10 Best theology books like The End of Theological Education (Theological Education between the Times (TEBT)) by Ted A. Smith

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The End of Theological Education (Theological Education between the Times (TEBT))

By: Ted A. Smith

4.56

Format: 239 pages, Paperback

How to envision theological education in this time between the times      The dominant model of the…

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1. The Memory of Old Jack (Port William)

By: Wendell Berry

4.34

Format: 170 pages, Paperback

Old Jack, born just after the American Civil War and dying in contemporary times, spends one beauti… read more

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"She mourns for the future, as the past has taught her. And yet there is a rejoicing in her, persistent and unbidden as the beating of her heart."

-Wendell Berry, The Memory of Old Jack (Port William)

"The modern ignorance is in people's assumption that they can outsmart their own nature. It is in the arrogance that will believe nothing that cannot be proved, and respect nothing it cannot understan…"

-Wendell Berry, The Memory of Old Jack (Port William)

"Now when he walked in his fields and pastures and woodlands he was tramping into his mind the shape of the land, his thought becoming indistinguishable from it, so that when he came to die his intell…"

-Wendell Berry, The Memory of Old Jack (Port William)

"Sitting there, eyes shut, head tilted back, hands at rest upon his cane's crook, he seems to sink immeasurably, to float down into a well of light as warm and red as blood. He has met the sun at its …"

-Wendell Berry, The Memory of Old Jack (Port William)

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2. The Mark of the Christian

By: James W. Sire , Francis A. Schaeffer

3.00

Format: 48 pages, Paperback

"It is possible to be a Christian without showing the mark, but if we expect non-Christians to know… read more

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3. On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction

By: William Zinsser

4.24

Format: 321 pages, Paperback

On Writing Well has been praised for its sound advice, its clarity and the warmth of its style. It … read more

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"Less is more."

-William Zinsser, On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction

"Truth needs no adornment."

-William Zinsser, On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction

"Don't be kind of bold. Be bold."

-William Zinsser, On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction

"Writers are the custodians of memory..."

-William Zinsser, On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction

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4. How to Take Smart Notes: One Simple Technique to Boost Writing, Learning and Thinking - for Students, Academics and Nonfiction Book Writers

By: Sönke Ahrens

3.42

Format: 320 pages,

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5. 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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6. Gilead (Gilead, #1)

By: Marilynne Robinson

3.85

Format: 247 pages, Paperback

Nearly 25 years after Housekeeping, Marilynne Robinson returns with an intimate tale of three gener… read more

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"How I wish you could have known me in my strength."

-Marilynne Robinson, Gilead (Gilead, #1)

"Memory can make a thing seem to have been much more than it was."

-Marilynne Robinson, Gilead (Gilead, #1)

"When something ought to be true then it proves to be a very powerful truth."

-Marilynne Robinson, Gilead (Gilead, #1)

"That is to say, I pray for you. And there's an intimacy in it. That's the truth."

-Marilynne Robinson, Gilead (Gilead, #1)

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7. East of Eden

By: John Steinbeck

4.42

Format: 601 pages, Paperback

In his journal, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck called East of Eden “the first book,” and indeed … read more

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"All great and precious things are lonely."

-John Steinbeck, East of Eden

"Perhaps it takes courage to raise children.."

-John Steinbeck, East of Eden

"No one who is young is ever going to be old."

-John Steinbeck, East of Eden

"A man without words is a man without thought."

-John Steinbeck, East of Eden

8. 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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9. 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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10. Home (Gilead, #2)

By: Marilynne Robinson

3.84

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Home parallels the story told in Robinson's Pulitzer Prize-winning Gilead. It is a moving and heali… read more

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11. Resident Aliens: Life in the Christian Colony

By: William H. Willimon , Stanley Hauerwas

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

In this bold and visionary book, two leading Christian thinkers explore the "alien" status of Chris… 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. The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration

By: Isabel Wilkerson

3.69

Format: 121 pages, Hardcover

In this epic, beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson chroni… read more

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14. The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays

By: Norman Wirzba , Wendell Berry

4.34

Format: None pages, Paperback

"Here is a human being speaking with calm and sanity out of the wilderness. We would do well to hea… read more

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15. How to Stay Married: The Most Insane Love Story Ever Told

By: Harrison Scott Key

4.07

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From Harrison Scott Key, winner of the Thurber Prize for American Humor, How to Stay Married tells … read more

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"He was "as deep as bro country and possessed all the charm of an unsalted potato."

-Harrison Scott Key, How to Stay Married: The Most Insane Love Story Ever Told

"I play the drums, an instrument that has caused more divorces than any other musical instrument in history, after the banjo."

-Harrison Scott Key, How to Stay Married: The Most Insane Love Story Ever Told

"The memories do not dissolve. They cohere into captivating art films that play endlessly in the International Infidelity Film Festival of my mind."

