Pierced for Our Transgressions: Rediscovering the Glory of Penal Substitution

8 best books like Pierced for Our Transgressions: Rediscovering the Glory of Penal Substitution (Steve Jeffery): To Your Scattered Bodies Go, The Claw of the Conciliator, Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World, The Sword of the Lictor, The Fabulous Riverboat, The Bruised Reed, The Nature of the Atonement: Four Views, Redemption Accomplished and Applied

To Your Scattered Bodies Go

Author	Philip José Farmer
ISBN	0345419677

To Your Scattered Bodies Go is the Hugo Award-winning beginning to the story of Riverworld, Philip José Farmer's unequaled tale about life after death. When famous adventurer Sir Richard Francis Burton dies, the last thing he expects to do is awaken naked on a foreign planet along the shores of a seemingly...

The Claw of the Conciliator

Author	Gene Wolfe
ISBN	0671416162

Severian is in possession of a gem considered to be "The Claw of the Conciliator", a powerful relic of the Master of Power, a legendary figure of mythic proportions. Armed with his sword, Terminus Est, and the Claw, Severian continues his journey to Thrax, the city of his exile. Bizarre apes, strange...

Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World

Author	David Epstein
ISBN	0735214484

What's the most effective path to success in any domain? It's not what you think.

Plenty of experts argue that anyone who wants to develop a skill, play an instrument, or lead their field should start early, focus intensely, and rack up as many hours of deliberate practice as possible. If you...

The Sword of the Lictor

Author	Gene Wolfe
ISBN	0671631934

This, as well as the first two books and theoretically the last in the series, is rapidly becoming the most difficult work of SF I've ever read. Why? It's not particularly difficult to follow; the Hero's Quest is rather straightforward throughout. Nor is the main character Severian particularly uninteresting...

The Fabulous Riverboat

Author	Philip José Farmer
ISBN	0345419685

In To Your Scattered Bodies Go, Philip José Farmer introduces readers to the awesome Riverworld, a planet that had been carved into one large river on whose shores all of humanity throughout the ages has seemingly been resurrected. In The Fabulous Riverboat, Farmer tells the tale of one person whose...

The Bruised Reed

Author	Richard Sibbes
ISBN	0851517404

I think Martin Lloyd Jones' endorsement of this book is a good place to start: "I shall never cease to be grateful to...Richard Sibbs who was balm to my soul at a period in my life when I was overworked and badly overtired, and therefore subject in an unusual manner to the onslaughts of the devil...I found...

The Nature of the Atonement: Four Views

Author

James K. Beilby

A long history of biblical exegesis and theological reflection has shaped our understanding of the atonement today. The more prominent highlights of this history have acquired familiar names for the household of faith: Christus Victor, penal substitutionary, subjective, and governmental. Recently...

Redemption Accomplished and Applied

Author	John Murray
ISBN	0802811434

Read this book, and read it again.

This is by far one of the greatest works I've ever read on the subject concerning the very heart of the Christian faith: redemption. Systematically going through the aspects of both the accomplishment of redemption and its application to the believer, Murray...