The Coming of God: Christian Eschatology
10 best books like The Coming of God: Christian Eschatology (Jürgen Moltmann): Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain, Fool Moon, The Night Fire, New Spring, Inspired: Slaying Giants, Walking on Water, and Loving the Bible Again, This: Becoming Free, Still: Notes on a Mid-Faith Crisis, Breathing Space: A Spiritual Journey in the South Bronx, Jesus, the Bible, and Homosexuality: Explode the Myths, Heal the Church, The Bible: A Very Short Introduction
Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain
| Author | David Eagleman |
| ISBN | 0307377334 |
Let me start with the easy stuff. On a literary note, this book is entertaining. However, it reads more like a series of interesting essays on neuroscience rather than a book.
Let me move on to the more interesting stuff. This book is deceptive. Eagleman uses a "slight of hand" writing style....
| Author | Jim Butcher |
| ISBN | 0451458125 |
Harry Dresden--Wizard
Lost Items Found. Paranormal Investigations. Consulting. Advice. Reasonable Rates. No Love Potions, Endless Purses, or Other Entertainment.
Business has been slow. Okay, business has been dead. And not even of the undead variety. You would think Chicago would...
| Author | Michael Connelly |
| ISBN | 0316485616 |
Harry Bosch and LAPD Detective Renee Ballard come together again on the murder case that obsessed Bosch's mentor, the man who trained him -- new from #1 New York Times bestselling author Michael Connelly
Back when Harry Bosch was just a rookie homicide detective, he had an inspiring mentor...
| Author | Robert Jordan |
| ISBN | 1841492612 |
The city of Canluum lies close to the scarred and desolate wastes of the Blight, a walled haven from the dangers away to the north, and a refuge from the ill works of those who serve the Dark One. Or so it is said.
The city that greets Al’Lan Mandragoran, exiled king of Malkier and the finest swordsman...
Inspired: Slaying Giants, Walking on Water, and Loving the Bible Again
| Author | Rachel Held Evans |
| ISBN | 0718022319 |
One Woman’s Journey Back to Loving the Bible
If the Bible isn’t a science book or an instruction manual, then what is it? What do people mean when they say the Bible is inspired? When Rachel Held Evans found herself asking these questions, she began a quest to better understand what the...
Doubt-filled spiritual leader and reluctant Grammy-nominated Christian musician Michael Gungor finally let go of his belief in God as he tried to whittle together a god that he could love. Letting go of the stories that defined his identity and value in the world led Gungor and his family on a wild and...
| Author | Lauren F. Winner |
| ISBN | 0061768111 |
Following up her highly acclaimed Girl Meets God, author Lauren F. Winner has written an engrossing reflection of literary grace and spiritual wisdom with Still: Notes on a Mid-Faith Crisis.
As she lives through a failed marriage and the loss of her mother, Winner finds her Christian faith...
| Author | Heidi B. Neumark |
| ISBN | 0807072575 |
Breathing Space is the story of Heidi Neumark and the Hispanic and African-American Lutheran church-Transfiguration-that took a chance calling on a pastor from a starkly different background. Despite living and working in a milieu of overwhelming poverty and violence, Neumark and the congregation...
| Author | Jack Bartlett Rogers |
| ISBN | 0664229395 |
In a powerful new book, evangelical theologian and former Moderator of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Jack Rogers argues unequivocally for equal rights in the church and in society for people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender. Throughout history, he observes, Christianity has moved...
| Author | John Riches |
| ISBN | 0192853430 |
It is sometimes said that the Bible is one of the most unread books in the world, yet has been a major force in the development of Western culture and continues to exert an enormous influence over many people's lives. This Very Short Introduction looks at the importance accorded to the Bible by different...
The Moral Vision of the New Testament: Community, Cross, New Creation: A Contemporary Introduction to New Testament Ethics
A leading expert in New Testament ethics discovers in the biblical witness a unified ethical vision—centered in the themes of community, cross and new creation—that has profound relevance in today′s world. Richard Hays shows how the New Testament provides moral guidance on the most troubling...
Choosing a Bible: For Worship, Teaching, Study, Preaching, and Prayer
| Author | Donald Kraus |
| ISBN | 1596270438 |
How do we choose among all the different Bible translations available today? How do we know which is the right one to use for specific situations? And how do we understand what factors lie behind these translations? Oxford Bible editor Donald Kraus surveys 25 different Bible translations, and discusses...
