Tolkien's Ordinary Virtues: Exploring the Spiritual Themes of the Lord of the Rings
By: Mark Eddy Smith
3.82
Format: 340 pages, Paperback
For Christians who are fans of Tolkien, Smith compares the tales of the Hobbits to those of spiritu…
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1. St. Francis of Assisi
By: G.K. Chesterton , Joseph F. Girzone
3.94
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Francis of Assisi is, after Mary of Nazareth, perhaps the greatest saint in the Christian calendar,… read more
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"The moment sex ceases to be a servant it becomes a tyrant."-G.K. Chesterton, St. Francis of Assisi
"The objection to an aristocracy is that it is a priesthood without a god."-G.K. Chesterton, St. Francis of Assisi
"The modern mind is hard to please; and it generally calls the way of Godfrey ferocious and the way of Francis fanatical. That is, it calls any moral method unpractical, when it has just called any pr…"-G.K. Chesterton, St. Francis of Assisi
"I beseech you, little brothers, that you be as wise as brother Daisy and brother dandelion; for never do they lie awake thinking of tomorrow, yet they have gold crowns like kings and emperors or like…"-G.K. Chesterton, St. Francis of Assisi
2. Evil and the Justice of God
By: N.T. Wright
4.02
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
Merit Award, 2007 Christianity Today Theology/Ethics Book With every earthquake and war, understand… read more
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- audiobook
"Don’t misunderstand me. The terrorist actions of Al-Qaeda were and are unmitigatedly evil. But the astonishing naivety which decreed that America as a whole was a pure, innocent victim, so that the w…"-N.T. Wright, Evil and the Justice of God
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4. A Hobbit, a Wardrobe, and a Great War: How J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis Rediscovered Faith, Friendship, and Heroism in the Cataclysm of 1914-18
By: Joseph Loconte
3.99
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The untold story of how the First World War shaped the lives, faith, and writings of J. R. R. Tolki… read more
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5. Tolkien's Ordinary Virtues: Exploring the Spiritual Themes of the Lord of the Rings
By: Mark Eddy Smith
3.82
Format: 340 pages, Paperback
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- christian
- theology
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- religion
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- literary criticism
6. Bilbo's Last Song
By: J.R.R. Tolkien , Pauline Baynes
4.50
Format: 168 pages, Hardcover
Bilbo's Last Songis considered by many to be Tolkien's epilogue to his classic work The Lord of the… read more
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7. God in the Dock: Essays on Theology and Ethics
By: C.S. Lewis , Walter Hooper
3.69
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
"Lewis struck me as the most thoroughly converted man I ever met," observes Walter Hooper in the pr… read more
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8. When the Church Was Young: Voices of the Early Fathers
By: Marcellino D'Ambrosio
4.82
Format: None pages, Paperback
If the word trinityisn't in Scripture, why is it such an important part of our faith? And if the Bi… read more
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9. The Wisdom of the Shire: A Short Guide to a Long and Happy Life
By: Peter S. Beagle , Noble Smith
5.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
In The Wisdom of the Shire,Noble Smith sheds a light on the life-changing ideas tucked away inside … read more
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10. The Dolorous Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ: From the Visions of Anne Catherine Emmerich
By: Anne Catherine Emmerich
4.38
Format: None pages, Paperback
The book that inspired the blockbuster film, The Passion of the Christ. Faithful to the Biblical ac… read more
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11. The God Who Is There
By: James W. Sire , Francis A. Schaeffer
3.20
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
For over thirty yearsThe God Who Is Therehas been the landmark book that changed the way the church… read more
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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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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. How Should We Then Live? The Rise and Decline of Western Thought and Culture
By: Francis A. Schaeffer
3.56
Format: None pages, Paperback
In dit boek, dat ontstaan is naar aanleiding van de gelijknamige televisie serie, neemt de auteur o… read more
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15. The Gospel According to Tolkien: Visions of the Kingdom in Middle-Earth
By: Ralph C. Wood
2.65
Format: 34 pages, Paperback
Readers have repeatedly called The Lord of the Ringsthe most important book of our age--absorbing a… read more
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16. Frodo's Journey: Discover the Hidden Meaning of The Lord of the Rings
