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The Christian Imagination: The Practice of Faith in Literature and Writing

10 best books like The Christian Imagination: The Practice of Faith in Literature and Writing (Leland Ryken): Romanov, The Brothers Lionheart, Emily Climbs, Emily's Quest, The Story Girl, Emily of New Moon, The Golden Road, The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare, The Pursuit of God: The Human Thirst for the Divine, The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism

Romanov
AuthorNadine Brandes
The history books say I died.

They don’t know the half of it.

Anastasia “Nastya” Romanov was given a single mission: to smuggle an ancient spell into her suitcase on her way to exile in Siberia. It might be her family’s only salvation. But the leader of the Bolshevik army is...
The Brothers Lionheart
AuthorAstrid Lindgren
ISBN1930900244
The Brothers Lionheart (Swedish: Bröderna Lejonhjärta) is a children's fantasy novel written by Astrid Lindgren. It was published in the autumn of 1973 and has been translated into 46 languages. Many of its themes are unusually dark and heavy for the children's book genre. Disease, death, tyranny,...
Emily Climbs
AuthorL.M. Montgomery
ISBN0553262149
Emily Starr was born with the desire to write. As an orphan living on New Moon Farm, writing helped her face the difficult, lonely times. But now all her friends are going away to high school in nearby Shrewsbury, and her old-fashioned, tyrannical aunt Elizabeth will only let her go if she promises to stop...
Emily's Quest
AuthorL.M. Montgomery
ISBN0553264931
Emily knows she's going to be a great writer. She also knows that she and her childhood sweetheart, Teddy Kent, will conquer the world together. But when Teddy leaves home to pursue his goal to become an artist at the School of Design in Montreal, Emily's world collapses. With Teddy gone, Emily agrees...
The Story Girl
AuthorL.M. Montgomery
ISBN1576463214
Sara Stanley is only fourteen, but she can weave tales that are impossible to resist. In the charming town of Carlisle, children and grown-ups alike flock from miles around to hear her spellbinding tales. And when Bev King and his younger brother Felix arrive for the summer, they, too, are captivated...
Emily of New Moon
AuthorL.M. Montgomery
Emily Starr never knew what it was to be lonely -- until her beloved father died. Now Emily's an orphan, and her mother's snobbish relatives are taking her to live with them at New Moon Farm. She's sure she won't be happy. Emily deals with stiff, stern Aunt Elizabeth and her malicious classmates by holding...
The Golden Road
AuthorL.M. Montgomery
ISBN0553213679
When Sara Stanley, the Story Girl, returns to Carlisle to spend the winter with the King family, she comes up with a great idea. To help them through the dreary months ahead, she, Felicity, Cecily, and Dan will publish a magazine.

From "Personals" to "Fashion Notes" to an etiquette column and...
The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare
AuthorG.K. Chesterton
ISBN0375757910
G. K. Chesterton's surreal masterpiece is a psychological thriller that centers on seven anarchists in turn-of-the-century London who call themselves by the names of the days of the week. Chesterton explores the meanings of their disguised identities in what is a fascinating mystery and, ultimately,...
The Pursuit of God: The Human Thirst for the Divine
AuthorA.W. Tozer
ISBN0875093663
“As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God.” This thirst for an intimate relationship with God, claims A.W. Tozer, is not for a select few, but should be the experience of every follower of Christ.

Here is a masterly study of the inner life by a heart thirsting...
The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism
AuthorTimothy J. Keller
ISBN0525950494
Making Sense of God: An Invitation to the Skeptical, is a prequel to The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism.

The End of Faith. The God Delusion. God Is Not Great. Letter to a Christian Nation. Bestseller lists are filled with doubters. But what happens when you actually doubt your doubts?

Although...
Strands of Truth
AuthorColleen Coble
Suspense melds with romance as the past meets the present in this engrossing new novel from USA TODAY bestselling author Colleen Coble. Harper Taylor is used to being alone. Her mother passed away in a car accident when she was an infant, she never knew who her father was, and now even the widowed...
The Prodigal God: Recovering the Heart of the Christian Faith
AuthorTimothy J. Keller
ISBN0525950796
Newsweek called renowned minister Timothy Keller "a C. S. Lewis for the twenty-first century" in a feature on his first book, The Reason for God. In that book, he offered a rational explanation of why we should believe in God. Now, in The Prodigal God, he uses one of the best-known Christian parables to...
Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream
AuthorDavid Platt
ISBN1601422210
WHAT IS JESUS WORTH TO YOU?

It's easy for American Christians to forget how Jesus said his followers would actually live, what their new lifestyle would actually look like. They would, he said, leave behind security, money, convenience, even family for him. They would abandon everything...
In the Name of Jesus: Reflections on Christian Leadership
AuthorHenri J.M. Nouwen
ISBN0824512596
Henri Nouwen was a spiritual thinker with an unusual capacity to write about the life of Jesus and the love of God in ways that have inspired countless people to trust life more fully.

Most widely read among the over 40 books Father Nouwen wrote is In the Name of Jesus. For a society that measures...
Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved
AuthorKate Bowler
ISBN0399592067
A divinity professor and young mother with a Stage IV cancer diagnosis explores the pain and joy of living without certainty.

