21 Best theology books like Urban Legends of Church History: 40 Common Misconceptions by Michael J. Svigel

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Urban Legends of Church History: 40 Common Misconceptions

By: Michael J. Svigel

4.35

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Urban Legends Church History surveys forty of the most commonly misunderstood events of church hist…

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1. Dwell: Life with God for the World

By: Barry D. Jones

4.38

Format: 229 pages, Paperback

Popular notions of Christian spirituality today tend to focus on getting us out of the world or get… read more

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2. Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began

By: Art Spiegelman

4.42

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Acclaimed as a quiet triumph and a brutally moving work of art, the first volume of Art Spieglman's… read more

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"But here God didn't come. We were all on our own."

-Art Spiegelman, Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began

"No matter what I accomplish, it doesn't seem like much compared to surviving Auschwitz."

-Art Spiegelman, Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began

"Samuel Beckett já disse: "Toda palavra é uma mancha desnecessária no silêncio e no vazio". Por outro lado, ele DISSE isso."

-Art Spiegelman, Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began

"Anja? What is to tell? Everywhere I look I'm seeing Anja... From my good eye, from my glass eye, if they're open or they're close, always I'm thinking on Anja."

-Art Spiegelman, Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began

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3. Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God

By: Timothy J. Keller

4.35

Format: 26 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling author and renowned pastor explores the power of prayer. Christians … read more

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4. Memoirs of an Ordinary Pastor: The Life and Reflections of Tom Carson

By: Donald Arthur Carson

4.18

Format: 306 pages, Paperback

D. A. Carson's father was a pioneering church-planter and pastor in Quebec. But still, an ordinary … read more

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5. The Prophetic Imagination

By: Walter Brueggemann

3.88

Format: 440 pages, Paperback

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6. Exploring Christian Theology, Volume I: Revelation, Scripture, and the Triune God

By: Douglas K. Blount , Nathan D. Holsteen , Michael J. Svigel , None , None , None

3.36

Format: 317 pages, Paperback

Part one: Douglas K. Blount, Nathan D. Holsteen, Glenn R. Kreider, and Michael J. Svigel, Part two:… read more

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7. The Cure

By: Bill Thrall , Bruce McNicol , John S. Lynch

4.21

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

We thought we were cured. We thought so, but most of us unwittingly carried an old, dead outlook in… read more

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8. The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism

By: Timothy J. Keller

4.00

Format: None pages,

. The End of Faith. The God Delusion. God Is Not Great. Letter to a Christian Nation. Bestseller l… read more

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9. Desiring the Kingdom: Worship, Worldview, and Cultural Formation

By: James K.A. Smith

2.00

Format: 161 pages, Paperback

Malls, stadiums, and universities are actually liturgical structures that influence and shape our t… read more

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10. Urban Legends of the New Testament: 40 Common Misconceptions

By: David A. Croteau

3.92

Format: 358 pages, Paperback

Urban Legends of the New Testamentsurveys forty of the most commonly misinterpreted passages in the… read more

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11. How to Read the Bible Like a Seminary Professor: A Practical and Entertaining Exploration of the World's Most Famous Book

By: None

4.31

Format: 66 pages, Paperback

Many people admire and even revere the Bible, but they simply do not understand what they read, muc… read more

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12. The Story of Christianity: Volume 2: The Reformation to the Present Day

By: Justo L. González

4.29

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

This highly informative, narrative history covers the events, persons, external influences, and for… read more

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13. Through Gates of Splendor

By: Elisabeth Elliot

3.37

Format: 204 pages, Paperback

In 1956, five young men, including Elliot's husband, Jim, traveled into the jungles of Ecuador to e… read more

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14. Basic Bible Interpretation

By: Donald Campbell , Roy B. Zuck

3.91

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

BASIC BIBLE INTERPRETATION Can the Bible really be understood? Are Old Testament prophecies relevan… read more

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15. Inspiration and Incarnation: Evangelicals and the Problem of the Old Testament

By: Peter Enns

4.18

Format: None pages, Paperback

In this accessible study, Peter Enns offers an evangelical affirmation of biblical authority that c… read more

