God, Sexuality, and the Self: An Essay 'on the Trinity'
10 best books like God, Sexuality, and the Self: An Essay 'on the Trinity' (Sarah Coakley): Fear and Trembling, God Is Love: Deus Caritas Est, Shameless: A Sexual Reformation, Jesus Feminist: An Invitation to Revisit the Bible's View of Women, After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory, Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places: A Conversation in Spiritual Theology, Augustine of Hippo: A Biography, On the Holy Spirit, The Five Books of Moses, Systematic Theology: Volume 1: The Triune God
| Author | Søren Kierkegaard |
| ISBN | 0143037579 |
Soren Kierkegaard was a Danish philosopher, theologian, and religious author interested in human psychology. He is regarded as a leading pioneer of existentialism and one of the greatest philosophers of the 19th Century.
In Fear and Trembling, Kierkegaard wanted to understand the anxiety...
God Is Love: Deus Caritas Est
| Author | Benedict XVI |
| ISBN | 1574557580 |
In today's high-tech, fast-paced world, love is often portrayed as being separate from Church teaching. With his first encyclical, Pope Benedict XVI hopes to overturn that perception and describe the essential place of love in the life of the Church. The Holy Father explains the various dimensions...
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...
Jesus Feminist: An Invitation to Revisit the Bible's View of Women
| Author | Sarah Bessey |
| ISBN | 1476717575 |
Written with poetic rhythm, a prophetic voice, and a deeply biblical foundation, this loving yet fearless book urges today’s church to move beyond man-made restrictions and fully welcome women’s diverse voices and experiences.
A freedom song for the church.
Sarah Bessey...
After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory
| Author | Alasdair MacIntyre |
| ISBN | 0268006113 |
When After Virtue first appeared in 1981, it was recognized as a significant and potentially controversial critique of contemporary moral philosophy. Newsweek called it “a stunning new study of ethics by one of the foremost moral philosophers in the English-speaking world.” Since that time,...
| Author | Eugene H. Peterson |
| ISBN | 0802828752 |
Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places reunites spirituality and theology in a cultural context where these two vital facets of Christian faith have been rent asunder. Lamenting the vacuous, often pagan nature of contemporary American spirituality, Eugene Peterson here firmly grounds spirituality...
| Author | Peter R.L. Brown |
| ISBN | 0520227573 |
This classic biography was first published thirty years ago and has since established itself as the standard account of Saint Augustine's life and teaching. The remarkable discovery recently of a considerable number of letters and sermons by Augustine has thrown fresh light on the first and last...
| Author | Basil the Great |
| ISBN | 0913836745 |
St Basil, much like St Gregory of Nazianzen, begins his work with a dense discussion of the terminology. It is easy for today's reader to miss what is important in the debate. St Basil spends the first few chapters sparring over the use of prepositions as they are applied to Father, Son, and Holy Spirit....
| Author | Robert Alter |
| ISBN | 0393019551 |
Through a distinguished career of critical scholarship and translation, Robert Alter has equipped us to read the Hebrew Bible as a powerful, cohesive work of literature. The culmination of this work, Alter's masterly new translation and probing commentary combine to give contemporary readers...
Systematic Theology: Volume 1: The Triune God
| Author | Robert W. Jenson |
| ISBN | 0195145984 |
The Triune God, together with the forthcoming second volume, The Works of God, develops a compendious statement of Christian theology in the tradition of a medieval summa, or of such modern works as those of Schleiermacher and Barth. Theology, as it is understood here, is the Christian church's continuing...
Faith Formation in a Secular Age: Responding to the Church's Obsession with Youthfulness
| Author | Andrew Root |
| ISBN | 0801098467 |
The loss or disaffiliation of young adults is a much-discussed topic in churches today. Many faith-formation programs focus on keeping the young, believing the youthful spirit will save the church. But do these programs have more to do with an obsession with youthfulness than with helping young people...
Systematic Theology: The Doctrine of God
| Author | Katherine Sonderegger |
Sonderegger's first volume in Systematic Theology has already been receiving rave reviews and endorsements. Rightfully so. The book has many virtues: beautiful writing, a spirit of reverence and awe in the presence of God, an integration of philosophical, spiritual, and systematic theology,...
God and Difference: The Trinity, Sexuality, and the Transformation of Finitude
| Author | Linn Marie Tonstad |
| ISBN | 1138938033 |
God and Difference interlaces Christian theology with queer and feminist theory for both critical and constructive ends. Linn Marie Tonstad uses queer theory to show certain failures of Christian thinking about God, gender, and sexuality. She employs queer theory to dissect trinitarian discourse...
Dancing with God: The Trinity from a Womanist Perspective
| Author | Karen Baker-Fletcher |
Dancing With God is an exploration of the divine gifts of courage and grace in the face of evil. Moreover, it is a doctrine of God as the source of that courage. Baker-Fletcher presents an understanding of the work of the Trinity with regard to the problem of crucifixion, a metaphor she uses for unnecessary...
Short-Term Mission: An Ethnography of Christian Travel Narrative and Experience
| Author | Brian M. Howell |
| ISBN | 0830839739 |
Over the past few decades, short-term mission trips have exploded in popularity. With easy access to affordable air travel, millions of American Christians have journeyed internationally for ministry, service and evangelism. Short-term trips are praised for involving many in global mission...
| Author | Alister E. McGrath |
| ISBN | 0631208429 |
This book is really best seen as a collection of biographical essays on numerous scholars who have written through the years on science and religion. Some of the better instances are his comments on Stephen J. Gould, Alfred North Whitehead (who introduced process theology), Pierre Teilhard de Chardin,...
Bible, Gender, Sexuality: Reframing the Church's Debate on Same-Sex Relationships
| Author | James V. Brownson |
| ISBN | 0802868630 |
Grapples conscientiously with biblical texts at the heart of the church's debate over same-sex relationships
This thought-provoking book by James Brownson develops a broad, cross-cultural sexual ethic from Scripture, locates current debates over homosexuality in that wider context,...
Isaac Asimov was a Russian-born, American author, a professor of biochemistry, and a highly successful writer, best known for his works of science fiction and for his popular science books.
Professor Asimov is generally considered one of the most prolific writers of all time, having written...
