7 must-read history books like Aquinas Among the Protestants by Manfred Svensson

Aquinas Among the Protestants

By: Manfred Svensson

3.94

Format: 328 pages, ebook

AQUINAS AMONG THE PROTESTANTS This major new book provides an introduction to Thomas Aquinas's infl…

If you liked the history plot in Aquinas Among the Protestants by Manfred Svensson , here is a list of 7 books like this:

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1. Scholastic Metaphysics: A Contemporary Introduction (Editiones Scholasticae, 39)

By: Edward Feser

4.34

Format: 290 pages, Paperback

Scholastic Metaphysics provides an overview of Scholastic approaches to causation, substance, essen… read more

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  • philosophy
  • religion
  • history
  • theology
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2. God and Philosophy

By: Étienne Gilson

4.15

Format: 182 pages, Paperback

In this classic work, the eminent Catholic philosopher Étienne Gilson deals with one of the most im… read more

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  • philosophy
  • religion
  • history
  • theology

3. The Consolation of Philosophy

By: Boethius , None

4.27

Format: 24 pages, Paperback

Boethius was an eminent public figure under the Gothic emperor Theodoric, and an exceptional Greek … read more

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  • religion
  • history
  • theology
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4. Confessions

By: Augustine of Hippo , Henry Chadwick , Albert Cook Outler

3.41

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Augustine's Confessions is one of the most influential and most innovative works of Latin literatur… read more

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  • philosophy
  • religion
  • biography
  • theology

5. On the Cosmic Mystery of Jesus Christ: Selected Writings

By: Robert L. Wilken , Maximus the Confessor , Paul M. Blowers

4.12

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

St Maximus' two main collections of theological reflections-his Ambigua (or "Difficulties") and his… read more

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6. The Abolition of Man

By: C.S. Lewis

3.97

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

Alternative cover for ISBN: 978-0060652944 The Abolition of Man, Lewis uses his graceful prose, del… read more

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7. 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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  • religion
  • theology
"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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8. Timothy Keller: His Spiritual and Intellectual Formation

By: Collin Hansen

4.56

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Timothy Keller takes readers behind the scenes to meet the people and understand the events that fo… read more

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  • biography
  • theology
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9. Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

By: Cal Newport

3.73

Format: 244 pages, Hardcover

Do fewer things. Work at a natural pace. Obsess over quality. From the New York Times bestsellin… read more

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  • philosophy
"What are we really doing here?"

-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

"Wouldn’t it be nice to have a job like that where you didn’t have to worry about being productive?"

-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

"The world of cognitive work lacks coherent ideas about how our efforts should be organized and measured."

-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

"The pandemic didn’t introduce this trend so much as push its worst excesses beyond the threshold of tolerability."

-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

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10. Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up

By: Abigail Shrier

4.06

Format: 350 pages, Kindle Edition

In virtually every way that can be measured, Gen Z's mental health is worse than that of previous g… read more

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"Children’s and adolescents’ sense of self is still developing. They cannot correct the interpretations or recommendations of a therapist."

-Abigail Shrier, Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up

"When I agreed with my therapist, I told her so. When I didn’t, we talked about that. And when I felt I needed to move on, I did. Which is to say: I was an adult in therapy. I had swum life’s choppy w…"

-Abigail Shrier, Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up

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

11. 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

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  • religion
  • 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

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12. All That Is in God: Evangelical Theology and the Challenge of Classical Christian Theism

By: James E. Dolezal

4.50

Format: 162 pages, Paperback

Unknown to many, increasing numbers of conservative evangelicals are denying basic tenets of classi… read more

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  • philosophy
  • religion
  • church history
  • theology
Cover of Gospel-Shaped Marriage: Grace for Sinners to Love Like Saints by Chad Van Dixhoorn

13. Gospel-Shaped Marriage: Grace for Sinners to Love Like Saints

By: Chad Van Dixhoorn

4.25

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

A Gracious, Biblical Model for Marriage Married Christians, and those preparing for marriage, kn… read more

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  • theology
Cover of On the Road with Saint Augustine: A Real-World Spirituality for Restless Hearts by James K.A. Smith

14. On the Road with Saint Augustine: A Real-World Spirituality for Restless Hearts

By: James K.A. Smith

4.28

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

This is not a book about Saint Augustine. In a way, it's a book Augustine has written about each of… read more

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  • philosophy
  • religion
  • history
  • theology
"Attainment is a goddess who quickly turns a cold shoulder."

-James K.A. Smith, On the Road with Saint Augustine: A Real-World Spirituality for Restless Hearts

"identity is our name for being found by a story someone else told."

-James K.A. Smith, On the Road with Saint Augustine: A Real-World Spirituality for Restless Hearts

"A friend is not an enabler; love doesn’t always look like agreement."

-James K.A. Smith, On the Road with Saint Augustine: A Real-World Spirituality for Restless Hearts

"When we leave home looking for happiness, we’re in search of the self we never knew."

