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10 best books like Sinai and Zion (Jon D. Levenson): The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming, A Good Man is Hard to Find and Other Stories, God Is Red: A Native View of Religion, How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems, Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time: The Historical Jesus and the Heart of Contemporary Faith, The Prophets, The Poetry of Pablo Neruda, The Prophetic Imagination, The Cross of Christ, Sexism and God Talk: Toward a Feminist Theology

The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
AuthorDavid Wallace-Wells
ISBN0525576703
It is worse, much worse, than you think. If your anxiety about global warming is dominated by fears of sea-level rise, you are barely scratching the surface of what terrors are possible. In California, wildfires now rage year-round, destroying thousands of homes. Across the US, "500-year" storms...
A Good Man is Hard to Find and Other Stories
AuthorFlannery O'Connor
ISBN0151365040
This now classic book revealed Flannery O'Connor as one of the most original and provocative writers to emerge from the South. Her apocalyptic vision of life is expressed through grotesque, often comic situations in which the principal character faces a problem of salvation: the grandmother, in...
God Is Red: A Native View of Religion
AuthorVine Deloria Jr.
ISBN1555914985
First published in 1972, Vine Deloria Jr.'s God Is Red remains the seminal work on Native religious views, asking new questions about our species and our ultimate fate. Celebrating three decades in publication with a special 30th-anniversary edition, this classic work reminds us to learn "that we...
How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems
AuthorRandall Munroe
ISBN1473680336
How To is an instruction manual for taking everyday problems and using science and creative thinking to turn them into much bigger and more exciting problems. It teaches you how to cross a river by boiling it, outlines some of the many uses for lava around the home, and walks you through how to use experimental...
Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time: The Historical Jesus and the Heart of Contemporary Faith
AuthorMarcus J. Borg
ISBN0060609176
Of the many recent books on the historical Jesus, none has explored what the latest biblical scholarship means for personal faith. Now, in Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time, Marcus Borg addresses the yearnings of those who want a fully contemporary faith that welcomes rather than oppresses our...
The Prophets
AuthorAbraham Joshua Heschel
ISBN0060936991
Abraham Heschel is a seminal name in religious studies and the author of Man Is Not Alone and God in Search of Man. When The Prophets was first published in 1962, it was immediately recognized as a masterpiece of biblical scholarship.

The Prophets provides a unique opportunity for readers of...
The Poetry of Pablo Neruda
AuthorPablo Neruda
ISBN0374529604
The most comprehensive English-language collection of work ever by "the greatest poet of the twentieth century - in any language" - Gabriel García Márquez

"In his work a continent awakens to consciousness." So wrote the Swedish Academy in awarding the Nobel Prize to Pablo Neruda, the author...
The Prophetic Imagination
AuthorWalter Brueggemann
ISBN0800632877
It is almost cliche to say that our world has been numbed into apathy about a great many things, spirituality included. If fact, I believe it would be fair to say that many Christians have found their faith to be drained of mysticism and imagination. Taught that mysticism is evil or somehow against the...
The Cross of Christ
AuthorJohn R.W. Stott
The work of a lifetime, from one of the world's most influential thinkers, about the heart of the Christian faith. "I could never myself believe in God, if it were not for the cross. . . . In the real world of pain, how could one worship a God who was immune to it?" With compelling honesty John Stott confronts...
Sexism and God Talk: Toward a Feminist Theology
AuthorRosemary Radford Ruether
How did a religion whose founding proponents advocated a shocking disregard of earthly ties come to extol the virtues of the "traditional" family? In this richly textured history of the relationship between Christianity and the family Rosemary Radford Ruether traces the development of these centerpieces...
Original Blessing: Putting Sin in Its Rightful Place
AuthorDanielle Shroyer
ISBN1451496761
Belief in the doctrine of Original Sin is firmly held by many Christians, but it turns out that its not necessarily biblical. Further, argues Danielle Shroyer, its bad for people and bad for the church. In Original Blessing, Shroyer shows not only how we got it wrong, but how we can put sin back in its rightful...
On Christian Doctrine
AuthorAugustine of Hippo
ISBN0024021504
The words in his title have gotten an offputting reputation in other contexts, and that's a shame. Doctrine is guidance in love. Augustine himself, probably from somebody's frightening childhood experience with City of God, would tend to offer an intimidating nameplate.

Try anyway. He...
On Violence
AuthorHannah Arendt
ISBN0156695006
This book makes clear that Arendt is amazingly well read... Though, given 50 years, I am always amazed at how much more we are supposed to read (and often how much less we do) as modern academics and students rather than academics in the 1950s and 60s.

While I can see the relevance of Arendt's writing...
Revolution for Dummies: Laughing through the Arab Spring
AuthorBassem Youssef
ISBN0062446916
“Hilarious and Heartbreaking. Comedy shouldn’t take courage, but it made an exception for Bassem.” --Jon Stewart

Semi-Finalist in the Humor category in the Goodreads Choice Awards.

"The Jon Stewart of the Arabic World"—the creator of The Program, the most popular...
The Complete Works of Saint Augustine: The Confessions, On Grace and Free Will, The City of God, On Christian Doctrine, Expositions on the Book Of Psalms, ... (50 Books With Active Table of Contents)
AuthorAugustine of Hippo
“May the blessing of the Great Head of the Church accompany and crown this work."
-Philip Schaff.

This collection gathers together all, complete works by Saint Augustine in a single, convenient, high quality, and extremely low priced Kindle volume!
This extraordinary omnibus...
The Wisdom of Heschel
AuthorAbraham Joshua Heschel
ISBN0374513732
"Philosophy may be defined as the art of asking the right questions...Awareness of the problem outlives all solutions. The answers are questions in disguise, every new answer giving rise to new questions." This example of Rabbi Heschel's thought and manner of expression, familiar to the readers...
The Complete Works of Jonathan Edwards: Christ Exalted, Sinners in the Hands of the Angry God, A Divine and Supernatural Light, Christian Knowledge, On ... (59 Books With Active Table of Contents)
AuthorJonathan Edwards
This collection gathers together the works by Jonathan Edwards in a single, convenient, high quality, and extremely low priced Kindle volume!

1. Memoirs of Jonathan Edwards, A. M.
2. An Inquiry Into The Modern Prevailing Notions of The Freedom of Will
3. A Dissertation Concerning...
Insecurity of Freedom
AuthorAbraham Joshua Heschel
ISBN0374506086
Heschel represents something like a holy man, someone who is a scholar and a writer, but who, claiming his heritage in the Hebrew prophets, needed to leave his study and live in the image of God in this life. His last essay was on the last days of Maimonides, that great medieval philosopher/theologian...
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