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10 best books like Practicing Our Faith: A Way of Life for a Searching People (Dorothy C. Bass): The Twilight of the American Enlightenment: The 1950s and the Crisis of Liberal Belief, Early Christian Fathers (Library of Christian Classics), The Godbearing Life: The Art of Soul Tending for Youth Ministry, Reluctant Pilgrim: A Moody, Somewhat Self-Indulgent Introvert's Search for Spiritual Community, Matthew, Soul Feast: An Invitation to the Christian Spiritual Life, Faith Seeking Understanding: An Introduction to Christian Theology, Bread for the Journey: A Daybook of Wisdom and Faith, Sabbath Keeping: Finding Freedom in the Rhythms of Rest, Sources of Strength: Meditations on Scripture for a Living Faith

The Twilight of the American Enlightenment: The 1950s and the Crisis of Liberal Belief
AuthorGeorge M. Marsden
ISBN0465030106
In the aftermath of World War II, the United States stood at a precipice. The forces of modernity unleashed by the war had led to astonishing advances in daily life, but technology and mass culture also threatened to erode the country’s traditional moral character. As award-winning historian George...
Early Christian Fathers (Library of Christian Classics)
AuthorCyril Charles Richardson
ISBN0684829517
This selection of writings from early church leaders includes work by Clement of Rome, Ignatius, Polycarp, Irenaeus, Athenagoras and Justin Martyr.
Long recognized for the quality of its translations, introductions, explanatory notes, and indexes, the Library of Christian Classics provides...
The Godbearing Life: The Art of Soul Tending for Youth Ministry
AuthorKenda Creasy Dean
ISBN0835808580
Kendra Creasy Dean has her finger on the pulse of the spiritual side of youth ministry. i chose to read The Godbearing Life as part of my Sabbatical study. Although i found parts of this book a little outdated (published in 1998 - a lot has changed in the lives of youth with technology, etc. since then) I still...
Reluctant Pilgrim: A Moody, Somewhat Self-Indulgent Introvert's Search for Spiritual Community
AuthorEnuma Okoro
ISBN1935205102
If you sometimes feel lost on your spiritual journey, you'll find a trustworthy companion in Enuma Okoro, a purse shopping, tea-drinking, colon-cleansing, shaky follower of Jesus who just wants to find a godly man with good hair. But after her father's unexpected death, her grief seems to morph into...
Matthew
AuthorStanley Hauerwas
ISBN1587430959
This commentary brings the stimulating insights of world-renowned theologian Stanley Hauerwas to the first Gospel. This volume, like each in the Brazos Theological Commentary on the Bible, is designed to serve the church--through aid in preaching, teaching, study groups, and so forth--and demonstrate...
Soul Feast: An Invitation to the Christian Spiritual Life
AuthorMarjorie J. Thompson
ISBN0664229476
Few books in Westminster John Knox's publishing history have been so embraced and so loved as Marjorie Thompson's Soul Feast. First released in 1995, this spiritual classic continues to be a best-seller, as thousands each year accept her invitation to the Christian spiritual life. Offering a framework...
Faith Seeking Understanding: An Introduction to Christian Theology
AuthorDaniel L. Migliore
Daniel Migliore's Faith Seeking Understanding has been a standard introduction to Christian theology for more than a decade. The book's presentation of traditional doctrine in freshly contemporary ways, its concern to hear and critically engage new voices in theology, and its creative and accessible...
Bread for the Journey: A Daybook of Wisdom and Faith
AuthorHenri J.M. Nouwen
ISBN0060663766
When beloved author Henri Nouwen set out to record this daybook of totally new reflections, he suddenly found himself on "a true spiritual adventure." For in these 366 original, interlocking morsels of daily wisdom, Nouwen provides both sustenance and a trail for us to follow, as he unveils, to his...
Sabbath Keeping: Finding Freedom in the Rhythms of Rest
AuthorLynne M. Baab
ISBN0830832580
Let's give ourselves an A for effort.
We keep our minds so preoccupied with work projects that we act and think on autopilot.
We keep our kids so occupied with activities that they need day planners before grade school.
We keep our schedules so full with church meetings and housekeeping...
Sources of Strength: Meditations on Scripture for a Living Faith
AuthorJimmy Carter
ISBN1578562902
For Jimmy Carter, Holy Scripture has been a constant companion, a source of inspiration and strength in both good times and bad. A lifetime of devoted Bible reading has taught him that the truths of Scripture have the power to enrich and transform our daily lives in unexpected ways. Sources of Strength...
Who's Afraid of Postmodernism?: Taking Derrida, Lyotard, and Foucault to Church
AuthorJames K.A. Smith
The philosophies of French thinkers Derrida, Lyotard, and Foucault form the basis for postmodern thought and are seemingly at odds with the Christian faith. However, James K. A. Smith claims that their ideas have been misinterpreted and actually have a deep affinity with central Christian claims.

