On Being a Christian
10 best books like On Being a Christian (Hans Küng): Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy, How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe , Dogmatics in Outline, The Politics of Jesus, Justification: God's Plan & Paul's Vision, The New Testament and the People of God, Letters and Papers from Prison, Brother to a Dragonfly, The Myth of a Christian Nation: How the Quest for Political Power Is Destroying the Church, Talk Yourself Better: A Confused Person's Guide to Therapy, Counselling and Self-Help
Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy
| Author | Eric Metaxas |
| ISBN | 1595551387 |
As Adolf Hitler and the Nazis seduced a nation, bullied a continent, and attempted to exterminate the Jews of Europe, a small number of dissidents and saboteurs worked to dismantle the Third Reich from the inside. One of these was Dietrich Bonhoeffer--a pastor and author, known as much for such spiritual...
How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe
| Author | Thomas Cahill |
| ISBN | 0385418493 |
From the fall of Rome to the rise of Charlemagne - the "dark ages" - learning, scholarship, and culture disappeared from the European continent. The great heritage of western civilization - from the Greek and Roman classics to Jewish and Christian works - would have been utterly lost were it not for the...
Barth stands before us as the greatest theologian of the twentieth century, yet the massive corpus of work which he left behind, the multi volume Church Dogmatics, can seem daunting and formidable to readers today. Fortunately his Dogmatics in Outline first published in English in 1949, contains...
| Author | John Howard Yoder |
| ISBN | 0802807348 |
Tradition has painted a portrait of a Savior who stands aloof from governmental concerns and who calls his disciples to an apolitical life. But such a picture of Jesus is far from accurate, according to John Howard Yoder. This watershed work in New Testament ethics leads us to a Savior who was deeply concerned...
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...
| Author | N.T. Wright |
| ISBN | 0800626818 |
Part of a five-volume project on the theological questions surrounding the origins of Christianity, this book offers a reappraisal of literary, historical and theological readings of the New Testament, arguing for a form of "critical realism" that facilitates different readings of the text.
Provides...
Letters and Papers from Prison
| Author | Dietrich Bonhoeffer |
| ISBN | 0684838273 |
One of the great classics of prison literature, Letters and Papers from Prison effectively serves as the last will and testament of the Lutheran theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a young German pastor who was executed by the Nazis in 1945 for his part in the “officers’...
| Author | Will D. Campbell |
| ISBN | 0826400329 |
"We're all bastards, but God loves us anyway." This was Will Campbell's response to an avowed atheist who asked him to define Christianity in 10 words.
This is a memoir of two brothers who grew up poor in rural Mississippi in the 30's. They idolized each other, but took different paths. Our author...
The Myth of a Christian Nation: How the Quest for Political Power Is Destroying the Church
| Author | Gregory A. Boyd |
| ISBN | 0310267315 |
The church was established to serve the world with Christ-like love, not to rule the world. It is called to look like a corporate Jesus, dying on the cross for those who crucified him, not a religious version of Caesar. It is called to manifest the kingdom of the cross in contrast to the kingdom of the sword....
Talk Yourself Better: A Confused Person's Guide to Therapy, Counselling and Self-Help
| Author | Ariane Sherine |
| ISBN | 1472141334 |
'Brilliant - makes a baffling world comprehensible' - Jeremy Vine
'What an excellent, long-overdue idea! A super-accessible guide through the bewildering marketplace of modern therapy to ease our noble search for help' - Derren Brown
So you've decided you want to try therapy....
The Community of the Beloved Disciple
| Author | Raymond E. Brown |
| ISBN | 0809121743 |
After literally decades of study of the Gospel of John, during which he amassed an encyclopedic knowledge of the scholarly work on the subject, Ray Brown gained a profound sense of the dynamics of the early Christian community from which this gospel emerged. In this engrossing study, he presents his...
| Author | Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn |
| ISBN | 9146120513 |
Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn (Russian: Александр Иса́евич Солженицын) was a Soviet and Russian novelist, dramatist, and historian. Through his writings he helped to make the world aware of the Gulag, the Soviet Union's forced labor camp system—particularly...
The Mission of God: Unlocking the Bible's Grand Narrative
| Author | Christopher J.H. Wright |
| ISBN | 0830825711 |
Winner, 2007 Christianity Today Missions/Global Affairs Book Most Christians would agree that the Bible provides a basis for mission. But Christopher Wright boldly maintains that mission is bigger than that--there is in fact a missional basis for the Bible! The entire Bible is generated by and is...
Good Vibes, Good Life: How Self-Love Is the Key to Unlocking Your Greatness
A beautifully designed book full of inspiring quotes and tried-and-tested wisdom on using positivity to create a life you love.
How can you learn to truly love yourself? How can you transform negative emotions into positive ones? Is it possible to find lasting happiness?
In this...
