Losing Moses on the Freeway: The 10 Commandments in America
10 best books like Losing Moses on the Freeway: The 10 Commandments in America (Chris Hedges): This Is Real and You Are Completely Unprepared: The Days of Awe as a Journey of Transformation, Justification: God's Plan & Paul's Vision, The Gospel in a Pluralist Society, How God Became King: The Forgotten Story of the Gospels, Dictionary of Paul and His Letters: A Compendium of Contempoary Biblical Scholarship, The Scandalous Gospel of Jesus: What's So Good About the Good News?, If the Church Were Christian: Rediscovering the Values of Jesus, Living the Questions: The Wisdom of Progressive Christianity, Eight Theories of Religion, Allah: A Christian Response
| Author | Alan Lew |
| ISBN | 0316739081 |
There are times in life when we are caught utterly unprepared: a death in the family, the end of a relationship, a health crisis. These are the times when the solid ground we thought we stood on disappears beneath our feet, leaving us reeling and heartbroken, as we stumble back to our faith.The Days of Awe...
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...
Dictionary of Paul and His Letters: A Compendium of Contempoary Biblical Scholarship
| Author | Gerald F. Hawthorne |
| ISBN | 0830817786 |
1994 ECPA Gold Medallion (Reference Books) TheDictionary of Paul and His Letters is a one-of-a-kind reference work. Following the format of its hightly successful companion volume, the Dictionary of Jesus and the Gospels, this Dictionary is designed to bring students, teachers, ministers and...
| 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 | 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 | 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...
Total Church: A Radical Reshaping Around Gospel and Community
| Author | Tim Chester |
| ISBN | 1433502089 |
"Church is not a meeting you attend or a place you enter," write pastors Tim Chester and Steve Timmis. "It's an identity that is ours in Christ. An identity that shapes the whole of life so that life and mission become 'total church.'" With that as their premise, they emphasize two overarching principles...
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...
Generous Justice: How God's Grace Makes Us Just
| Author | Timothy J. Keller |
| ISBN | 0525951903 |
Author of the New York Times bestseller The Reason for God and nationally renowned pastor of Redeemer Presbyterian Church Timothy Keller with his most provocative and illuminating message yet.
It is commonly thought in secular society that the Bible is one of the greatest hindrances to doing...
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 Hole in Our Gospel: What Does God Expect of Us? the Answer That Changed My Life and Might Just Change the World
| Author | Richard Stearns |
| ISBN | 0785229183 |
WHAT DOES GOD EXPECT OF US?
Is our faith just about going to church, studying the Bible and avoiding the most serious sins--or does God expect more?
Have we embraced the whole gospel or a gospel with a hole in it?
Ten years ago, Rich Stearns came face-to-face with that question...
