She Who Is: The Mystery of God in Feminist Theological Discourse
10 best books like She Who Is: The Mystery of God in Feminist Theological Discourse (Elizabeth A. Johnson): Four Quartets, Leaving Church: A Memoir of Faith, The Jesuit Guide to (Almost) Everything: A Spirituality for Real Life, The Crucified God: The Cross of Christ as the Foundation and Criticism of Christian Theology, The Doors of the Sea: Where Was God in the Tsunami?, The Cross and the Lynching Tree, Cur Deus Homo, Flunking Sainthood: A Year of Breaking the Sabbath, Forgetting to Pray, and Still Loving My Neighbor, The Dance of the Dissident Daughter, Traveling with Pomegranates: A Mother and Daughter Journey to the Sacred Places of Greece, Turkey, and France
| Author | T.S. Eliot |
| ISBN | 0571068944 |
The Four Quartets is a series of four poems by T.S. Eliot, published individually from 1936 to 1942, and in book form in 1943; it was considered by Eliot himself to be his finest work. Each of the quartets has five "movements" and each is titled by a place name -- BURNT NORTON (1936), EAST COKER (1940), THE...
| Author | Barbara Brown Taylor |
| ISBN | 0060872632 |
By now I expected to be a seasoned parish minister, wearing black clergy shirts grown gray from frequent washing. I expected to love the children who hung on my legs after Sunday morning services until they grew up and had children of their own. I even expected to be buried wearing the same red vestments...
The Jesuit Guide to (Almost) Everything: A Spirituality for Real Life
| Author | James Martin |
| ISBN | 0061432687 |
The Jesuit Guide to (Almost) Everything by the Revered James Martin, SJ (My Life with the Saints) is a practical spiritual guidebook based on the life and teachings of St. Ignatius of Loyola, the founder of the Society of Jesus. Centered around the Ignatian goal of “finding God in all things,” The...
The Crucified God: The Cross of Christ as the Foundation and Criticism of Christian Theology
| Author | Jürgen Moltmann |
| ISBN | 0800628225 |
"This is Jürgen Moltmann's best and therefore most important book. He has substantially changed the central thrust of his theology without sacrificing its most vital element, its passionate concern for alleviation of the world's suffering."
-Langdon Gilkey
"The Crucified God rewards,...
The Doors of the Sea: Where Was God in the Tsunami?
| Author | David Bentley Hart |
| ISBN | 0802829767 |
As news reports of the horrific tsunami in Asia reached the rest of the world, commentators were quick to seize upon the disaster as proof of either God's power or God's nonexistence. Expanding on his Wall Street Journal piece, Tremors of Doubt, published the last day of 2004, David Bentley Hart here...
The Cross and the Lynching Tree
| Author | James H. Cone |
| ISBN | 1570759375 |
A landmark in the conversation about race and religion in America.
"They put him to death by hanging him on a tree." Acts 10:39
The cross and the lynching tree are the two most emotionally charged symbols in the history of the African American community. In this powerful new work, theologian...
| Author | Anselm of Canterbury |
| ISBN | 1411646436 |
A thought provoking book on the deepest questions which have plagued mankind for time and eternity. Is there a God? Why did he have to die? How are we restored by his death? Anselm tackles these tough questions in his thought provocative book “Cur Deus Homo.” Saint Anselm of Canterbury (1033 - 1109)...
Flunking Sainthood: A Year of Breaking the Sabbath, Forgetting to Pray, and Still Loving My Neighbor
| Author | Jana Riess |
| ISBN | 1557256608 |
This wry memoir tackles twelve different spiritual practices in a quest to become more saintly, including fasting, fixed-hour prayer, the Jesus Prayer, gratitude, Sabbath-keeping, and generosity. Although Riess begins with great plans for success (“Really, how hard could that be?” she asks...
The Dance of the Dissident Daughter
The acclaimed spiritual memoir from the author of The Secret Life of Bees.
I was amazed to find that I had no idea how to unfold my spiritual life in a feminine way. I was surprised and, in fact, a little terrified when I found myself in the middle of a feminist spiritual reawakening.
Sue...
| Author | Sue Monk Kidd |
| ISBN | 0143117971 |
The New York Times–bestselling memoir of pilgrimage and metamorphosis by the author of The Secret Life of Bees and The Invention of Wings (Viking, January 2014) and her daughter
Sue Monk Kidd has touched the hearts of millions of readers with her beloved novels and acclaimed nonfiction....
| Author | Frederick Buechner |
| ISBN | 0060611839 |
This was insightful, uncommonly honest, and beautiful. I couldn't put the book down, but had to, twice, before finishing the mere 112 pages (3 chapters called "Once Below a Time, Once Upon a Time, and Beyond Time").
I will not share any of the story, so as not to ruin any of it for future readers; however,...
| Author | Margaret Farley |
| ISBN | 0826410014 |
This long-awaited book by one of American Christianity's foremost ethicists proposes a framework for sexual ethics whereby justice is the criterion for all loving, including love that is related to sexual activity and relationships. It begins with historical and cross-cultural explorations,...
| Author | Diana Butler Bass |
| ISBN | 0062003739 |
Diana Butler Bass, one of contemporary Christianity’s leading trend-spotters, exposes how the failings of the church today are giving rise to a new “spiritual but not religious” movement. Using evidence from the latest national polls and from her own cutting-edge research, Bass, the visionary...
| Author | Kathleen Norris |
| ISBN | 0618127240 |
A beautiful meditation on life in the Great Plains from award-winning author and poet Kathleen Norris.
