Christianity After Religion: The End of Church and the Birth of a New Spiritual Awakening
10 best books like Christianity After Religion: The End of Church and the Birth of a New Spiritual Awakening (Diana Butler Bass): Living Into Community: Cultivating Practices That Sustain Us, This Odd and Wondrous Calling: The Public and Private Lives of Two Ministers, The Fidelity of Betrayal: Towards a Church Beyond Belief, The New Christians: Dispatches from the Emergent Frontier, Salvation on the Small Screen: 24 Hours of Christian Television, The Great Emergence: How Christianity is Changing and Why, The Future of Faith, Why Did Jesus, Moses, the Buddha, and Mohammed Cross the Road?: Christian Identity in a Multi-Faith World, The Scandalous Gospel of Jesus: What's So Good About the Good News?, Living the Questions: The Wisdom of Progressive Christianity
| Author | Christine D. Pohl |
| ISBN | 0802849857 |
“This book will focus on several practices that are basic to human life. IN families, communities, and congregations that are vibrant and sturdy, we notice certain patterns in relationships. We see folks making and keeping promise, living and speaking truthfully, expressing gratitude, and offering...
| Author | Lillian Daniel |
| ISBN | 0802864759 |
This Odd and Wondrous Calling offers something different from most books available on ministry. Two people still pastoring reflect honestly here on both the joys and the challenges of their vocation. Anecdotal and extremely readable, the book covers a diversity of subjects revealing the incredible...
| Author | Peter Rollins |
| ISBN | 1557255601 |
"About 30 years ago, I came across the evocative phrase 'religionless Christianity' in Dietrich Bonhoeffer's later writings, and it has stayed with me ever since. In his new book The Fidelity of Betrayal, Peter Rollins has teased out - as Bonhoeffer never had the chance to do - profound possibilities...
| Author | Tony Jones |
| ISBN | 0787994715 |
What the "Emergent Church Movement" is all about-and why it matters to the future of Christianity Following on the questions raised by Brian McLaren in A New Kind of Christian, Tony Jones has written an engaging exploration of what this new kind of Christianity looks like. Writing "dispatches" about...
| Author | Nadia Bolz-Weber |
| ISBN | 1596270861 |
A book for every person who's ever flipped past the religious channel on cable and thought, -I haven't the faintest clue what's going on there, - or -that church doesn't seem like my church at all, - or even, -wow, so that's what happened to Kirk Cameron.- With the personalities of Christian broadcasting...
| Author | Phyllis A. Tickle |
| ISBN | 1596445750 |
From the church's birth to the reign of St. Gregory the great, to the Great Schism and through the Reformation, Phyllis Tickle notes that every 500 years the church has been rocked by massive transitions. Remarkably enough, Tickle suggests to us that we live in such a time right now. The Great Emergence...
| Author | Harvey Cox |
| ISBN | 0061755524 |
“A beautiful book and a Cox classic….Readers will be grateful that they joined him on his journey.” —E.J. Dionne Jr., author of Souled Out
“Insightful, provocative, and inspiring—I even found myself uttering a hearty evangelical ‘Amen!’” —Richard Mouw, President,...
| Author | Brian D. McLaren |
| ISBN | 1455513962 |
When four religious leaders walk across the road, it's not the beginning of a joke. It's the start of one of the most important conversations in today's world.
Can you be a committed Christian without having to condemn or convert people of other faiths? Is it possible to affirm other religious...
| Author | Peter J. Gomes |
| ISBN | 0060000732 |
Jesus came preaching, but the church wound up preaching Jesus. Why does the church insist upon making Jesus the object of its attention rather than heeding his message? Esteemed Harvard minister Peter J. Gomes believes that excessive focus on the Bible and doctrines about Jesus have led the Christian...
| Author | David L. Felten |
| ISBN | 0062109367 |
Ministers David Felten and Jeff Procter-Murphy, along with an all-star cast of Bible scholars and top church teachers, provide a primer to a church movement that encourages every Christian to “live the questions” instead of “forcing the answers.” Based on the bestselling DVD course of the...
| Author | John Shelby Spong |
| ISBN | 0060778407 |
In The Sins of Scripture, Bishop John Shelby Spong takes on a thematic exploration of the Bible, carefully analyzing those passages that inform some of our key debates, like the role of women in the church and in society, and homosexuality, to name just two. Beyond that he also looks at scriptures that...
| Author | Barbara Brown Taylor |
| ISBN | 1561011894 |
In Speaking of Sin, Barbara Brown Taylor brings her fresh perspective to a cluster of words that often cause us discomfort and have widely fallen into neglect: sin, damnation, repentance, penance, and salvation. She asks, "Why, then, should we speak of sin anymore? The only reason I can think of is because...
| Author | Philip Gulley |
| ISBN | 0062065270 |
"Noone raises provocative questions about Christianity more kindly than PhilipGulley. " —Diana Butler Bass,author of Christianity for the Rest of Us
“Everyserious Christian ought to read this book, ponder it,wrestlewith it, but above all, be grateful for its presence in today's...
| Author | Kenda Creasy Dean |
| ISBN | 0195314840 |
Based on the National Study of Youth and Religion--the same invaluable data as its predecessor, Soul Searching: The Religious and Spiritual Lives of American Teenagers--Kenda Creasy Dean's compelling new book, Almost Christian, investigates why American teenagers are at once so positive about...
Unclean: Meditations on Purity, Hospitality, and Mortality
"I desire mercy, not sacrifice." Echoing Hosea, Jesus defends his embrace of the "unclean" in the Gospel of Matthew, seeming to privilege the prophetic call to justice over the Levitical pursuit of purity. And yet, as missional faith communities are well aware, the tensions and conflicts between...
| Author | George A. Lindbeck |
| ISBN | 0664246184 |
This was a pretty heavy book. Not literally heavy, as its only 120 pages. It was a slow-going and challenging read. And it has been very influential in theology for the last few decades. Lindbeck puts forth a "post-liberal" view of theology. He discusses two different approaches to theology. First is...
A Public Faith: How Followers of Christ Should Serve the Common Good
| Author | Miroslav Volf |
| ISBN | 1587432986 |
Debates rage today about the role of religions in public life. As the world becomes increasingly interconnected, various religions come to inhabit the same space. But how do they live together, especially when each wants to shape the public realm according to the dictates of its own sacred texts and...
The Underground Church: Reclaiming the Subversive Way of Jesus
| Author | Robin Meyers |
| ISBN | 1118061594 |
A new way to follow Jesus that draws on old ways of following Him The Underground Church proposes that the faithful recapture the spirit of the early church with its emphasis on what Christians do rather than what they believe. Prominent progressive writer, speaker, and minister Robin Meyers proposes...
Speaking Christian: Why Christian Words Have Lost Their Meaning and Power - And How They Can Be Restored
Modern Christians are steeped in a language so distorted that it has become a stumbling block to the religion, says internationally renowned Bible scholar Marcus J. Borg. Borg argues that Christianity's important words, and the sacred texts and stories in which those words are embedded, have been...
Naming the Powers: The Language of Power in the New Testament
This might not be a classic, but Wink's book (and the two sequels) are frequently cited. After years of noticing such citations in other books I was reading, I figured I'd go back to the source. Wink's book does a fantastic job in making what the Bible says about spirits/demons/angels and such palpable...
