8 Best philosophy books like Seeing God: The Beatific Vision in Christian Tradition by Hans Boersma

Cover of Seeing God: The Beatific Vision in Christian Tradition by Hans Boersma

Seeing God: The Beatific Vision in Christian Tradition

By: Hans Boersma

4.45

Format: 488 pages, Hardcover

Winner of the  Christianity Today  Book Award in Theology/Ethics (2019) To see God is our heart’s d…

If you liked the philosophy plot in Seeing God: The Beatific Vision in Christian Tradition by Hans Boersma , here is a list of 8 books like this:

Cover of Every Good Endeavor: Connecting Your Work to God's Plan for the World by Timothy J. Keller, Katherine Leary Alsdorf

1. Every Good Endeavor: Connecting Your Work to God's Plan for the World

By: Timothy J. Keller , Katherine Leary Alsdorf

4.29

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author of The Prodigal Prophet Timothy Keller shows how God calls on eac… read more

Similar categories in Timothy J. Keller's Every Good Endeavor: Connecting Your Work to God's Plan for the World book and Hans Boersma's Seeing God: The Beatific Vision in Christian Tradition

  • faith
  • christian
  • spirituality
  • theology
"It (idolatry) means turning a good thing into an ultimate thing."

-Timothy J. Keller, Every Good Endeavor: Connecting Your Work to God's Plan for the World

"Two things we want so desperately, glory and relationship, can coexist only in God."

-Timothy J. Keller, Every Good Endeavor: Connecting Your Work to God's Plan for the World

"Community service has become a patch for morality. You can devote your life to community service and be a total schmuck."

-Timothy J. Keller, Every Good Endeavor: Connecting Your Work to God's Plan for the World

"The great danger is to always single out some aspect of God’s good creation and identify it, rather than alien intrusion of sin, as the villain."

-Timothy J. Keller, Every Good Endeavor: Connecting Your Work to God's Plan for the World

Cover of The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (Chronicles of Narnia, #3) by C.S. Lewis, Pauline Baynes

2. The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (Chronicles of Narnia, #3)

By: C.S. Lewis , Pauline Baynes

4.09

Format: 248 pages, Hardcover

NARNIA... the world of wicked dragons and magic spells, where the very best is brought out of even … read more

Similar categories in C.S. Lewis's The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (Chronicles of Narnia, #3) book and Hans Boersma's Seeing God: The Beatific Vision in Christian Tradition

  • christian
"Courage, dear heart."

-C.S. Lewis, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (Chronicles of Narnia, #3)

"Adventures are never fun while you're having them."

-C.S. Lewis, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (Chronicles of Narnia, #3)

"Extraordinary things only happen to extraordinary people."

-C.S. Lewis, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (Chronicles of Narnia, #3)

"There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it."

-C.S. Lewis, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (Chronicles of Narnia, #3)

Cover of Liturgy of the Ordinary: Sacred Practices in Everyday Life by Tish Harrison Warren

3. Liturgy of the Ordinary: Sacred Practices in Everyday Life

By: Tish Harrison Warren

4.08

Format: 31 pages, Paperback

Many of us go through the day feeling like we don't have time for God. But God can become present t… read more

Similar categories in Tish Harrison Warren's Liturgy of the Ordinary: Sacred Practices in Everyday Life book and Hans Boersma's Seeing God: The Beatific Vision in Christian Tradition

  • faith
  • christian
  • theology

4. 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

Similar categories in C.S. Lewis's On the Incarnation book and Hans Boersma's Seeing God: The Beatific Vision in Christian Tradition

5. Born Again

By: Charles W. Colson

4.58

Format: 226 pages, Paperback

In 1974 Charles W. Colson pleaded guilty to Watergate-related offenses and, after a tumultuous inve… read more

Similar categories in Charles W. Colson's Born Again book and Hans Boersma's Seeing God: The Beatific Vision in Christian Tradition

6. Holy Scripture

By: John B. Webster

1.80

Format: 76 pages, Paperback

John Webster argues that, whereas any understanding of scripture must be subject to appropriate tex… read more

Similar categories in John B. Webster's Holy Scripture book and Hans Boersma's Seeing God: The Beatific Vision in Christian Tradition

Cover of Tales from the Perilous Realm by J.R.R. Tolkien

7. Tales from the Perilous Realm

By: J.R.R. Tolkien

4.03

Format: 178 pages, Paperback

'Four classic tales from the author of The Hobbit The fat and unheroic Farmer Giles of Ham is calle… read more

