The Greatest Prayer: A Revolutionary Manifesto and Hymn of Hope
10 best books like The Greatest Prayer: A Revolutionary Manifesto and Hymn of Hope (John Dominic Crossan): Holy Envy: Finding God in the Faith of Others, Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time: The Historical Jesus and the Heart of Contemporary Faith, Accidental Saints: Finding God in All the Wrong People, The Last Week: What the Gospels Really Teach About Jesus's Final Days in Jerusalem, The Heart of Christianity: Rediscovering a Life of Faith, The Universal Christ: How a Forgotten Reality Can Change Everything We See, Hope For and Believe, How the Bible Actually Works: In Which I Explain How An Ancient, Ambiguous, and Diverse Book Leads Us to Wisdom Rather Than Answers—and Why That's Great News, Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived, An Altar in the World: A Geography of Faith, Grateful: The Transformative Power of Giving Thanks
Holy Envy: Finding God in the Faith of Others
| Author | Barbara Brown Taylor |
| ISBN | 0062406582 |
The renowned and beloved New York Times bestselling author of An Altar in the World and Learning to Walk in the Dark recounts her moving discoveries of finding the sacred in unexpected places while teaching the world’s religions to undergraduates in rural Georgia, revealing how God delights...
| Author | Marcus J. Borg |
| ISBN | 0060609176 |
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...
Accidental Saints: Finding God in All the Wrong People
| Author | Nadia Bolz-Weber |
| ISBN | 1601427573 |
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
What if that person you've been trying to avoid is your best shot at grace today?
And what if that's the point?
In Accidental Saints, New York Times best-selling author Nadia Bolz-Weber invites readers into a surprising encounter with what...
| Author | Marcus J. Borg |
| ISBN | 0060872608 |
Top Jesus scholars Marcus J. Borg & John Dominic Crossan reveal a radical & little-known Jesus. As both authors reacted to & responded to questions about Mel Gibson's blockbuster The Passion of the Christ, they discovered that many Christians are unclear on the details of events during...
In The Heart of Christianity, world-renowned Jesus scholar and author of the bestseller Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time argues that the essential ingredients of a Christian life—faith, being born again, the kingdom of God, the gospel of love—are as vitally important today as they have...
The Universal Christ: How a Forgotten Reality Can Change Everything We See, Hope For and Believe
| Author | Richard Rohr |
| ISBN | 1524762091 |
Richard Rohr, one of the world's most influential spiritual thinkers, delivers his long-awaited book on Jesus. In this radical message of hope, Rohr shows how "Jesus" + "Christ" reveal the divine wholeness at the heart of things--and what that means for every one of us.
In his decades as a globally...
How the Bible Actually Works: In Which I Explain How An Ancient, Ambiguous, and Diverse Book Leads Us to Wisdom Rather Than Answers—and Why That's Great News
| Author | Peter Enns |
| ISBN | 0062686747 |
Controversial evangelical Bible scholar, popular blogger and podcast host of The Bible for Normal People, and author of The Bible Tells Me So and The Sin of Certainty explains that the Bible is not an instruction manual or rule book but a powerful learning tool that nurtures our spiritual growth by...
Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived
Millions of Christians have struggled with how to reconcile God's love and God's judgment: Has God created billions of people over thousands of years only to select a few to go to heaven and everyone else to suffer forever in hell? Is this acceptable to God? How is this "good news"? Troubling questions--so...
| Author | Barbara Brown Taylor |
| ISBN | 0061370460 |
In her critically acclaimed Leaving Church ("a beautiful, absorbing memoir."—Dallas Morning News), Barbara Brown Taylor wrote about leaving full-time ministry to become a professor, a decision that stretched the boundaries of her faith. Now, in her stunning follow-up, An Altar in the World,...
| Author | Diana Butler Bass |
| ISBN | 0062659510 |
The Wilbur Award-winning book Grateful is now available in paperback and with an updated subtitle.
If gratitude is good, why is it so hard to do? In Grateful, Diana Butler Bass untangles our conflicting understandings of gratitude and sets the table for a renewed practice of giving thanks.
We...
| Author | N.T. Wright |
| ISBN | 0802843204 |
Taking the Lord's Prayer clause by clause, Wright locates this prayer within the historical life and work of Jesus and allows the prayer's devotional application to grow out of its historical context. Grasping the Lord's Prayer in its original setting can be the starting point for a fresh understanding...
Short Stories by Jesus: The Enigmatic Parables of a Controversial Rabbi
| Author | Amy-Jill Levine |
| ISBN | 0061561010 |
The renowned biblical scholar, author of The Misunderstood Jew, and general editor for The Jewish Annotated New Testament interweaves history and spiritual analysis to explore Jesus’ most popular teaching parables, exposing their misinterpretations and making them lively and relevant for...
Lord, Teach Us: The Lord's Prayer & the Christian Life
| Author | Stanley Hauerwas |
| ISBN | 0687006147 |
I've been slowly conducting two studies.
The first one I came to surprisingly late in life, but it is a study of the person of Jesus. I found myself saying and even teaching things about Jesus without knowing why I thought them or where they came from. So I began a study of his place in history, his...
Reconstructing the Gospel: Finding Freedom from Slaveholder Religion
| Author | Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove |
| ISBN | 0830845348 |
"I am a man torn in two. And the gospel I inherited is divided."
Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove grew up in the Bible Belt in the American South as a faithful church-going Christian. But he gradually came to realize that the gospel his Christianity proclaimed was not good news for everybody. The same...
The Power of Love: Sermons, Reflections, and Wisdom to Uplift and Inspire
| Author | Michael B. Curry |
| ISBN | 0525542892 |
"Love is the way. Love is the only way. Those who follow in my way follow in the way of unconditional, unselfish, sacrificial love. And that kind of love can change the world."
--Bishop Michael Curry
Two billion people watched Bishop Michael Curry deliver his sermon on the redemptive...
The First Christmas: What the Gospels Really Teach About Jesus's Birth
| Author | Marcus J. Borg |
| ISBN | 0061430706 |
The perfect follow-up to The Last Week, Borg and Crossan's The First Christmas is an account of the two nativity narratives in the Gospels of Matthew and Luke. Borg and Crossan focus on discovering the actual literary story that the Gospels tell. Borg and Crossan feel that history has biased our readings...
Tyrant: Shakespeare on Politics
| Author | Stephen Greenblatt |
| ISBN | 0393356973 |
Examining the psyche—and psychoses—of the likes of Richard III, Macbeth, Lear, and Coriolanus, Greenblatt illuminates the ways in which William Shakespeare delved into the lust for absolute power and the disasters visited upon the societies over which these characters rule. Tyrant shows...
Living Jesus: Learning the Heart of the Gospel
| Author | Luke Timothy Johnson |
| ISBN | 0060642831 |
Who is the real Jesus? How can we experience the mystery, compelxity, and richness of his spirituality and teachings in our lives today? In this gently instructive and inspiring guide, Luke Timothy Johnson leads us to a deeper understanding and practice of classic Christian spirituality and faith....
