Eternal Life: A New Vision: Beyond Religion, Beyond Theism, Beyond Heaven and Hell
10 best books like Eternal Life: A New Vision: Beyond Religion, Beyond Theism, Beyond Heaven and Hell (John Shelby Spong): Jesus, Interrupted: Revealing the Hidden Contradictions in the Bible & Why We Don't Know About Them, The October Man, What Is the Bible?: How an Ancient Library of Poems, Letters, and Stories Can Transform the Way You Think and Feel About Everything, Accidental Saints: Finding God in All the Wrong People, Reflections on the Psalms, Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community, Inspired: Slaying Giants, Walking on Water, and Loving the Bible Again, Living Buddha, Living Christ, Shameless: A Sexual Reformation, The Last Week: What the Gospels Really Teach About Jesus's Final Days in Jerusalem
Jesus, Interrupted: Revealing the Hidden Contradictions in the Bible & Why We Don't Know About Them
| Author | Bart D. Ehrman |
| ISBN | 0061173932 |
Picking up where Bible expert Bart Ehrman's New York Times bestseller Misquoting Jesus left off, Jesus, Interrupted addresses the larger issue of what the New Testament actually teaches—& it's not what most people think. Here Ehrman reveals what scholars have unearthed:
•The authors...
| Author | Ben Aaronovitch |
| ISBN | 1473224314 |
Trier is famous for wine, Romans and for being Germany’s oldest city. So when a man is found dead with his body impossibly covered in a fungal rot, the local authorities know they are out of their depth.
Fortunately this is Germany, where there are procedures for everything.
Enter...
What Is the Bible?: How an Ancient Library of Poems, Letters, and Stories Can Transform the Way You Think and Feel About Everything
| Author | Rob Bell |
| ISBN | 0062194283 |
Rob Bell, the beloved author of Love Wins and What We Talk About When We Talk About God, goes deep into the Bible to show how it is more revelatory, revolutionary, and relevant than we ever imagined—and offers a cogent argument for why we need to look at it in a fresh, new way.
In Love Wins, Rob Bell...
Accidental Saints: Finding God in All the Wrong People
| Author | Nadia Bolz-Weber |
| ISBN | 1601427573 |
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
What if that person you've been trying to avoid is your best shot at grace today?
And what if that's the point?
In Accidental Saints, New York Times best-selling author Nadia Bolz-Weber invites readers into a surprising encounter with what...
Reflections on the Psalms
Some of my favorite things about this wonderful little book by my favorite author:
1. Right away, he takes on the difficult, hard-to-stomach psalms, the ones about such things as dashing the Babylonian babies against the stones. Hard stuff. I'm sure I would have avoided it.
2. This...
Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community
| Author | Dietrich Bonhoeffer |
| ISBN | 0060608528 |
In Life Together, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, renowned Christian minister, professor, and author of The Cost of Discipleship recounts his unique fellowship in an underground seminary during the Nazi years in Germany. Giving practical advice on how life together in Christ can be sustained in families...
Inspired: Slaying Giants, Walking on Water, and Loving the Bible Again
| Author | Rachel Held Evans |
| ISBN | 0718022319 |
One Woman’s Journey Back to Loving the Bible
If the Bible isn’t a science book or an instruction manual, then what is it? What do people mean when they say the Bible is inspired? When Rachel Held Evans found herself asking these questions, she began a quest to better understand what the...
Living Buddha, Living Christ
| Author | Thich Nhat Hanh |
| ISBN | 1573225681 |
When you are a truly happy Christian, you are also a Buddhist. And vice versa."
-- Thich Nhat Hanh Buddha and Christ, perhaps the two most pivotal figures in the history of humankind, each left behind a legacy of teachings and practices that have shaped the lives of billions of people over the course...
Shameless: A Sexual Reformation
Raw, intimate, and timely, Nadia Bolz-Weber’s latest book offers a full-blown overhaul of our harmful and antiquated ideas about sex, gender, and our bodies.
Christians are obsessed with sex. But not in a good way. For generations countless people have suffered pain, guilt, and judgment...
| Author | Marcus J. Borg |
| ISBN | 0060872608 |
Top Jesus scholars Marcus J. Borg & John Dominic Crossan reveal a radical & little-known Jesus. As both authors reacted to & responded to questions about Mel Gibson's blockbuster The Passion of the Christ, they discovered that many Christians are unclear on the details of events during...
| Author | Amy-Jill Levine |
| ISBN | 0060789662 |
Country Western singer Kinky Friedman often performs a song entitled "They Ain't Making Jews Like Jesus Anymore," and New Testament professor Amy–Jill Levine would agree. In fact, her career is dedicated to helping Christians and Jews understand the Jewishness of Jesus, thereby deepening the...
| Author | Thich Nhat Hanh |
| ISBN | 1594481345 |
Taming the Tiger Within is a handbook of meditations, analogies, and reflections that offer pragmatic techniques for diffusing anger, converting fear, and cultivating love in every arena of life-a wise and exquisite guide for bringing harmony and healing to one's life and relationships.
Acclaimed...
Reading the Bible Again for the First Time: Taking the Bible Seriously but Not Literally
| Author | Marcus J. Borg |
| ISBN | 0060609192 |
Many Christians mistakenly believe that their only choice is either to reconcile themselves to a fundamentalist reading of scripture (a "literal-factual" approach) or to simply reject the Bible as something that could bring meaning and value into their lives. In Reading the Bible Again for the First...