-James K.A. Smith, On the Road with Saint Augustine: A Real-World Spirituality for Restless Hearts

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15. Thomistic Common Sense: The Philosophy of Being and the Development of Doctrine

By: Réginald Garrigou-Lagrange

4.40

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Despite living in an "information age," we are confronted by the clash of ideologies and a crisis o… read more

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  • philosophy
  • theology
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16. Participation in God: A Study in Christian Doctrine and Metaphysics

By: Andrew Davison

4.75

Format: 434 pages, Hardcover

Few ideas have excited greater interest among theologians in recent decades than the idea of 'parti… read more

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  • philosophy
  • theology
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17. Christ the Logos of Creation: An Essay in Analogical Metaphysics

By: John R. Betz

4.29

Format: 592 pages, Hardcover

The Prologue of the Gospel of John identifies Jesus Christ as the eternal Word or Logos of the Fath… read more

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  • philosophy
  • theology

18. Approaches to God

By: Jacques Maritain

3.79

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

English, French (translation) read more

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  • philosophy
  • theology
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19. Wisdom in the Face of Modernity: A Study in Thomistic Natural Theology (Faith and Reason: Studies in Catholic Theology and Philosophy)

By: Thomas Joseph White

4.26

Format: 354 pages, Paperback

This book considers the merits of Thomas Aquinas's arguments for the existence of God. Aquinas port… read more

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  • philosophy
  • theology
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20. The Philosophy Of Being

By: Henri Renard

4.17

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

The Philosophy of Being by Henri Renard is a deeply philosophical and thought-provoking book that e… read more

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21. Christian Platonism: A History

By: Alexander J. B. Hampton

4.16

Format: 512 pages, Kindle Edition

Platonism has played a central role in Christianity and is essential to a deep understanding of the… read more

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  • philosophy
  • religion
  • history
  • theology
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22. None Greater: The Undomesticated Attributes of God

By: Matthew Barrett

4.49

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

For too long, Christians have domesticated God, bringing him down to our level as if he is a God wh… read more

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  • religion
  • theology
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23. Theoretical and Practical Theology Volume 1: Prolegomena

By: Petrus Van Mastricht

4.68

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Petrus van Mastricht’s Theoretical and Practical Theology presents one of the most comprehensive me… read more

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  • philosophy
  • theology
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24. Aquinas's Shorter Summa: Saint Thomas's Own Concise Version of His Summa Theologica

By: Thomas Aquinas

4.14

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

Two years before he died, St. Thomas Aquinas probably the greatest teacher the Church has ever know… read more

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  • philosophy
  • religion
  • theology
"The objection we are dealing with argues from the standpoint of an agent that presupposes time and acts in time, but did not institute time. Hence the question about 'why God's eternal will produces …"

-Thomas Aquinas, Aquinas's Shorter Summa: Saint Thomas's Own Concise Version of His Summa Theologica

"Human nature inclines us to have recourse to petition for the purpose of obtaining from another, especially from a person of higher rank, what we hope to receive from him. So prayer is recommended to…"

-Thomas Aquinas, Aquinas's Shorter Summa: Saint Thomas's Own Concise Version of His Summa Theologica

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25. Jesus and the God of Classical Theism

By: Steven J. Duby

4.75

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

In both biblical studies and systematic theology, modern treatments of the person of Christ have ca… read more

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  • theology
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26. Holy Scripture: The Cognitive Foundation of Theology, Volume 2 (Post-Reformation Reformed Dogmatics)

By: Richard A. Muller

4.66

Format: 544 pages, Hardcover

The theology of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries is often misrepresented in church histories… read more

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  • history
  • church history
  • theology
Cover of Redemptive History and the New Testament Scriptures (Biblical and Theological Studies) by Herman N. Ridderbos

27. Redemptive History and the New Testament Scriptures (Biblical and Theological Studies)

By: Herman N. Ridderbos

4.08

Format: 104 pages, Paperback

An investigation of the New Testament canon and how it fits into redemptive history. read more

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  • theology
Cover of The Promise of His Appearing: An Exposition of Second Peter by Peter J. Leithart

28. The Promise of His Appearing: An Exposition of Second Peter

By: Peter J. Leithart

4.08

Format: 111 pages, Paperback

The second book of Peter has long troubled biblical scholars and interpreters. Not only is its auth… read more

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  • theology
Cover of Shepherds for Sale: How Evangelical Leaders Traded the Truth for a Leftist Agenda by Megan Basham

29. Shepherds for Sale: How Evangelical Leaders Traded the Truth for a Leftist Agenda

By: Megan Basham

4.37

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

“This may just be the single most important book on modern Evangelicalism in recent years. It is bo… read more

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  • religion
  • theology

30. Aquinas Among the Protestants

By: Manfred Svensson

3.94

Format: 328 pages, ebook

AQUINAS AMONG THE PROTESTANTS This major new book provides an introduction to Thomas Aquinas's infl… read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • church history
  • theology
  • philosophy
  • religion
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31. Dialogue on the Two Natures in Christ

By: Pietro Martire Vermigli

4.53

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

In this last work of Vermigli's distinguished career as a theologian, he uses a dialogue to discuss… read more

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Edward Feser

4.34

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Étienne Gilson

4.15

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3.41

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3.73

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C.S. Lewis

4.38

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Carl R. Trueman

4.57

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Andrew Wilson

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