By: Joseph Pearce
3.00
Format: 81 pages, Paperback
J. R. R. Tolkien's magnum opus, The Lord of the Rings has been beloved for generations, selling mil… read more
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17. Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life
By: C.S. Lewis
4.19
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Lifeis a partial autobiography describing Lewis' conversion… read more
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18. 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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19. Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer
By: C.S. Lewis
4.31
Format: 66 pages, Paperback
"We want to know not how we should pray if we were perfect but how we should pray being as we now a… read more
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20. The Pilgrim's Regress
By: C.S. Lewis , Michael Hague
4.40
Format: 205 pages, Paperback
The first book written by C. S. Lewis after his conversion, The Pilgrim's Regressis, in a sense, th… read more
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21. The Lord and His Prayer
By: N.T. Wright
0.00
Format: 24 pages, Paperback
Taking the Lord's Prayer clause by clause, Wright locates this prayer within the historical life an… read more
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22. What Christians Believe
By: C.S. Lewis
3.80
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
The Essentials Explained Master storyteller and essayist C. S. Lewis here tackles the central quest… read more
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23. The Fall of Númenor: and Other Tales from the Second Age of Middle-earth
By: J.R.R. Tolkien
4.32
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
J.R.R. Tolkien’s writings on the Second Age of Middle-earth, collected for the first time in one vo… read more
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24. Miracles
By: C.S. Lewis
4.05
Format: 294 pages, Paperback
‘The central miracle asserted by Christians is the Incarnation. They say that God became Man. Every… read more
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"Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature."-C.S. Lewis, Miracles
"Sexual intercourse is rapidly becoming the one thing venerated in a world without veneration."-C.S. Lewis, Miracles
"In Science we have been reading only the notes to a poem; in Christianity we find the poem itself."-C.S. Lewis, Miracles
"Death is a safety-device because, once Man has fallen, natural immortality would be the one utterly hopeless destiny for him."-C.S. Lewis, Miracles
25. The Lost World of the Flood: Mythology, Theology, and the Deluge Debate (Volume 5) (The Lost World Series)
By: Tremper Longman III
4.00
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
"The flood continued forty days on the earth; and the waters increased, and bore up the ark, and it… read more
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26. Speechless: Controlling Words, Controlling Minds
By: Michael J. Knowles
4.25
Format: 256 pages, ebook
In Speechless: Controlling Words, Controlling Minds Knowles writes: How the “free speech absolutist… read more
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27. C.S. Lewis: Writer, Scholar, Seeker
By: Sorina Higgins
3.54
Format: 3 pages, Audible Audio
Although his career is much richer and more varied than a single series of tales for children, Cliv… read more
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28. That All Shall Be Saved: Heaven, Hell, and Universal Salvation
By: David Bentley Hart
4.26
Format: 232 pages, Hardcover
The great fourth-century church father Basil of Caesarea once observed that, in his time, most Chri… read more
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"As far as I am concerned, anyone who hopes for the universal reconciliation of all creatures with God must already believe that this would be the best possible ending to the Christian story; and such…"-David Bentley Hart, That All Shall Be Saved: Heaven, Hell, and Universal Salvation
"Really, on the whole, Christians rarely pay particularly close attention to what the Bible actually says, for the simple reason that the texts defy synthesis in a canon of exact doctrines, and yet mo…"-David Bentley Hart, That All Shall Be Saved: Heaven, Hell, and Universal Salvation
29. The Socratic Method: A Practitioner's Handbook
By: Ward Farnsworth
4.27
Format: 243 pages, Hardcover
A thinking person's guide to a better life. Ward Farnsworth explains what the Socratic method is, h… read more
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30. The World of J.R.R. Tolkien
By: Dimitra Fimi
4.14
Format: None pages, Audible Audio
Though there has been some contention over the title, J.R.R. Tolkien is regarded by many as the fat… read more
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31. Getting To Know Jesus
By: George MacDonald
4.09
Format: 149 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Twelve sermons by a 19th century Scottish minister discuss the life of Jesus Christ and how to put … read more
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