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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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Cover of Live No Lies: Recognize and Resist the Three Enemies That Sabotage Your Peace by John Mark Comer

17. Live No Lies: Recognize and Resist the Three Enemies That Sabotage Your Peace

By: John Mark Comer

4.49

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

We are at war. Not with a foreign government or domestic terrorists or a creepy new artificial inte… read more

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"Anxious to avoid a repeat of history, Edmund Burke laid out the logic behind the American architecture in a letter from 1791: "Men are qualified for civil liberty, in exact proportion to their dispos…"

-John Mark Comer, Live No Lies: Recognize and Resist the Three Enemies That Sabotage Your Peace

Cover of Revelation for the Rest of Us: A Prophetic Call to Follow Jesus as a Dissident Disciple by Scot McKnight

18. Revelation for the Rest of Us: A Prophetic Call to Follow Jesus as a Dissident Disciple

By: Scot McKnight

4.37

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

See how the Book of Revelation can be read as a book of discipleship , challenging Christ-followers… read more

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19. The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth

By: Beth Allison Barr

4.40

Format: 245 pages, Paperback

Biblical womanhood--the belief that God designed women to be submissive wives, virtuous mothers, an… read more

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"Glorifying the past because we like the story better isn't history; it's propaganda."

-Beth Allison Barr, The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth

"When we differentiate women because of their sex, we objectify them and deny them their humanity."

-Beth Allison Barr, The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth

"Like racism, patriarchy is a shapeshifter—conforming to each new era, looking as if it has always belonged."

-Beth Allison Barr, The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth

"Historically, one of the greatest problems for women is that we do not remember our past and we do not work together to change our future. We do not stand together. But what if we did?"

-Beth Allison Barr, The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth

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20. Adorning the Dark: Thoughts on Community, Calling, and the Mystery of Making

By: Andrew Peterson

4.51

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Making something beautiful in a broken world can be harrowing work, and it can’t be done alone.   O… read more

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"When we manage to make something pretty, it's only because we are ourselves a flourish on a greater canvas."

-Andrew Peterson, Adorning the Dark: Thoughts on Community, Calling, and the Mystery of Making

"[T]he steady resonance of your work might move someone closer to the Kingdom—and compared to a human heart, planets are small potatoes."

-Andrew Peterson, Adorning the Dark: Thoughts on Community, Calling, and the Mystery of Making

"There's no doubt in my mind that what's shaped me and my work more than any particular talent on my part has been living out a calling in the midst of a Christ-centered community."

-Andrew Peterson, Adorning the Dark: Thoughts on Community, Calling, and the Mystery of Making

"Christian art, then, might be defined as a work that is, like Christ himself, full of grace and truth. Where we go wrong is when we tilt the scales away from grace, or beauty, or excellence, as if tr…"

-Andrew Peterson, Adorning the Dark: Thoughts on Community, Calling, and the Mystery of Making

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21. Losing Our Religion: An Altar Call for Evangelical America

By: Russell D. Moore

4.31

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Former Southern Baptist pastor and Christianity Today editor-in-chief Russell Moore calls for repen… read more

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Cover of The Evangelical Imagination: How Stories, Images, and Metaphors Created a Culture in Crisis by Karen Swallow Prior

22. The Evangelical Imagination: How Stories, Images, and Metaphors Created a Culture in Crisis

By: Karen Swallow Prior

4.25

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Contemporary American evangelicalism is suffering from an identity crisis--and a lot of bad press. … read more

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"For Hardy and other critics of the evangelical movement, too often the desire for purity encouraged hypocrisy, earnest ideals became mere performance, and the valuation of hard work turned into pursu…"

-Karen Swallow Prior, The Evangelical Imagination: How Stories, Images, and Metaphors Created a Culture in Crisis

"The novel [ Pamela ] is also a very powerful early expression of the modern self, one who sees her soul as equal in human worth and dignity to anyone, regardless of social class or power--and this, t…"

-Karen Swallow Prior, The Evangelical Imagination: How Stories, Images, and Metaphors Created a Culture in Crisis

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23. The Lord Is My Courage: Stepping Through the Shadows of Fear Toward the Voice of Love