Thirty-five-year-old Kate Bowler was a professor at the school of divinity at Duke, and had finally had a baby with her childhood sweetheart after years of trying,...
An Experiment in Criticism
AuthorC.S. Lewis
ISBN0521422817
Why do we read literature and how do we judge it? C.S. Lewis's classic analysis springs from the conviction that literature exists for the joy of the reader and that books should be judged by the kind of reading they invite. Crucial to his notion of judging literature is a commitment to laying aside expectations...
Art & the Bible
AuthorFrancis A. Schaeffer
ISBN0877844437
The lordship of Christ should include an interest in the arts," writes Francis Schaeffer. "A Christian should use these arts to the glory of God, not just as tracts, mind you, but as things of beauty to the praise of God." Many Christians, wary of creating graven images, have steered clear of artistic...
Reading Between the Lines
AuthorGene Edward Veith Jr.
ISBN0891075828
Here is a guidebook for those who want to learn how to recognize books that are spiritually and aesthetically good–to cultivate good literary taste. Gene Edward Veith presents basic information to help book lovers understand what they read–from the classics to the bestsellers. He explains how...
My Grandfather's Son
AuthorClarence Thomas
ISBN0060565551
Provocative, inspiring, and unflinchingly honest, My Grandfather's Son is the story of one of America's most remarkable and controversial leaders, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, told in his own words.

Thomas speaks out, revealing the pieces of his life he holds dear, detailing...
The Business of Being a Writer
AuthorJane Friedman
Writers talk about their work in many ways: as an art, as a calling, as a lifestyle. Too often missing from these conversations is the fact that writing is also a business. The reality is, those who want to make a full- or part-time job out of writing are going to have a more positive and productive career...
The Four Loves
AuthorC.S. Lewis
ISBN0062565397
A repackaged edition of the revered author's classic work that examines the four types of human love: affection, friendship, erotic love, and the love of God—part of the C. S. Lewis Signature Classics series.

C.S. Lewis—the great British writer, scholar, lay theologian, broadcaster,...
The Art of The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
AuthorWayne G. Hammond
ISBN0007440812
To celebrate the 75th Anniversary of the publication of The Hobbit, a sumptuous full-colour art book containing the complete collection of more than 100 Hobbit sketches, drawings, paintings and maps by J.R.R. Tolkien.

When J.R.R. Tolkien wrote The Hobbit, he was already an accomplished...
Mere Christianity
AuthorC.S. Lewis
Mere Christianity is a theological book by C. S. Lewis, adapted from a series of BBC radio talks made between 1941 and 1944,[2] while Lewis was at Oxford during the Second World War.[3] Considered a classic of Christian apologetics, the transcripts of the broadcasts originally appeared in print as...
You Are What You Love: The Spiritual Power of Habit
AuthorJames K.A. Smith
You are what you love. But you might not love what you think.

In this book, award-winning author James K. A. Smith shows that who and what we worship fundamentally shape our hearts. And while we desire to shape culture, we are not often aware of how culture shapes us. We might not realize the ways...
The Road Back to You: An Enneagram Journey to Self-Discovery
AuthorIan Morgan Cron
ISBN0830846190
Ignorance is bliss except in self-awareness...

What you don't know about yourself can hurt you and your relationships―and even keep you in the shallows with God. Do you want help figuring out who you are and why you're stuck in the same ruts? The Enneagram is an ancient personality typing...
Mustard Seed
AuthorLaila Ibrahim
ISBN1542045568
The bestselling author of Yellow Crocus returns with a haunting and tender story of three women returning to the plantation they once called home.

Oberlin, Ohio, 1868. Lisbeth Johnson was born into privilege in the antebellum South. Jordan Freedman was born a slave to Mattie, Lisbeth’s...
Hvitekrist
AuthorTore Skeie
The first volume in the Age of Kings series. Olav Haraldsson (ca. 950–1030) is the first figure we meet in this monumental and ambitious five-volume series on Norway’s great Viking and Middle Age kings. This is the new history of Norway, written by our most important young scholar of the Middle Ages,...
Je Te Veux
AuthorSavanna Roberts
What if every 1,000 years the Greek gods and goddesses were reincarnated to complete a task on earth?
And what if the god of peace and the goddess of chaos met up and fell in love?

When Sara and Tom wake up in Paris and are given their assignments, neither one expects to have any complications....
Der Planet Trillaphon im Verhältnis zur Üblen Sache
AuthorDavid Foster Wallace
Wer das Wesen der Krankheit Depression verstehen will, muss diesen Text lesen Eine frühe Erzählung von David Foster Wallace, erstmals 1984 in The Amherst Review, einer literarischen Studentenzeitschrift, erschienen. Mit erschreckender Offenheit und Formulierungen, die später in seinen...
Letters from Lake Como: Explorations in Technology and the Human Race
AuthorRomano Guardini
ISBN0802801080
This book collects a fascinating series of letters written by theologian-philosopher Romano Guardini in the mid-1920s in which he works out for the first time his sense of the challenges of humanity in a culture increasingly dominated by the machine. With prophetic clarity and unsettling farsightedness,...
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