What the Bible Really Says about Homosexuality
| Author | Daniel A. Helminiak |
Does God's word in the Bible really condemn homosexuality?...... Top scholars--like the late John Boswell of Yale, Daniel Boyarin of Berkeley, Bernadette Brooten of Brandeis, L.William Countryman of the Church Divinity School of the Pacific in Berkeley, Victor P. Furnish of SMU, Saul M. Olyan of...
The Bible Tells Me So: Uses and Abuses of Holy Scripture
| Author | Jim Hill |
| ISBN | 0385476957 |
Throughout history preachers, politicians and pundits have selectively used the Bible to reach often contradictory conclusions on the great issues of morality and politics: from women's rights, abortion, and celibacy for the clergy to war, civil rights, the environment, the separation of church...
Selections from the writings of Ulrich Zwingli and Heinrich Bullinger, two lesser-known church reformers, are contained in this volume. Also included is an account of the life, work, and theology of each of these Swiss reformers of the sixteenth century.
Long recognized for the quality...
| Author | Robert Crais |
| ISBN | 0399161503 |
It seemed like a simple case before the bodies starting piling up. Investigator Elvis Cole and his partner, Joe Pike, take on the deadliest case of their lives, in the new masterpiece of suspense from the #1 New York Times bestselling author
When single mother Devon Connor hires private investigator...
The Theology of the Reformed Confessions, 1923
| Author | Karl Barth |
| ISBN | 0664222617 |
First two chapters are excellent. Barth describes his understanding of the "Reformed" principle of sola scriptura juxtaposed with the Lutheran approach. Herein, we can also have a greater understanding of Barth's latent bibliological understanding contravened as it is with "Fundy" understandings...
Out of Your Mind: Tricksters, Interdependence and the Cosmic Game of Hide-and-Seek
Alan Watts introduced the Western world to the principles of Buddhism, Taoism and Hinduism and demonstrated how they were examples of how to live in today's hectic world. 'Out of Your Mind' immerses the reader in six of Alan Watts' most engaging teachings: discover how to break through the limits of...
Sanctifying Interpretation: Vocation, Holiness, and Scripture
| Author | Chris E. Green |
| ISBN | 1935931482 |
In this experimental and critically constructive monograph, Pentecostal theologian Chris Green offers an alternative to the standard Evangelical models of Scripture and scriptural hermeneutics. Instead of beginning with the usual epistemological questions about how the biblical texts can...
The Crucifixion of the Warrior God: Volumes 1 & 2
| Author | Gregory A. Boyd |
| ISBN | 1506420753 |
The Crucifixion of the Warrior God, in an epic constructive investigation, takes up the set of dramatic tensions between depictions of divinely sanctioned violence in Scripture and the message and life of peace of Jesus centering the New Testament. Over two volumes, author Gregory A. Boyd argues...
Her Gates Will Never Be Shut: Hell, Hope, and the New Jerusalem
| Author | Bradley Jersak |
| ISBN | 1606088823 |
Description: Everlasting hell and divine judgment, a lake of fire and brimstone--these mainstays of evangelical tradition have come under fire once again in recent decades. Would the God of love revealed by Jesus really consign the vast majority of humankind to a destiny of eternal, conscious torment?...
The Letters to the Seven Churches of Asia in Their Local Setting
| Author | Colin J. Hemer |
| ISBN | 0802847145 |
With a new foreword by David E. Aune This modern classic by Colin Hemer explores the seven letters in the book of Revelation against the historical background of the churches to which they were addressed. Based on literary, epigraphical, and archaeological sources and informed by Hemer's firsthand...
Kingdom, Grace, Judgment: Paradox, Outrage, and Vindication in the Parables of Jesus
| Author | Robert Farrar Capon |
| ISBN | 0802839495 |
Here in one volume is Robert Farrar Capon's widely praised trilogy on Jesus' parables — The Parables of the Kingdom, The Parables of Grace, and The Parables of Judgment. These studies offer a fresh, adventurous look at all of Jesus' parables, treated according to their major themes. With the same...
God Can't: How to Believe in God and Love after Tragedy, Abuse, and Other Evils
Many people wrestle with questions of evil. Some appeal to mystery (“God’s ways are not our ways”). Others say God allows evil for some greater purpose. Still others say God punishes with evil. Not only are these answers unsatisfying, they fail to support the view that God loves everyone all the...