Similar categories in J.R.R. Tolkien's Tales from the Perilous Realm book and Hans Boersma's Seeing God: The Beatific Vision in Christian Tradition

"God is the Lord, of angels, and of men... and of elves. Legend and History have met and fused"

-J.R.R. Tolkien, Tales from the Perilous Realm

"Bet visą tą laiką Makaliukas Klajūnas laukė pasirodant paštininkės Klyksnės su naujienomis iš žemės (net maži šuniukai žino, kad tai dažniausiai žmogžudystės ir futbolo rungtynių rezultatai, bet kart…"

-J.R.R. Tolkien, Tales from the Perilous Realm

"He was kindhearted, in a way. You know the sort of kind heart: it made him uncomfortable more often than it made him do anything; and even when he did anything, it did not prevent him from grumbling,…"

-J.R.R. Tolkien, Tales from the Perilous Realm

"Fantasy is a natural human activity. It certainly does not destroy or even insult Reason; and it does not either blunt the appetite for, nor obscure the perception of, scientific veracity. On the con…"

-J.R.R. Tolkien, Tales from the Perilous Realm

8. The Baptized Body

By: Peter J. Leithart

3.96

Format: None pages,

read more

Similar categories in Peter J. Leithart's The Baptized Body book and Hans Boersma's Seeing God: The Beatific Vision in Christian Tradition

Cover of The Prodigal God: Recovering the Heart of the Christian Faith by Timothy J. Keller

9. The Prodigal God: Recovering the Heart of the Christian Faith

By: Timothy J. Keller

4.42

Format: 139 pages, Hardcover

Newsweek called renowned minister Timothy Keller "a C. S. Lewis for the twenty-first century" in a … read more

Similar categories in Timothy J. Keller's The Prodigal God: Recovering the Heart of the Christian Faith book and Hans Boersma's Seeing God: The Beatific Vision in Christian Tradition

  • faith
  • christian
  • spirituality
  • theology
"If we say, 'I believe in Jesus,' but it doesn't affect the way we live, the answer is not that now we need to add hard work to our faith so much as that we haven't truly understood or believed in Jes…"

-Timothy J. Keller, The Prodigal God: Recovering the Heart of the Christian Faith

"Mercy and forgiveness must be free and unmerited to the wrongdoer. If the wrongdoer has to do something to merit it, then it isn't mercy, but forgiveness always comes at a cost to the one granting th…"

-Timothy J. Keller, The Prodigal God: Recovering the Heart of the Christian Faith

"The targets of this story are not "wayward sinners" but religious people who do everything the Bible requires. Jesus is pleading not so much with immoral outsiders as with moral insiders. H wants to …"

-Timothy J. Keller, The Prodigal God: Recovering the Heart of the Christian Faith

"I asked her what was so scary about unmerited free grace? She replied something like this: "If I was saved by my good works -- then there would be a limit to what God could ask of me or put me throug…"

-Timothy J. Keller, The Prodigal God: Recovering the Heart of the Christian Faith

10. What Are People For?

By: Wendell Berry

4.34

Format: None pages, Paperback

In the twenty-two essays collected here, Wendell Berry, whom "The Christian Science Monitor "called… read more

Similar categories in Wendell Berry's What Are People For? book and Hans Boersma's Seeing God: The Beatific Vision in Christian Tradition

Cover of Remaking the World: How 1776 Created the Post-Christian West by Andrew         Wilson

11. Remaking the World: How 1776 Created the Post-Christian West

By: Andrew Wilson

4.51

Format: 473 pages, Kindle Edition

How 7 Transformational Events in 1776 Paved the Way for Today’s Post-Christian West With dizzyin… read more

Similar categories in Andrew Wilson's Remaking the World: How 1776 Created the Post-Christian West book and Hans Boersma's Seeing God: The Beatific Vision in Christian Tradition

  • christian
  • history
  • church history
  • theology
  • faith
  • philosophy
Cover of Christianity and Science by Herman Bavinck

12. Christianity and Science

By: Herman Bavinck

4.44

Format: 188 pages, Kindle Edition

This Companion to Theologian Herman Bavinck’s Christian Worldview Explores Christianity’s Contribut… read more

Similar categories in Herman Bavinck's Christianity and Science book and Hans Boersma's Seeing God: The Beatific Vision in Christian Tradition

  • philosophy
  • theology
Cover of The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure by Jonathan Haidt

13. The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure

By: Jonathan Haidt

4.24

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

A timely investigation into the campus assault on free speech and what it means for students, educa… read more

Similar categories in Jonathan Haidt's The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure book and Hans Boersma's Seeing God: The Beatific Vision in Christian Tradition

  • philosophy
"Virtues become vices when they are carried to an extreme."