Kathleen Norris invites readers to experience rich moments of prayer and presence in Dakota, a timeless tribute to a place in the American landscape that is at once desolate...
| Author | Annie Dillard |
| ISBN | 0060915439 |
In 1975 Annie Dillard took up residence on an island in Puget Sound in a wooded room furnished with "one enormous window, one cat, one spider and one person." For the next two years she asked herself questions about time, reality, sacrifice death, and the will of God. In Holy the Firm she writes about a moth...
| Author | Phyllis A. Tickle |
| ISBN | 1596445750 |
From the church's birth to the reign of St. Gregory the great, to the Great Schism and through the Reformation, Phyllis Tickle notes that every 500 years the church has been rocked by massive transitions. Remarkably enough, Tickle suggests to us that we live in such a time right now. The Great Emergence...
| Author | John Shelby Spong |
| ISBN | 0060778407 |
In The Sins of Scripture, Bishop John Shelby Spong takes on a thematic exploration of the Bible, carefully analyzing those passages that inform some of our key debates, like the role of women in the church and in society, and homosexuality, to name just two. Beyond that he also looks at scriptures that...
| Author | Kenda Creasy Dean |
| ISBN | 0195314840 |
Based on the National Study of Youth and Religion--the same invaluable data as its predecessor, Soul Searching: The Religious and Spiritual Lives of American Teenagers--Kenda Creasy Dean's compelling new book, Almost Christian, investigates why American teenagers are at once so positive about...
Speaking Christian: Why Christian Words Have Lost Their Meaning and Power - And How They Can Be Restored
Modern Christians are steeped in a language so distorted that it has become a stumbling block to the religion, says internationally renowned Bible scholar Marcus J. Borg. Borg argues that Christianity's important words, and the sacred texts and stories in which those words are embedded, have been...
Barking to the Choir: The Power of Radical Kinship
| Author | Gregory Boyle |
| ISBN | 1476726159 |
In a moving example of unconditional love in difficult times, the Jesuit priest and bestselling author of Tattoos on the Heart, Gregory Boyle, shares what three decades of working with gang members in Los Angeles has taught him about faith, compassion, and the enduring power of kinship.
In...
The Invention of Wings: Exclusive Free Chapter Sampler
An exclusive free sample chapter from THE INVENTION OF WINGS…
From the celebrated author of the international bestseller THE SECRET LIFE OF BEES comes an extraordinary novel about two exceptional women.
Sarah Grimké is the middle daughter. The one her mother calls...
| Author | Hugh Kenner |
| ISBN | 0195041429 |
One of America's most celebrated critics here brings his customary wit and erudition to bear on a particularly provocative theme: the response of literary Modernism to a changing environment wrought by technology. In the early decades of the twentieth century, Hugh Kenner, observes, technology...
| Author | Johann Baptist Metz |
| ISBN | 0809137992 |
"Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven." Matthew 5:3
Poverty of Spirit by Johannes Baptist Metz seemed like such a simple book the first time I read it. Perhaps I was just so overwhelmed by everything else to do with Retreat in Daily Life -- the term given to St. Ignatian...
The Idea of Greater Britain: Empire and the Future of World Order, 1860-1900
| Author | Duncan Bell |
| ISBN | 0691128650 |
During the tumultuous closing decades of the nineteenth century, as the prospect of democracy loomed and as intensified global economic and strategic competition reshaped the political imagination, British thinkers grappled with the question of how best to organize the empire. Many found an answer...
Most Moved Mover: A Theology of God's Openness
| Author | Clark H. Pinnock |
| ISBN | 0801022908 |
In 1994, Clark Pinnock along with four other scholars published The Openness of God, which set out a new evangelical vision of God centered on his open, relational, and responsive love for creation.
Since then, dozens of books and articles have been written to discuss the open view of God. It...
| Author | Emmanuel Levinas |
| ISBN | 0804736669 |
This book consists of transcripts from two lecture courses Levinas delivered in 1975-76, his last year at the Sorbonne. They cover some of the most pervasive themes of his thought and were written at a time when he had just published his most important—and difficult—book, Otherwise than Being,...
Empire and Globalisation: Networks of People, Goods and Capital in the British World, C.1850 - 1914
| Author | Gary B. Magee |
| ISBN | 0521898897 |
Focusing on the great population movement of British emigrants before 1914, this book provides a perspective on the relationship between empire and globalisation. It shows how distinct structures of economic opportunity developed around the people who settled across a wider British World through...
God's Empire: Religion and Colonialism in the British World, C.1801-1908
| Author | Hilary M. Carey |
| ISBN | 0521194105 |
In God's Empire, Hilary M. Carey charts Britain's nineteenth-century transformation from Protestant nation to free Christian empire through the history of the colonial missionary movement. This wide-ranging reassessment of the religious character of the second British empire provides a clear...
Using and Enjoying Biblical Greek: Reading the New Testament with Fluency and Devotion
Many who study biblical Greek despair of being able to use it routinely, but veteran instructor Rodney Whitacre says there is hope! By learning to read Greek slowly, students can become fluent one passage at a time and grasp the New Testament in its original language. Whitacre explains how to practice...
Fully Automated Luxury Communism: A Manifesto
| Author | Aaron Bastani |
| ISBN | 1786632624 |
A different kind of politics for a new kind of society--beyond work, scarcity and capitalism
In the twenty-first century, new technologies should liberate us from work. Automation, rather than undermining an economy built on full employment, is instead the path to a world of liberty, luxury...
