Kingdom Ethics: Following Jesus in Contemporary Context
10 best books like Kingdom Ethics: Following Jesus in Contemporary Context (Glen H. Stassen): The Republic, Dry, A Bad Case of Stripes, The Last Battle, The Pursuit of God: The Human Thirst for the Divine, The Screwtape Letters, The Prodigal God: Recovering the Heart of the Christian Faith, Crooked Little Vein, The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure, Surprised by Hope: Rethinking Heaven, the Resurrection, and the Mission of the Church
| Author | Plato |
| ISBN | 0140449140 |
Presented in the form of a dialogue between Socrates and three different interlocutors, this classic text is an enquiry into the notion of a perfect community and the ideal individual within it. During the conversation, other questions are raised: what is goodness?; what is reality?; and what is knowledge?...
| Author | Augusten Burroughs |
| ISBN | 0312423799 |
You may not know it, but you've met Augusten Burroughs. You've seen him on the street, in bars, on the subway, at restaurants: a twenty-something guy, nice suit, works in advertising. Regular. Ordinary. But when the ordinary person had two drinks, Augusten was circling the drain by having twelve; when...
| Author | David Shannon |
| ISBN | 0439598389 |
My daughter is in 1st grade (age 6) and is TERRIFIED of this book. I realize it is very, very popular but my daughter has a great imagination and now she is very scared of eating orange, green, and blue foods. She pretty much only eats pink/red and white foods now.
We got this book as a gift from my father...
| Author | C.S. Lewis |
| ISBN | 0007202326 |
I think this is the first book I've ever hated. And that list is pretty short. As a child, it really distressed me - I didn't understand much of it, and it confused me why its tone was so very different from the other Narnia books. Then, when I reread it a few years ago, it just pissed me off. The message about...
The Pursuit of God: The Human Thirst for the Divine
| Author | A.W. Tozer |
| ISBN | 0875093663 |
“As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God.” This thirst for an intimate relationship with God, claims A.W. Tozer, is not for a select few, but should be the experience of every follower of Christ.
Here is a masterly study of the inner life by a heart thirsting...
The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis is a classic masterpiece of religious satire that entertains readers with its sly and ironic portrayal of human life and foibles from the vantage point of Screwtape, a highly placed assistant to "Our Father Below." At once wildly comic, deadly serious, and strikingly...
The Prodigal God: Recovering the Heart of the Christian Faith
| Author | Timothy J. Keller |
| ISBN | 0525950796 |
Newsweek called renowned minister Timothy Keller "a C. S. Lewis for the twenty-first century" in a feature on his first book, The Reason for God. In that book, he offered a rational explanation of why we should believe in God. Now, in The Prodigal God, he uses one of the best-known Christian parables to...
| Author | Warren Ellis |
| ISBN | 0060723939 |
Burned-out private detective and self-styled shit magnet Michael McGill needed a wake-up call to jump-start his dead career. What he got was a virtual cattle prod to the crotch, in the form of an impossible assignment delivered directly from the president's heroin-addict chief of staff. It seems...
The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure
A timely investigation into the campus assault on free speech and what it means for students, education, and our democracy.
The generation now coming of age has been taught three Great Untruths: their feelings are always right; they should avoid pain and discomfort; and they should look for...
Surprised by Hope: Rethinking Heaven, the Resurrection, and the Mission of the Church
| Author | N.T. Wright |
| ISBN | 0061551821 |
In Surprised by Hope: Rethinking Heaven, the Resurrection, and the Mission of the Church, top-selling author and Anglican bishop, N.T. Wright tackles the biblical question of what happens after we die and shows how most Christians get it wrong. We do not “go to” heaven; we are resurrected and heaven...
Learning to Walk in the Dark
| Author | Barbara Brown Taylor |
| ISBN | 0062024353 |
From the New York Times bestselling author of An Altar in the World, Barbara Brown Taylor’s Learning to Walk in the Dark provides a way to find spirituality in those times when we don’t have all the answers.
Taylor has become increasingly uncomfortable with our tendency to associate all...
| Author | Vincent J. Donovan |
| ISBN | 1570754624 |
Donovan’s book gives readers much to ponder regarding how the message of Jesus is presented. From his work with the Masai in Tanzania, he came to realize that often the gospel message carries much cultural accretion that is not present in the New Testament, such as Western hierarchical authority...
Atonement and Violence: A Theological Conversation
| Author | John Sanders |
| ISBN | 0687342945 |
Recent years have witnessed a series of books, articles, and lectures raising serious questions about the Christian doctrine of the Atonement. While coming from a variety of sources, the questions usually center around the central issue of atonement and violence. Doesn't the Atonement promote...
Simply Jesus: A New Vision of Who He Was, What He Did, and Why He Matters
| Author | N.T. Wright |
| ISBN | 0062084399 |
In Simply Jesus, bestselling author and leading Bible scholar N.T. Wright summarizes 200 years of modern Biblical scholarship and models how Christians can best retell the story of Jesus today. In a style similar to C.S. Lewis’s popular works, Wright breaks down the barriers that prevent Christians...
Doing Christian Ethics from the Margins
| Author | Miguel A. de la Torre |
| ISBN | 1570755515 |
I found this book incredibly challenging and, except for a few issues (described below), I would have given it 5 stars. Miguel de la Torre takes a liberation theology perspective and applies it to the various questions of Christian ethics. I loved the insightful ways de la Torre evaluates American society,...
The Journey of Modern Theology: From Reconstruction to Deconstruction
| Author | Roger E. Olson |
| ISBN | 0830840214 |
Modernity has been an age of revolutions--political, scientific, industrial and philosophical. Consequently, it has also been an age of revolutions in theology, as Christians attempt to make sense of their faith in light of the cultural upheavals around them, what Walter Lippman once called the...
| Author | Philipp J. Spener |
| ISBN | 0800619536 |
This classic work, first published in 1675, inaugurated the movement in Germany called Pietism. In it a young pastor, born and raised during the devastating Thirty Years War, voiced a plea for reform of the church which made the author and his proposals famous. A lifelong friend of the philosopher Leibnitz,...
| Author | Hans Küng |
| ISBN | 0860121992 |
4 stars because I actually ended up enjoying a Catholic's take on ecclesiology and surprisingly found myself agreeing with him at various points. Though we obviously have different, ultimate conclusions, Küng also surprisingly depends almost entirely on Scripture for his biblical-theological...
