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The Heart of Christianity: Rediscovering a Life of Faith

10 best books like The Heart of Christianity: Rediscovering a Life of Faith (Marcus J. Borg): The Naked Now: Learning to See as the Mystics See, Christianity for the Rest of Us: How the Neighborhood Church Is Transforming the Faith, A New Kind of Christianity: Ten Questions That Are Transforming the Faith, If Grace Is True: Why God Will Save Every Person, The Wisdom Jesus: Transforming Heart and Mind, The Good Book: Reading the Bible with Mind and Heart, A New Christianity for a New World: Why Traditional Faith is Dying How a New Faith is Being Born, The Power of Parable: How Fiction by Jesus Became Fiction about Jesus, The Great Emergence: How Christianity is Changing and Why, The Future of Faith

The Naked Now: Learning to See as the Mystics See
AuthorRichard Rohr
ISBN0824525434
For Christians seeking a way of thinking outside of strict dualities, this guide explores methods for letting go of division and living in the present. Drawn from the Gospels, Jesus, Paul, and the great Christian contemplatives, this examination reveals how many of the hidden truths of Christianity...
Christianity for the Rest of Us: How the Neighborhood Church Is Transforming the Faith
AuthorDiana Butler Bass
ISBN0060836946
For decades the accepted wisdom has been that America's mainline Protestant churches are in decline, eclipsed by evangelical mega-churches. Church and religion expert Diana Butler Bass wondered if this was true, and this book is the result of her extensive, three-year study of centrist and progressive...
A New Kind of Christianity: Ten Questions That Are Transforming the Faith
AuthorBrian D. McLaren
ISBN0061853984
“Some books provide us with information about the world, but every once in a while a book appears that enables us to imagine new, more wonderful worlds. [A New Kind of Christianity] is one of these.” —Peter Rollins, Ikon

A New Kind of Christianity is Brian D. McLaren’s much anticipated...
If Grace Is True: Why God Will Save Every Person
AuthorPhilip Gulley
ISBN0062517058
This is a terribly confused and confusing book. Let me say plainly: I am interested in reading arguments for a specifically Christian universalism.

This, however, is a pick-and-choose theology that is illogical, poorly argued, and based on the simple belief that "God whispered to" the author...
The Wisdom Jesus: Transforming Heart and Mind
AuthorCynthia Bourgeault
ISBN1590305809
If you put aside what you think you know about Jesus and approach the Gospels as though for the first time, something remarkable happens: Jesus emerges as a teacher of the transformation of consciousness. Cynthia Bourgeault is a masterful guide to Jesus's vision and to the traditional contemplative...
The Good Book: Reading the Bible with Mind and Heart
AuthorPeter J. Gomes
ISBN0060088303
A very lively, excellent, and relevant booking on reading the Bible. It was written for readers across the spectrum - from those who are intimidated by it or curious, to those who may feel they know it rather well. Though this topic may seem prudishly boring, the author has a wonderful way of bringing both...
A New Christianity for a New World: Why Traditional Faith is Dying How a New Faith is Being Born
AuthorJohn Shelby Spong
ISBN0060670630
In his bestselling book Why Christianity Must Change or Die, Bishop John Shelby Spong described the toxins that are poisoning the Church. Now he offers the antidote, calling Christians everywhere into a new and radical reformation for a new age. Spong looks beyond traditional boundaries to open new...
The Power of Parable: How Fiction by Jesus Became Fiction about Jesus
AuthorJohn Dominic Crossan
ISBN0061875694
The world’s foremost Jesus scholar John Dominic Crossan shows us how the parables present throughout the New Testament not only reveal what Jesus wanted to teach but also provide the key for explaining how the Gospels’ writers sought to explain the Prophet of Nazareth to the world. In this meaningful...
The Great Emergence: How Christianity is Changing and Why
AuthorPhyllis A. Tickle
ISBN1596445750
From the church's birth to the reign of St. Gregory the great, to the Great Schism and through the Reformation, Phyllis Tickle notes that every 500 years the church has been rocked by massive transitions. Remarkably enough, Tickle suggests to us that we live in such a time right now. The Great Emergence...
The Future of Faith
AuthorHarvey Cox
ISBN0061755524
“A beautiful book and a Cox classic….Readers will be grateful that they joined him on his journey.” —E.J. Dionne Jr., author of Souled Out

“Insightful, provocative, and inspiring—I even found myself uttering a hearty evangelical ‘Amen!’” —Richard Mouw, President,...
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