-Jonathan Haidt, The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure

"Avoiding triggers is a symptom of PTSD, not a treatment for it."

-Jonathan Haidt, The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure

"Practice the virtue of "intellectual humility." Intellectual humility is the recognition that our reasoning is so flawed, so prone to bias, that we can rarely be certain that we are right."

-Jonathan Haidt, The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure

"The college admissions process nowadays makes it harder for high school students to enjoy school and pursue intrinsic fulfillment. The process "warps the values of students drawn into a competitive f…"

-Jonathan Haidt, The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure

Cover of Made for People: Why We Drift into Loneliness and How to Fight for a Life of Friendship by Justin Whitmel Earley

14. Made for People: Why We Drift into Loneliness and How to Fight for a Life of Friendship

By: Justin Whitmel Earley

4.47

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Loneliness is the most dangerous and least talked-about epidemic--but Made for People offers a cure… read more

Similar categories in Justin Whitmel Earley's Made for People: Why We Drift into Loneliness and How to Fight for a Life of Friendship book and Hans Boersma's Seeing God: The Beatific Vision in Christian Tradition

  • faith
  • christian
  • theology
Cover of Leadership and Emotional Sabotage: Resisting the Anxiety That Will Wreck Your Family, Destroy Your Church, and Ruin the World by Joe Rigney

15. Leadership and Emotional Sabotage: Resisting the Anxiety That Will Wreck Your Family, Destroy Your Church, and Ruin the World

By: Joe Rigney

4.54

Format: 120 pages, Hardcover

Who are you when the teeth come out? For every true act of leadership, there is an equal and mo… read more

Similar categories in Joe Rigney's Leadership and Emotional Sabotage: Resisting the Anxiety That Will Wreck Your Family, Destroy Your Church, and Ruin the World book and Hans Boersma's Seeing God: The Beatific Vision in Christian Tradition

  • christian
  • theology
"The Scriptures regularly use the metaphor of a body to speak about human social life. The church is the body of Christ, with many members (1 Cor. 12). Marriage is a “one flesh"

-Joe Rigney, Leadership and Emotional Sabotage: Resisting the Anxiety That Will Wreck Your Family, Destroy Your Church, and Ruin the World

Cover of Biblical Critical Theory: How the Bible's Unfolding Story Makes Sense of Modern Life and Culture by Christopher Watkin

16. Biblical Critical Theory: How the Bible's Unfolding Story Makes Sense of Modern Life and Culture

By: Christopher Watkin

4.55

Format: 672 pages, Hardcover

*With a foreword from Tim Keller* A bold vision for Christians who want to engage the world in a wa… read more

Similar categories in Christopher Watkin's Biblical Critical Theory: How the Bible's Unfolding Story Makes Sense of Modern Life and Culture book and Hans Boersma's Seeing God: The Beatific Vision in Christian Tradition

  • faith
  • christian
  • philosophy
  • theology
Cover of Covenantal and Dispensational Theologies: Four Views on the Continuity of Scripture by Brent E. Parker

17. Covenantal and Dispensational Theologies: Four Views on the Continuity of Scripture

By: Brent E. Parker

4.28

Format: 266 pages, Paperback

"How do the Old and New Testaments relate to each other? What is the relationship among the biblica… read more

Similar categories in Brent E. Parker's Covenantal and Dispensational Theologies: Four Views on the Continuity of Scripture book and Hans Boersma's Seeing God: The Beatific Vision in Christian Tradition

  • christian
  • theology
Cover of Friendship with God: A Path to Deeper Fellowship with the Father, Son, and Spirit by Mike McKinley

18. Friendship with God: A Path to Deeper Fellowship with the Father, Son, and Spirit

By: Mike McKinley

4.43

Format: 168 pages, Hardcover

Based on John Owen’s Classic Text  Communion with God , This Helpful Resource Answers the Question,… read more

Similar categories in Mike McKinley's Friendship with God: A Path to Deeper Fellowship with the Father, Son, and Spirit book and Hans Boersma's Seeing God: The Beatific Vision in Christian Tradition

