15 Top religion books like Christianity in Latin America: A History by Justo L. González

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Christianity in Latin America: A History

By: Justo L. González

4.19

Format: 344 pages, Paperback

Christianity has had an undeniable impact on Latin America, which has in turn transformed Christian…

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1. The Cost of Discipleship

By: Dietrich Bonhoeffer

4.30

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

One of the most important theologians of the twentieth century illuminates the relationship between… read more

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  • theology
  • christianity
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"When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die."

-Dietrich Bonhoeffer, The Cost of Discipleship

"Discipleship is not an offer that man makes to Christ."

-Dietrich Bonhoeffer, The Cost of Discipleship

"Only he who believes is obedient, and only he who is obedient believes."

-Dietrich Bonhoeffer, The Cost of Discipleship

"Strict exercise of self-control is an essential feature of the Christian's life."

-Dietrich Bonhoeffer, The Cost of Discipleship

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2. 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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  • christianity
  • christian
  • nonfiction
  • theology
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3. Emotionally Healthy Spirituality: Unleash a Revolution in Your Life In Christ

By: Peter Scazzero

3.65

Format: 135 pages, Hardcover

What Are You Missing? Peter Scazzero learned the hard way: you can't be spiritually mature while re… read more

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  • christianity
  • christian
  • nonfiction
  • theology
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4. God Is in the Manger: Reflections on Advent and Christmas

By: Dietrich Bonhoeffer , O.C. Dean Jr.

3.66

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

"There are only two places where the powerful and great in this world lose their courage, tremble i… read more

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  • christian
  • theology
  • christianity
  • religion
  • nonfiction
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5. Grasping God's Word: A Hands-On Approach to Reading, Interpreting, and Applying the Bible

By: J. Scott Duvall , J. Daniel Hays

4.43

Format: 320 pages,

Grasping God's Word has proven itself in classrooms across the country as an invaluable help to stu… read more

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  • christian
  • theology
  • christianity
  • religion
  • nonfiction
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6. A Tale of Two Cities

By: Charles Dickens , Hablot Knight Browne , Richard Maxwell

3.87

Format: 489 pages, Paperback

A Tale of Two Cities is Charles Dickens’s great historical novel, set against the violent upheaval … read more

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"We'll start to forget a place once we left it"

-Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

"Tell the Wind and the Fire where to stop; not me."

-Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

"A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self."

-Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times."

-Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

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7. 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

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  • christian
  • theology
  • christianity
  • religion
  • nonfiction
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8. 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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  • 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

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9. Phantastes

By: George MacDonald

3.48

Format: 93 pages, Paperback

"I was dead, and right content," the narrator says in the penultimate chapter of Phantastes. C.S. L… read more

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  • christian

10. The Spirit of the Disciplines : Understanding How God Changes Lives

By: Dallas Willard

3.43

Format: 375 pages, Paperback

How to Live as Jesus LivedDallas Willard, one of today's most brilliant Christian thinkers and auth… read more

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  • christianity
  • christian
  • nonfiction
  • theology
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11. The Weight of Glory

By: C.S. Lewis

4.38

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

The classic Weight of Glory by C.S. Lewis, the most important Christian writer of the 20th century,… read more

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  • theology
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"He who has God and everything else has no more than he who has God only."

-C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory

"Never, in peace or war, commit your virtue or your happiness to the future."

-C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory

"Have courage, dear heart, for there is nothing to be afraid of and never has been."

-C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory

"Next to the Blessed Sacrament itself, your neighbor is the holiest object presented to your senses."

-C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory

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12. Reflections on the Psalms

By: C.S. Lewis

3.75

Format: None pages, Paperback

Lewis writes here about the difficulties he has met or the joys he has gained in reading the Psalms… read more

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  • christian
  • theology
  • christianity
  • religion
  • nonfiction

13. 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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14. The Lost History of Christianity: The Thousand-Year Golden Age of the Church in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia—and How It Died

By: Philip Jenkins

4.07

Format: 253 pages, Hardcover

In this groundbreaking book, renowned religion scholar Philip Jenkins offers a lost history, reveal… read more

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15. Out of the Silent Planet (The Space Trilogy, #1)

By: C.S. Lewis

3.93

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

In the first novel of C.S. Lewis's classic science fiction trilogy, Dr Ransom, a Cambridge academic… read more

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  • christian
  • religion
"The love of knowledge is a kind of madness."

