing a series of r… read more

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10 must-read nonfiction books like Credo: Meditations on the Apostles' Creed by Hans Urs von Balthasar

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Paul Copan

4.03

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Thomas à Kempis , William Benham , Richard Challoner, D.D.

4.32

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Revelations of Divine Love

Julian of Norwich , A.C. Spearing , Elizabeth Spearing

4.20

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Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community

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4.27

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Albert Camus , Matthew Ward , Stuart Gilbert , None

4.02

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Dead Souls

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3.98

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Albert Camus , Stuart Gilbert

4.02

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Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra , Roberto González Echevarría , John Rutherford

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