  • faith
  • christian
  • theology
Cover of Christian Philosophy as a Way of Life: An Invitation to Wonder by Ross D Inman

19. Christian Philosophy as a Way of Life: An Invitation to Wonder

By: Ross D Inman

4.46

Format: 191 pages, Kindle Edition

Philosophy is often seen as anything but practically relevant to everyday life. In this brief, acce… read more

Similar categories in Ross D Inman's Christian Philosophy as a Way of Life: An Invitation to Wonder book and Hans Boersma's Seeing God: The Beatific Vision in Christian Tradition

  • philosophy
  • christian
  • theology
Cover of The Atonement: An Introduction (Short Studies in Systematic Theology) by Jeremy Treat

20. The Atonement: An Introduction (Short Studies in Systematic Theology)

By: Jeremy Treat

4.62

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

A Concise Introduction to the Doctrine of the Atonement The atonement is central to Christian theol… read more

Similar categories in Jeremy Treat's The Atonement: An Introduction (Short Studies in Systematic Theology) book and Hans Boersma's Seeing God: The Beatific Vision in Christian Tradition

  • theology
Cover of Biblical Reasoning: Christological and Trinitarian Rules for Exegesis by R.B. Jamieson

21. Biblical Reasoning: Christological and Trinitarian Rules for Exegesis

By: R.B. Jamieson

4.63

Format: 315 pages, Paperback

Two experts in exegesis and dogmatics show how Christology and the Trinity are grounded in Scriptur… read more

Similar categories in R.B. Jamieson's Biblical Reasoning: Christological and Trinitarian Rules for Exegesis book and Hans Boersma's Seeing God: The Beatific Vision in Christian Tradition

  • christian
  • theology
Cover of The Reformation as Renewal: Retrieving the One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church by Matthew Barrett

22. The Reformation as Renewal: Retrieving the One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church

By: Matthew Barrett

4.29

Format: 1008 pages, Hardcover

A holistic, eye-opening history of one of the most significant turning points in Christianity, The … read more

Similar categories in Matthew Barrett's The Reformation as Renewal: Retrieving the One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church book and Hans Boersma's Seeing God: The Beatific Vision in Christian Tradition

  • christian
  • history
  • church history
  • theology
  • faith
  • philosophy
Cover of Full-Time: Work and the Meaning of Life by David L. Bahnsen

23. Full-Time: Work and the Meaning of Life

By: David L. Bahnsen

4.28

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

We were created to work, and our work provides unique meaning and purpose in our lives. Yet today w… read more

Similar categories in David L. Bahnsen's Full-Time: Work and the Meaning of Life book and Hans Boersma's Seeing God: The Beatific Vision in Christian Tradition

  • theology
Cover of Lord Jesus Christ (New Studies in Dogmatics) by Daniel J. Treier

24. Lord Jesus Christ (New Studies in Dogmatics)

By: Daniel J. Treier

4.29

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

A study of the doctrine of Christ that is biblical and historical, evangelical and ecumenical, conc… read more

Similar categories in Daniel J. Treier's Lord Jesus Christ (New Studies in Dogmatics) book and Hans Boersma's Seeing God: The Beatific Vision in Christian Tradition

  • theology
Cover of The Augustine Way: Retrieving a Vision for the Church's Apologetic Witness by Joshua D Chatraw

25. The Augustine Way: Retrieving a Vision for the Church's Apologetic Witness

By: Joshua D Chatraw

4.38

Format: 202 pages, Kindle Edition

What can we learn from Augustine about apologetics? This book shows how Augustine defended the fait… read more

Similar categories in Joshua D Chatraw's The Augustine Way: Retrieving a Vision for the Church's Apologetic Witness book and Hans Boersma's Seeing God: The Beatific Vision in Christian Tradition

  • christian
  • church history
  • theology
Cover of War in Heaven by Charles  Williams

26. War in Heaven

By: Charles Williams

3.83

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

An alternate cover for this ISBN can be found: here A battle over the most sacred object in Chri… read more

Similar categories in Charles Williams's War in Heaven book and Hans Boersma's Seeing God: The Beatific Vision in Christian Tradition

  • christian
"The telephone bell was ringing wildly, but without result, since there was no-one in the room but the corpse."

-Charles Williams, War in Heaven

"[...] the war between good and evil existed no longer, for the thing beneath the Graal was not fighting but vomiting."