-C.S. Lewis, Out of the Silent Planet (The Space Trilogy, #1)

"A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered."

-C.S. Lewis, Out of the Silent Planet (The Space Trilogy, #1)

"There I drank life because death was in the pool. That was the best of drinks save one."

-C.S. Lewis, Out of the Silent Planet (The Space Trilogy, #1)

"And I say also this. I do not think the forest would be so bright, nor the water so warm, nor love so sweet, if there were no danger in the lakes."

-C.S. Lewis, Out of the Silent Planet (The Space Trilogy, #1)

16. The Last Sin Eater

By: Francine Rivers

3.74

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

1999 Gold Medallion Award winner! A repackage of Francine Rivers's beloved novel, now with stunning… read more

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17. The Screwtape Letters

By: C.S. Lewis

4.27

Format: 222 pages, Kindle Edition

A Masterpiece of Satire on Hell’s Latest Novelties and Heaven’s Unanswerable Answer C.S. Lewis’s T… read more

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"It is always the novice who exaggerates."

-C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

"I do not expect old heads on young shoulders."

-C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

"For the Present is the point at which time touches eternity."

-C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

"Music. A meaningless acceleration in the rhythm of celestial experience."

-C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

18. The Holiness of God

By: R.C. Sproul

4.33

Format: 201 pages, Paperback

Central to God's character is the quality of holiness. Yet, even so, most people are hard-pressed t… read more

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19. Mapping Your Academic Career: Charting the Course of a Professor's Life

By: Gary M. Burge

3.74

Format: 646 pages, Paperback

You're finishing your first year of teaching. It's been exciting and gratifying, but there've been … read more

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20. The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom

By: John Sherrill , Elizabeth Sherrill , Corrie ten Boom

3.81

Format: None pages,

At one time Corrie ten Boom would have laughed at the idea that there would ever be a story to tell… read more

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21. Gentle and Lowly: The Heart of Christ for Sinners and Sufferers

By: Dane C. Ortlund

4.52

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Christians know that God loves them, but often think that he is perpetually disappointed and frustr… read more

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"Looking inside ourselves, we can anticipate only harshness from heaven. Looking out to Christ, we can anticipate only gentleness."

-Dane C. Ortlund, Gentle and Lowly: The Heart of Christ for Sinners and Sufferers

"The fall also entrenched in our minds dark thoughts of God, thoughts that are only dug out over multiple exposures to the gospel over many years. Perhaps Satan’s greatest victory in your life today i…"

-Dane C. Ortlund, Gentle and Lowly: The Heart of Christ for Sinners and Sufferers

"John's point in 13:1 is that in going to the cross, Jesus did not retain something for himself, the way we tend to do when we seek to love others sacrificially. He does not love like us. We love unti…"

-Dane C. Ortlund, Gentle and Lowly: The Heart of Christ for Sinners and Sufferers

"It is one thing, as a child, to be told your father loves you. You believe him. You take him at his word. But it is another thing, unutterably more real, to be swept up in his embrace, to feel the wa…"

-Dane C. Ortlund, Gentle and Lowly: The Heart of Christ for Sinners and Sufferers

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22. Everything Sad Is Untrue

By: Daniel Nayeri

4.32

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

At the front of a middle school classroom in Oklahoma, a boy named Khosrou (whom everyone calls "Da… read more

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"Every story is the sound of a storyteller begging to stay alive."

-Daniel Nayeri, Everything Sad Is Untrue

"I won't tell you about her yet, because sometimes love has to be kept secret. If other people find out, they will attack it."

-Daniel Nayeri, Everything Sad Is Untrue

"Sometimes you just want somebody to look at a thing with you and say, "Yes. That is a thing you're looking at. You haven't lied to yourself."

-Daniel Nayeri, Everything Sad Is Untrue

"Maybe there isn’t just one person designated for everybody. Maybe there’s a lot more to it---maybe you choose and you practice, and that’s what makes the love true."

