The Hauerwas Reader
8 best books like The Hauerwas Reader (Stanley Hauerwas): Revival, Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy, The Screwtape Letters, The Politics of Jesus, The Monks of War: The Military Religious Orders, Streams of Living Water: Celebrating the Great Traditions of Christian Faith, The Practice of Spiritual Direction, Christ and Culture
| Author | Stephen King |
| ISBN | 1476770387 |
In a small New England town, in the early 60s, a shadow falls over a small boy playing with his toy soldiers. Jamie Morton looks up to see a striking man, the new minister. Charles Jacobs, along with his beautiful wife, will transform the local church. The men and boys are all a bit in love with Mrs Jacobs;...
Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy
| Author | Eric Metaxas |
| ISBN | 1595551387 |
As Adolf Hitler and the Nazis seduced a nation, bullied a continent, and attempted to exterminate the Jews of Europe, a small number of dissidents and saboteurs worked to dismantle the Third Reich from the inside. One of these was Dietrich Bonhoeffer--a pastor and author, known as much for such spiritual...
The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis is a classic masterpiece of religious satire that entertains readers with its sly and ironic portrayal of human life and foibles from the vantage point of Screwtape, a highly placed assistant to "Our Father Below." At once wildly comic, deadly serious, and strikingly...
| Author | John Howard Yoder |
| ISBN | 0802807348 |
Tradition has painted a portrait of a Savior who stands aloof from governmental concerns and who calls his disciples to an apolitical life. But such a picture of Jesus is far from accurate, according to John Howard Yoder. This watershed work in New Testament ethics leads us to a Savior who was deeply concerned...
The Monks of War: The Military Religious Orders
| Author | Desmond Seward |
| ISBN | 0140195017 |
The military religious orders emerged during the Crusades as Christendom's stormtroopers in the savage conflict with Islam. Some of them still exist today, devoted to charitable works. The Monks of War is the first general history of these orders to have appeared since the eighteenth century. The...
| Author | Richard J. Foster |
| ISBN | 0060628227 |
The author of the bestselling celebration of discipline explores the great traditions of Christian spirituality and their role in spiritual renewal today.
In this landmark work, Foster examines the "streams of living water" –– the six dimensions of faith and practice that define Christian...
The Practice of Spiritual Direction
| Author | William A. Barry |
| ISBN | 0866839518 |
Short Review: I am considering going to formal training to become a spiritual director. Because I am who I am, I decided to read widely about spiritual direction as part of the decision making process.
This is a classic (originally published in 1982). The authors are Catholic, but it is widely...
| 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...