-Charles Williams, War in Heaven

"An hour's conversation on literature between two ardent minds with a common devotion to a neglected poet is a miraculous road to intimacy."

-Charles Williams, War in Heaven

"There is no possible idea," Kenneth thought as he came onto the terrace, "to which the mind of man can't supply some damned alternative or other. Yet one must act."

-Charles Williams, War in Heaven

Cover of Seeing God: The Beatific Vision in Christian Tradition by Hans Boersma

27. Seeing God: The Beatific Vision in Christian Tradition

By: Hans Boersma

4.45

Format: 488 pages, Hardcover

Winner of the  Christianity Today  Book Award in Theology/Ethics (2019) To see God is our heart’s d… read more

Similar categories in Hans Boersma's Seeing God: The Beatific Vision in Christian Tradition book and Hans Boersma's Seeing God: The Beatific Vision in Christian Tradition

  • christian
  • history
  • church history
  • theology
  • faith
  • philosophy
  • spirituality
Cover of Reformed Covenant Theology: A Systematic Introduction by Harrison Perkins

28. Reformed Covenant Theology: A Systematic Introduction

By: Harrison Perkins

4.75

Format: 520 pages, Hardcover

“Perkins is an expert in his field and very much a pastor. … You will not be disappointed.” ―From t… read more

Similar categories in Harrison Perkins's Reformed Covenant Theology: A Systematic Introduction book and Hans Boersma's Seeing God: The Beatific Vision in Christian Tradition

  • theology
Cover of The Glory of Man (Theopolis Explorations) by Peter J. Leithart

29. The Glory of Man (Theopolis Explorations)

By: Peter J. Leithart

4.57

Format: 157 pages, Kindle Edition

In The Glory of Man, Peter J. Leithart responds to the sexual confusion of our age by developing an… read more

Similar categories in Peter J. Leithart's The Glory of Man (Theopolis Explorations) book and Hans Boersma's Seeing God: The Beatific Vision in Christian Tradition

  • theology
Cover of To Gaze upon God: The Beatific Vision in Doctrine, Tradition, and Practice by Samuel Parkison

30. To Gaze upon God: The Beatific Vision in Doctrine, Tradition, and Practice

By: Samuel Parkison

4.62

Format: 248 pages, Paperback

None read more

Similar categories in Samuel Parkison's To Gaze upon God: The Beatific Vision in Doctrine, Tradition, and Practice book and Hans Boersma's Seeing God: The Beatific Vision in Christian Tradition

  • theology
Cover of Redeeming Reason: A God-Centered Approach by Vern Sheridan Poythress

31. Redeeming Reason: A God-Centered Approach

By: Vern Sheridan Poythress

4.13

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Vern S. Poythress Explains the Laws of Human Reasoning and How to Apply Them in Light of the Gospel… read more

Similar categories in Vern Sheridan Poythress's Redeeming Reason: A God-Centered Approach book and Hans Boersma's Seeing God: The Beatific Vision in Christian Tradition

  • philosophy
  • christian
  • theology

17 Top christian books like Seeing God: The Beatific Vision in Christian Tradition by Hans Boersma

Transform Your Habits

Every Good Endeavor: Connecting Your Work to God's Plan for the World

Timothy J. Keller , Katherine Leary Alsdorf

4.29

Transform Your Habits

The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (Chronicles of Narnia, #3)

C.S. Lewis , Pauline Baynes

4.09

Transform Your Habits

Liturgy of the Ordinary: Sacred Practices in Everyday Life

Tish Harrison Warren

4.08

Transform Your Habits

The Prodigal God: Recovering the Heart of the Christian Faith

Timothy J. Keller

4.42

View all the books

25 Best christian books like Covenantal and Dispensational Theologies: Four Views on the Continuity of Scripture by Brent E. Parker

Transform Your Habits

Reformed Dogmatics Volume 2: God and Creation

John Bolt , Herman Bavinck , John Vriend

4.69

Transform Your Habits

Systematic Theology: An Introduction to Biblical Doctrine

Wayne Grudem

2.67

Transform Your Habits

Christianity and Liberalism

J. Gresham Machen

4.33

Transform Your Habits

2000 Years of Christ's Power Volume 1: The Age of the Early Church Fathers: Part 1

Nick R. Needham

4.12

View all the books

Never miss a story from us, get weekly updates in your inbox.