-Daniel Nayeri, Everything Sad Is Untrue

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23. The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry: How to Stay Emotionally Healthy and Spiritually Alive in the Chaos of the Modern World

By: John Mark Comer

4.53

Format: 286 pages, Hardcover

"Who am I becoming?" That was the question nagging pastor and author John Mark Comer. Outwardly, he… read more

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"Hurry is violence on the soul."

-John Mark Comer, The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry: How to Stay Emotionally Healthy and Spiritually Alive in the Chaos of the Modern World

"In the cruciform kingdom, only the bad things die: image and status and bragging rights, all vanity."

-John Mark Comer, The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry: How to Stay Emotionally Healthy and Spiritually Alive in the Chaos of the Modern World

"The point of a trellis isn’t to make the vines stand up straight in neat rows, but rather to attain a rich, deep glass of wine. It’s to create space for the vine to grow and bear fruit."

-John Mark Comer, The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry: How to Stay Emotionally Healthy and Spiritually Alive in the Chaos of the Modern World

"The Hebrew word Shabbat means ‘to stop.’ But it can also be translated ‘to delight.’ It has this dual idea of stopping and also of joying in God and our lives in his world. The Sabbath is an entire d…"

-John Mark Comer, The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry: How to Stay Emotionally Healthy and Spiritually Alive in the Chaos of the Modern World

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24. All My Knotted-Up Life: A Memoir

By: Beth Moore

4.47

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

New York Times, Publishers Weekly, and Wall Street Journal bestseller! An incredibly thoughtful,… read more

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  • christianity
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"Once you've broken to pieces, the luxury of imagining yourself unbreakable evaporates."

-Beth Moore, All My Knotted-Up Life: A Memoir

"You want to know how to love me? Love my children. You want to be good to me? Be good to my children."

-Beth Moore, All My Knotted-Up Life: A Memoir

"A teenager doesn't know she's still a child. A teenager feels like an adult, I suppose primarily because her outside, her flesh and her face, her body, her size, her width and height, look like - and…"

-Beth Moore, All My Knotted-Up Life: A Memoir

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25. The Four Loves

By: C.S. Lewis

4.17

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

A repackaged edition of the revered author's classic work that examines the four types of human lov… read more

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  • christian
  • theology
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"All that is not eternal is eternally out of date."

-C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

"To know that one is dreaming is to be no longer perfectly asleep."

-C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

"El amor empieza a ser un demonio desde el momento en que comienza a ser un dios."

-C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

"People who bore one another should meet seldom; people who interest one another, often."

-C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

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26. For the Life of the World: Theology That Makes a Difference (Theology for the Life of the World)

By: Miroslav Volf

4.00

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Christianity Today 2020 Book Award (Award of Merit, Theology/Ethics) Outreach 2020 Recommended Reso… read more

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27. Christianity in Latin America: A History

By: Justo L. González

4.19

Format: 344 pages, Paperback

Christianity has had an undeniable impact on Latin America, which has in turn transformed Christian… read more

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  • christian
  • history
  • church history
  • theology
  • christianity
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • latin american history
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28. The Soul of the American University Revisited: From Protestant to Postsecular

By: George M. Marsden

4.08

Format: 488 pages, Hardcover

The Soul of the American University is a classic and much discussed account of the changing roles o… read more

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  • history
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29. The Kingdom of God in Africa: A History of African Christianity

By: Mark Shaw

4.38

Format: 424 pages, Kindle Edition

African Christianity is not an imported religion but rather one of the oldest forms of Christianity… read more

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30. Christianities in Asia

By: Peter C. Phan

3.41

Format: 290 pages, Paperback

Christianity in Asia explores the history, development, and current state of Christianity across th… read more

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16 Best nonfiction books like Christianity in Latin America: A History by Justo L. González

Transform Your Habits

The Cost of Discipleship

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

4.30

Transform Your Habits

Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God

Timothy J. Keller

4.35

Transform Your Habits

Emotionally Healthy Spirituality: Unleash a Revolution in Your Life In Christ

Peter Scazzero

3.65

Transform Your Habits

God Is in the Manger: Reflections on Advent and Christmas

Dietrich Bonhoeffer , O.C. Dean Jr.

3.66

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2.67

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George MacDonald

3.48

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None , Andrew Peterson

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