By: K.J. Ramsey

4.58

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Walking through Psalm 23 phrase by phrase, therapist and author K.J. Ramsey explores the landscape … read more

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Cover of The Ballot and the Bible: How Scripture Has Been Used and Abused in American Politics and Where We Go from Here by Kaitlyn Schiess

24. The Ballot and the Bible: How Scripture Has Been Used and Abused in American Politics and Where We Go from Here

By: Kaitlyn Schiess

4.30

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

How do Bible passages written thousands of years ago apply to politics today? What can we learn fro… read more

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"The Bible is not a free-floating book of ageless wisdom, an interesting historical document, or a weapon that can be put in the service of any political goal. The Bible is a gift from God to the chur…"

-Kaitlyn Schiess, The Ballot and the Bible: How Scripture Has Been Used and Abused in American Politics and Where We Go from Here

"What is government? What is the relationship between theology and politics? How should Christians think about their political participation? These questions typically get lost in our conversations. W…"

-Kaitlyn Schiess, The Ballot and the Bible: How Scripture Has Been Used and Abused in American Politics and Where We Go from Here

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25. Curious Faith

By: Ferguson Wilbert

4.37

Format: 191 pages, Paperback

God created us curious. We innately wonder about the world, one another, ourselves, and God. But te… read more

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"God asks questions too."

-Ferguson Wilbert, Curious Faith

"...all injustice is spiritual."

-Ferguson Wilbert, Curious Faith

"...heartsickness is a gateway to hard-heartedness."

-Ferguson Wilbert, Curious Faith

"Curiosity will free you to live in the mystery of God's love."

-Ferguson Wilbert, Curious Faith

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26. A Practical Primer on Theological Method: Table Manners for Discussing God, His Works, and His Ways

By: Glenn R. Kreider

4.09

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Around a table sit men and women with distinct The Interpreter, the Theologian, the Virtuous, the … read more

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Cover of Nobody's Mother: Artemis of the Ephesians in Antiquity and the New Testament by Sandra L. Glahn

27. Nobody's Mother: Artemis of the Ephesians in Antiquity and the New Testament

By: Sandra L. Glahn

4.49

Format: 190 pages, Paperback

Some Christians think Paul's reference to "saved through childbearing" in 1 Timothy 2:15 means that… read more

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Cover of Heaven: Biblical Answers to Common Questions by Randy Alcorn

28. Heaven: Biblical Answers to Common Questions

By: Randy Alcorn

4.39

Format: 60 pages, Kindle Edition

Nearly 600,000 Copies Sold!18 easy-to-understand questions and answers adapted from the bestselling… read more

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29. Urban Legends of Church History: 40 Common Misconceptions

By: Michael J. Svigel

4.35

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Urban Legends Church History surveys forty of the most commonly misunderstood events of church hist… read more

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Cover of Urban Legends of Theology: 40 Common Misconceptions by Michael E. Wittmer

30. Urban Legends of Theology: 40 Common Misconceptions

By: Michael E. Wittmer

4.20

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Urban Legends of Theology surveys 40 of the most common misunderstandings of Christian doctrine. So… read more

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Cover of Urban Legends of the Old Testament: 40 Common Misconceptions by David A. Croteau

31. Urban Legends of the Old Testament: 40 Common Misconceptions

By: David A. Croteau

4.11

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Urban Legends of the Old Testament surveys forty of the most commonly misinterpreted passages in th… read more

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8 Best history books like Urban Legends of Church History: 40 Common Misconceptions by Michael J. Svigel

Transform Your Habits

Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began

Art Spiegelman

4.42

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Memoirs of an Ordinary Pastor: The Life and Reflections of Tom Carson

Donald Arthur Carson

4.18

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

Kristin Kobes Du Mez

4.30

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The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth

Beth Allison Barr

4.40

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Practicing the Way: Be with Jesus, Become Like Him, Do As He Did

John Mark Comer

4.63

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The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism

Tim Alberta

4.45

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Revelation for the Rest of Us: A Prophetic Call to Follow Jesus as a Dissident Disciple

Scot McKnight

4.37

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Testimony: Inside the Evangelical Movement That Failed a Generation

Jon Ward

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