-Harrison Scott Key, How to Stay Married: The Most Insane Love Story Ever Told

"Coco will be gone in less than two years and Pippi and Ginsburg not long after, and then it'll just be the two of us again and this weird-ass marriage."

-Harrison Scott Key, How to Stay Married: The Most Insane Love Story Ever Told

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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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17. King: A Life

By: Jonathan Eig

4.67

Format: 688 pages, Hardcover

The first full biography in decades, King mixes revelatory and exhaustive new research with brisk a… read more

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18. Martyr!

By: Kaveh Akbar

4.24

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Kaveh Akbar’s Martyr! is a paean to how we spend our lives seeking meaning—in faith, art, ourselves… read more

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19. Poverty, by America

By: Matthew Desmond

4.27

Format: 284 pages, Hardcover

Reimagining the debate on poverty, making a new and bracing argument about why it persists in Ameri… read more

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"To live and strive in modern America is to participate in a series of morally fraught systems. If a family’s entire financial livelihood depends on the value of its home, it’s not hard to understand …"

-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America

"The rest of us, on the ·other hand-we members of the protected classes-have grown increasingly· dependent on our welfare programs. In 2020 the federal government spent more than $193 billion on homeo…"

-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America

"In her book The Government-Citizen Disconnect, the political scientist Suzanne Mettler reports that 96 percent of American adults have relied on a major government program at some point in their live…"

-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America

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20. There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

By: Hanif Abdurraqib

4.40

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A poignant, personal reflection on basketball, talent and allegiance, and of course, LeBron James—f… read more

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"Heartbreak itself is a primary color. Stagnant without a series of secondary colors to activate it. Longing is an activator."

-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

"With enough repetition, anything can become a religion. It doesn’t matter if it works or not, it simply matters if a person returns."

-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

"It is a strange miracle to be able to trace your own aging, your own mortality through someone who's living alongside you, someone who has survived eras at the same time as you have in some of the sa…"

-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

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21. Reading Genesis

By: Marilynne Robinson

4.10

Format: 344 pages, Hardcover

One of our greatest novelists and thinkers presents a radiant, thrilling interpretation of the book… read more

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22. You're Only Human: How Your Limits Reflect God’s Design and Why That’s Good News

By: Kelly M. Kapic

4.40

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Work. Family. Church. Exercise. Sleep. The list of demands on our time seems to be never ending.… read more

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23. Unverfügbarkeit

By: Hartmut Rosa

4.28

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

Ein fundiertes Plädoyer für eine Gesellschaft, die der Verfügbarkeit der Welt Grenzen setzt. Das ze… read more

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"En réalité, j’ai l’impression que la structure fondamentale du désir se situe justement ici : il est propulsé par l’exigence de mettre à portée quelque chose qui ne l’est pas (encore). Et là se trouv…"

-Hartmut Rosa, Unverfügbarkeit

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24. Strange Rites: New Religions for a Godless World

By: Tara Isabella Burton

3.92

Format: 301 pages, Hardcover

A sparklingly strange odyssey through the kaleidoscope of America's new spirituality: the cults, pr… read more

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"When it comes to Remixed religion, at least, we all come out from under Severus Snape's robes."

-Tara Isabella Burton, Strange Rites: New Religions for a Godless World

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25. Zero at the Bone: Fifty Entries Against Despair

By: Christian Wiman

4.14

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Christian Wiman braids poetry, memoir, and criticism to create an inspired, career-defining work. … read more

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26. When Church Stops Working: A Future for Your Congregation Beyond More Money, Programs, and Innovation

By: Andrew Root

4.18

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

What if the solution for the decline of today's church isn't more money, people, programs, innovati… read more

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27. Circle of Hope: A Reckoning with Love, Power, and Justice in an American Church

By: Eliza Griswold

4.24

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A Pulitzer Prize winner’s intimate portrait of a church, its radical mission, and its riveting cris… read more

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28. The End of Theological Education (Theological Education between the Times (TEBT))

By: Ted A. Smith

4.56

Format: 239 pages, Paperback

How to envision theological education in this time between the times      The dominant model of the… read more

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29. After Method: Queer Grace, Conceptual Design, and the Possibility of Theology

By: Hanna Reichel

4.65

Format: 225 pages, Paperback

After Method assumes the impossibility of doing theology right–and moves beyond it. Organized as a … read more

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30. Queer Callings: Untimely Notes on Names and Desires

By: Mark D Jordan

4.33

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

A passionate exhortation to expand the ways we talk about human sex, sexuality, and gender. Twen… read more

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31. Home: 100 Poems

By: Christian Wiman

4.45

Format: 264 pages, Hardcover

Evocative poems and prose fragments about home, selected by one of the most celebrated poets of our… read more

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8 Top history books like Strange Rites: New Religions for a Godless World by Tara Isabella Burton

Transform Your Habits

The Identity Trap: A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time

Yascha Mounk

4.08

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Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World

Tom Holland

4.26

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The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth

Jonathan Rauch

4.25

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Andrew Wilson

4.51

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