Living the Questions: The Wisdom of Progressive Christianity
10 best books like Living the Questions: The Wisdom of Progressive Christianity (David L. Felten): Holy Envy: Finding God in the Faith of Others, Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger: Moving from Affluence to Generosity, Justification: God's Plan & Paul's Vision, The Gospel in a Pluralist Society, How God Became King: The Forgotten Story of the Gospels, The Weakness of God: A Theology of the Event, From Homer to Harry Potter: A Handbook on Myth and Fantasy, The Scandalous Gospel of Jesus: What's So Good About the Good News?, If the Church Were Christian: Rediscovering the Values of Jesus, Did Someone Say Totalitarianism?: 5 Interventions in the (Mis)Use of a Notion
Holy Envy: Finding God in the Faith of Others
| Author | Barbara Brown Taylor |
| ISBN | 0062406582 |
The renowned and beloved New York Times bestselling author of An Altar in the World and Learning to Walk in the Dark recounts her moving discoveries of finding the sacred in unexpected places while teaching the world’s religions to undergraduates in rural Georgia, revealing how God delights...
| Author | Ronald J. Sider |
| ISBN | 0849945305 |
Do you want to make a true difference in the world? Dr. Ron Sider does. He has, since before he first published Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger in 1978. Despite a dramatic reduction in world hunger since then, 34,000 children still die daily of starvation and preventable disease, and 1.3 billion people,...
Justification: God's Plan & Paul's Vision
| Author | Tom Wright |
| ISBN | 0830838635 |
Few issues are more central to the Christian faith than the nature, scope and means of salvation. Many have thought it to be largely a transaction that gets one to heaven. In this riveting book, N. T. Wright explains that God's salvation is radically more than this. At the heart of much vigorous debate...
The Gospel in a Pluralist Society
| Author | Lesslie Newbigin |
| ISBN | 0802804268 |
How does the gospel relate to a pluralist society? What is the Christian message in a society marked by religious pluralism, ethnic diversity, and cultural relativism? Should Christians encountering today's pluralist society concentrate on evangelism or on dialogue? How does the prevailing climate...
How God Became King: The Forgotten Story of the Gospels
| Author | N.T. Wright |
| ISBN | 0061730572 |
New Testament scholar N.T. Wright reveals how we have been misreading the Gospels for centuries, powerfully restoring the lost central story of the Scripture: that the coronation of God through the acts of Jesus was the climax of human history. Wright fills the gaps that centuries of misdirection...
| Author | John D. Caputo |
| ISBN | 0253218284 |
Applying an ever more radical hermeneutics (including Husserlian and Heideggerian phenomenology, Derridian deconstruction, and feminism), John D. Caputo breaks down the name of God in this irrepressible book. Instead of looking at God as merely a name, Caputo views it as an event, or what the name...
| Author | Matthew Dickerson |
| ISBN | 1587431335 |
The allure of fantasy continues to grow with film adaptations of The Lord of the Rings and J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter series. But how should Christians approach modern works of fantasy, especially debated points such as magic and witches?
From Homer to Harry Potter provides the historical...
| 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 | Philip Gulley |
| ISBN | 0061698768 |
“[Philip Gulley’s] vision of Christianity is grounded, gripping, and filled with uncommon sense. He is building bridges instead of boundaries, and such wisdom is surely needed now.” —Richard Rohr, O.F.M, author of Everything Belongs
Quaker minister Philip Gulley, author of...
| Author | Slavoj Žižek |
| ISBN | 1859847927 |
In some circles, a nod towards totalitarianism is enough to dismiss any critique of the status quo. Such is the insidiousness of the neo-liberal ideology, argues Slavoj Žižek. Did Somebody Say Totalitarianism? turns a specious rhetorical strategy on its head to identify a network of family resemblances...
| Author | Daniel L. Pals |
| ISBN | 0195165705 |
Why do human beings believe in divinities? Why do some seek eternal life, while others seek escape from recurring lives? Why do the beliefs and behaviors we typically call "religious" so deeply affect the human personality and so subtly weave their way through human society? Revised and updated in...
| Author | Miroslav Volf |
| ISBN | 0061927074 |
From Miroslav Volf, one of the world's foremost Christian theologians—and co-teacher, along with Tony Blair, of a groundbreaking Yale University course on faith and globalization—comes Allah, a timely and provocative argument for a new pluralism between Muslims and Christians. In a penetrating...
This is a very good basic book on the history of Christianity, which is actually used as a textbook. In fact, there is a set of detailed questions in the back which is suitable for discussion or study groups.
One of the interesting things about this book is its approach to the subject. It does not...
The Moral Vision of the New Testament: Community, Cross, New Creation: A Contemporary Introduction to New Testament Ethics
A leading expert in New Testament ethics discovers in the biblical witness a unified ethical vision—centered in the themes of community, cross and new creation—that has profound relevance in today′s world. Richard Hays shows how the New Testament provides moral guidance on the most troubling...
Evil and the Justice of God
| Author | N.T. Wright |
| ISBN | 0830833986 |
Merit Award, 2007 Christianity Today Theology/Ethics Book With every earthquake and war, understanding the nature of evil and our response to it becomes more urgent. Evil is no longer the concern just of ministers and theologians but also of politicians and the media. We hear of child abuse, ethnic...
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...
Christianity receives a lot of attention in the media, but the most frequently discussed version represents a type of Christianity that sometimes turns people away from the Church. Kissing Fish presents a Postmodern systematic theology of Progressive Christianity, a growing movement that reclaims...
20th-Century Theology: God and the World in a Transitional Age
| Author | Stanley J. Grenz |
| ISBN | 0830815252 |
The Theological Garden of the Twentieth century is a variegated spectacle of blooms - more so perhaps than any previous Christian century. As the century approaches its close, the time is right for surveying, describing, evaluating, and even projecting what seeds might germinate, grow and blossom...
