Systematic Theology, Vol 1
10 best books like Systematic Theology, Vol 1 (Paul Tillich): Politics, Disappearing Earth, A Theology of Liberation, The Pilgrim's Progress, The Cost of Discipleship, The Wounded Healer: Ministry in Contemporary Society, The Cross of Christ, Exclusion & Embrace: A Theological Exploration of Identity, Otherness, and Reconciliation, The Crucified God: The Cross of Christ as the Foundation and Criticism of Christian Theology, Jesus and the Disinherited
| Author | Aristotle |
| ISBN | 0486414248 |
What is the relationship of the individual to the state? What is the ideal state, and how can it bring about the most desirable life for its citizens? What sort of education should it provide? What is the purpose of amassing wealth? These are some of the questions Aristotle attempts to answer in one of the...
For fans of Anthony Marra's A Constellation of Vital Phenomena and Téa Obreht's The Tiger's Wife: the kidnapping of two small girls on a remote peninsula in Russia sets in motion an evocative, moving, searingly original debut novel by a dazzling young writer.
One August afternoon, on the...
| Author | Gustavo Gutiérrez |
| ISBN | 0883445425 |
This is the credo and seminal text of the movement which was later characterized as liberation theology. The book burst upon the scene in the early seventies, and was swiftly acknowledged as a pioneering and prophetic approach to theology which famously made an option for the poor, placing the exploited,...
| Author | John Bunyan |
| ISBN | 0486426750 |
This famous story of man's progress through life in search of salvation remains one of the most entertaining allegories of faith ever written. Set against realistic backdrops of town and country, the powerful drama of the pilgrim's trials and temptations follows him in his harrowing journey to the...
| Author | Dietrich Bonhoeffer |
| ISBN | 0684815001 |
One of the most important theologians of the twentieth century illuminates the relationship between ourselves and the teachings of Jesus in this classic text on ethics, humanism, and civic duty.
What can the call to discipleship, the adherence to the word of Jesus, mean today to the businessman,...
The Wounded Healer: Ministry in Contemporary Society
| Author | Henri J.M. Nouwen |
| ISBN | 0232521026 |
The Wounded Healer is a hope-filled and profoundly simple book that speaks directly to those men and women who want to be of service in their church or community, but have found the traditional ways often threatening and ineffective. In this book, Henri Nouwen combines creative case studies of ministry...
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...
Exclusion & Embrace: A Theological Exploration of Identity, Otherness, and Reconciliation
| Author | Miroslav Volf |
| ISBN | 0687002826 |
Life at the end of the twentieth century presents us with a disturbing reality. Otherness, the simple fact of being different in some way, has come to be defined as in and of itself evil. Miroslav Volf contends that if the healing word of the gospel is to be heard today, Christian theology must find ways...
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,...
Jesus and the Disinherited
| Author | Howard Thurman |
| ISBN | 0807010294 |
In this classic theological treatise, the acclaimed theologian and religious leader Howard Thurman (1900–81) demonstrates how the gospel may be read as a manual of resistance for the poor and disenfranchised. Jesus is a partner in the pain of the oppressed and the example of His life offers a solution...
God of the Oppressed (This Gift Edition, Printed In)
| Author | James H. Cone |
| ISBN | 1570751587 |
God of the Oppressed remains a landmark in the development of Black Theology—the first effort to present a systematic theology drawing fully on the resources of African-American religion and culture. Responding to the criticism that his previous books drew too heavily on Euro-American definitions...
| Author | Umberto Eco |
| ISBN | 0847826465 |
Now in paperback, Umberto Eco’s groundbreaking and much-acclaimed first illustrated book has been a critical success since its first publication in 2004. What is beauty? Umberto Eco, among Italy’s finest and most important contemporary thinkers, explores the nature, the meaning, and the...
| Author | Eugene H. Peterson |
| ISBN | 0802828752 |
Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places reunites spirituality and theology in a cultural context where these two vital facets of Christian faith have been rent asunder. Lamenting the vacuous, often pagan nature of contemporary American spirituality, Eugene Peterson here firmly grounds spirituality...
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Very helpful book. Kuyper, who was prime minister of the Netherlands for four years, was invited by B. B. Warfield to Princeton in 1898 to participate in the Stone Lectures. An annual prize was...
| Author | H. Richard Niebuhr |
| ISBN | 0061300039 |
This 50th-anniversary edition, with a new foreword by the distinguished historian Martin E. Marty, who regards this book as one of the most vital books of our time, as well as an introduction by the author never before included in the book, and a new preface by James Gustafson, the premier Christian ethicist...
Evangelical Theology: An Introduction
| Author | Karl Barth |
| ISBN | 0802818196 |
This author was vacuous in his approach by defining his theology as the science of studying the object of the Word (Logos) of the living God as presented in the New Testament and understood retroactively by the Old Testament such that understanding hovers between the inside of the self with the outside...
| Author | Louis Berkhof |
| ISBN | 0851510566 |
Having read up to this point, by way of comprehensive systematics, Calvin's "Institutes" (Magisterial Reformer), Erickson's "Christian Theology" (Baptist) and Oden's three-volume systematic (Methodist/Wesleyan), it was thoroughly refreshing to dive into the Late Louis Berkhof's "Systematic...
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...