Each...
The HarperCollins Study Bible: Fully Revised & Updated
AuthorAnonymous
ISBN0060786841
The HarperCollins Study Bible—Student Edition is the landmark general reference Bible that offers the full text of the New Revised Standard Version as well as in-depth articles, introductions, and comprehensive notes by today’s leading biblical scholars for the Society of Biblical Literature....
From Jesus to Christ: The Origins of the New Testament Images of Christ
AuthorPaula Fredriksen
ISBN0300084579
In this exciting book, Paula Fredriksen explains the variety of New Testament images of Jesus by exploring the ways that the new Christian communities interpreted his mission and message in light of the delay of the Kingdom he had preached. A new introduction reviews the most recent scholarship on...
The Rule of Benedict: Insights for the Ages
AuthorJoan D. Chittister
ISBN0824525035
The Rule of Benedict was originally written more than 1,500 years ago. Chittester's book reproduces the rule (73 rules actually)with commentary for the modern reader.

The material is good and I would have given the book five stars if not for Chittester's insistence on making everything "gender...
Creating a Healthier Church: Family Systems Theory, Leadership and Congregational Life (Creative Pastoral Care & Counseling)
AuthorRonald W. Richardson
ISBN0800629558
Ronald W. Richardson helps us to understand how congregations function emotionally. Without being simplistic, he gives clear directions on how to improve their quality of life together and function more effectively in achieving mission goals. This book offers: A theory about human behavior that...
Generation to Generation: Family Process in Church and Synagogue
AuthorEdwin H. Friedman
ISBN0898620597
This acclaimed, influential work applies the concepts of systemic family therapy to the emotional life of congregations. Edwin H. Friedman shows how the same understanding of family process that can aid clergy in their pastoral role also has important ramifications for negotiating congregational...
Five Practices of Fruitful Congregations
AuthorRobert C. Schnase
ISBN0687645409
People are searching for a church shaped and sustained by Radical Hospitality, Passionate Worship, Intentional Faith Development, Risk-Taking Mission and Service, and Extravagant Generosity. These fundamental practices are critical to the success of congregations. Their presence and strength...
Anatheism: Returning to God After God
AuthorRichard Kearney
ISBN0231147880
Has the passing of the old God paved the way for a new kind of religious project, a more responsible way to seek, sound, and love the things we call divine? Has the suspension of dogmatic certainties and presumptions opened a space in which we can encounter religious wonder anew? Situated at the split between...
Radical Love: An Introduction to Queer Theology
AuthorPatrick S. Cheng
ISBN1596271329
Contextual theologies have developed from a number of perspectives including feminist theology, Black theology, womanist theology, Latin American liberation theology, and Asian American theology and a wide variety of academic and general introductions exist to examine each one.

However,...
The Book of Psalms: A Translation with Commentary
AuthorRobert Alter
ISBN0393062260
A brilliant new translation and commentary of one of the Bible s most cherished and powerful books.


Like the Five Books of Moses a cornerstone of the scriptural canon, the Book of Psalms has been a source of solace and joy for countless readers over millennia. The cleansing purity of its...
Longing for God: Seven Paths of Christian Devotion
AuthorRichard J. Foster
ISBN0830835148
2010 Christianity Today Book Award winner! 2010 Golden Canon Leadership Book Award winner! Think of the moment you last experienced God. Do you know him that closely in this moment? Truly experiencing the love of God gives us a taste of his goodness and his love for us, but often those moments are fleeting....
The Beloved Community: How Faith Shapes Social Justice, From the Civil Rights Movement to Today
AuthorCharles Marsh
ISBN0465044158
Speaking to his supporters at the end of the Montgomery bus boycott in 1956, Martin Luther King, Jr.- then a young minister only two years out of divinity school - declared that their common goal was not simply the end of segregation as an institution. Rather, “the end is reconciliation, the end is redemption,...
How to Think Theologically
AuthorHoward W. Stone
ISBN0800638182
An outstanding introduction for college, seminary, and lay readers, this second edition of the 1996 volume has been fully updated and expanded with new resources, examples, vignettes, diagnostic exercisess, and case studies. Addressing the how and why of theological sources, moves, and methods,...
Transforming Mission: Paradigm Shifts in Theology of Mission
AuthorDavid Jacobus Bosch
ISBN0883447193
This book is a foundational study of the church and mission. It is divided in three sections: 1. NT Models of Mission, 2. Historical Paradigms of Mission, and 3.Toward a Relevant Missiology.

Part one examines the NT and asks how it sees the mission of the church to the world. And how the NT itself...
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