Finding God in the Waves: How I Lost My Faith and Found It Again Through Science
| Author | Mike McHargue |
| ISBN | 1101906049 |
From the host of the popular podcasts, The Liturgists Podcast and Ask Science Mike, a story of having faith, losing it, and finding it again through science—revealing how the latest in neuroscience, physics, and biology help us understand God, faith, and ourselves.
What do you do when...
How the Bible Actually Works: In Which I Explain How An Ancient, Ambiguous, and Diverse Book Leads Us to Wisdom Rather Than Answers—and Why That's Great News
| Author | Peter Enns |
| ISBN | 0062686747 |
Controversial evangelical Bible scholar, popular blogger and podcast host of The Bible for Normal People, and author of The Bible Tells Me So and The Sin of Certainty explains that the Bible is not an instruction manual or rule book but a powerful learning tool that nurtures our spiritual growth by...
Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life
| Author | Richard Rohr |
| ISBN | 0470907754 |
A fresh way of thinking about spirituality that grows throughout life In Falling Upward, Fr. Richard Rohr seeks to help readers understand the tasks of the two halves of life and to show them that those who have fallen, failed, or "gone down" are the only ones who understand "up." Most of us tend to think...
Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived
Millions of Christians have struggled with how to reconcile God's love and God's judgment: Has God created billions of people over thousands of years only to select a few to go to heaven and everyone else to suffer forever in hell? Is this acceptable to God? How is this "good news"? Troubling questions--so...
| Author | Marcus J. Borg |
| ISBN | 0060610352 |
How to have faith—or even think about God—without having to stifle modern rational thought is one of the most vital challenges facing many of us today. Marcus J. Borg, author of the bestselling Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time, traces his personal spiritual journey to the discovery of an authentic...
When Brian McLaren began offering an alternative vision of Christian faith and life in books such as "A New Kind of Christian" and "A Generous Orthodoxy, " he ignited a firestorm of praise and condemnation that continues to spread across the religious landscape. To some religious conservatives, McLaren...
The Orthodox Heretic And Other Impossible Tales
| Author | Peter Rollins |
| ISBN | 1557256349 |
Rollins has already established himself as a major voice and an astute, generative force within the emergence Christianity. The Orthodox Heretic is his most accessible and engaging work to date." - Phyllis TickleIn this bold new book Peter Rollins presents a vision of faith that has little regard...
Insurrection: To Believe Is Human To Doubt, Divine
| Author | Peter Rollins |
| ISBN | 1451609000 |
In this incendiary new work, the controversial author and speaker Peter Rollins proclaims that the Christian faith is not primarily concerned with questions regarding life after death but with the possibility of life before death.
In order to unearth this truth, Rollins prescribes a radical...
A New Kind of Christian: A Tale of Two Friends on a Spiritual Journey
A Leadership Network Publication A New Kind of Christian's conversation between a pastor and his daughter's high school science teacher reveals that wisdom for life's most pressing spiritual questions can come from the most unlikely sources. This stirring fable captures a new spirit of Christianity--where...
The King Jesus Gospel: The Original Good News Revisited
Contemporary evangelicals have built a "salvation culture" but not a "gospel culture." Evangelicals have reduced the gospel to the message of personal salvation. This book makes a plea for us to recover the old gospel as that which is still new and still fresh. The book stands on four arguments: that...
The Journal of Curious Letters
| Author | James Dashner |
| ISBN | 1590388313 |
What if every time you made a choice that had a significant consequence, a new, alternate reality was created--the life that would've been had you made the other choice? What if those new realities were in danger? What if it fell to you to save all the realities? Atticus Higginbottom, a.k.a. Tick, is an...
A Conspiracy of Love: Following Jesus in a Postmodern World
Before there were worshippers of Jesus, there were followers of Jesus. Before there were organized churches with creeds and doctrines, there were small communities of love, equality, and sharing dedicated to the practice of Jesus' teachings and committed to a wholly new way of living.
Today,...
Barking to the Choir: The Power of Radical Kinship
| Author | Gregory Boyle |
| ISBN | 1476726159 |
In a moving example of unconditional love in difficult times, the Jesuit priest and bestselling author of Tattoos on the Heart, Gregory Boyle, shares what three decades of working with gang members in Los Angeles has taught him about faith, compassion, and the enduring power of kinship.
In...
New York Times bestselling and award-winning Author Michael Lister's response to living through Hurricane Michael, the superstorm that devastated his and John Jordan's beloved Gulf Coast.
The death of retired priest Andrew Irwin begins like any other murder investigation for John Jordan,...
Silence: The Power of Quiet in a World Full of Noise
| Author | Thich Nhat Hanh |
| ISBN | 0062224697 |
The Zen master and one of the world's most beloved teachers returns with a concise, practical guide to understanding and developing our most powerful inner resource—silence—to help us find happiness, purpose, and peace.
Many people embark on a seemingly futile search for happiness,...
Convictions: How I Learned What Matters Most
| Author | Marcus J. Borg |
| ISBN | 0062269976 |
Marcus J. Borg, preeminent theologian and Bible scholar, refects on his life and how he developed his most bedrock convictions and why they matter. The result is a manifesto for all progressive Christians who seek the best path for following Jesus today. With each chapter embodying a distinct conviction,...
Minecraft: Essential Handbook
| Author | Stephanie Milton |
| ISBN | 0545669936 |
Learn how to find resources, make a shelter, craft tools, armor and weapons, and protect yourself from monsters in the world of Minecraft!
You're alone in a mysterious new world, full of hidden dangers. You have only minutes to find food and shelter before darkness falls and the monsters come...
