The Inescapable Love of God

10 best books like The Inescapable Love of God (Thomas Talbott): The Princess and the Goblin, Surprised by Hope: Rethinking Heaven, the Resurrection, and the Mission of the Church, Inspired: Slaying Giants, Walking on Water, and Loving the Bible Again, Inspiration and Incarnation: Evangelicals and the Problem of the Old Testament, The Universal Christ: How a Forgotten Reality Can Change Everything We See, Hope For and Believe, The Bible Tells Me So: Why Defending Scripture Has Made Us Unable to Read It, Finding God in the Waves: How I Lost My Faith and Found It Again Through Science, Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived, The Sacred Enneagram: Finding Your Unique Path to Spiritual Growth, The Great Divorce

The Princess and the Goblin

Author	George MacDonald
ISBN	0140367462

Published in 1872, The Princess and the Goblin is one of the first books in the modern fantasy genre. This book had tremendous and very visible influence on all the (now much more famous) authors that came after it.

It is of course very dated. It does not match the standards that fantasy have created...

Surprised by Hope: Rethinking Heaven, the Resurrection, and the Mission of the Church

Author	N.T. Wright
ISBN	0061551821

In Surprised by Hope: Rethinking Heaven, the Resurrection, and the Mission of the Church, top-selling author and Anglican bishop, N.T. Wright tackles the biblical question of what happens after we die and shows how most Christians get it wrong. We do not “go to” heaven; we are resurrected and heaven...

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...

Inspiration and Incarnation: Evangelicals and the Problem of the Old Testament

Author	Peter Enns
ISBN	0801027306

In this accessible study, Peter Enns offers an evangelical affirmation of biblical authority that considers questions raised by the nature of the Old Testament text.
Enns looks at three questions raised by biblical scholars that seem to threaten traditional views of Scripture. First, he considers...

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...

The Bible Tells Me So: Why Defending Scripture Has Made Us Unable to Read It

Author	Peter Enns
ISBN	0062272020

The controversial Bible scholar and author of The Evolution of Adam recounts his transformative spiritual journey in which he discovered a new, more honest way to love and appreciate God’s Word.

Trained as an evangelical Bible scholar, Peter Enns loved the Scriptures and shared his devotion,...

Finding God in the Waves: How I Lost My Faith and Found It Again Through Science

Author	Mike McHargue
ISBN	1101906049

From the host of the popular podcasts, The Liturgists Podcast and Ask Science Mike, a story of having faith, losing it, and finding it again through science—revealing how the latest in neuroscience, physics, and biology help us understand God, faith, and ourselves.
 
What do you do when...

Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived

Author

Rob Bell

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...

The Sacred Enneagram: Finding Your Unique Path to Spiritual Growth

Author	Christopher L. Heuertz
ISBN	0310348277

For all the ways we live unawakened lives, the enneagram is here to help.

The Sacred Enneagram is a trustworthy, richly insightful guide to finding yourself in the enneagram’s 9-type profiles, and applying this practical wisdom for a life transformed. Far more than a personality test,...

The Great Divorce

Author

C.S. Lewis

Alternative cover for ISBN: 978-0-00-746123-3

C.S. Lewis’ The Great Divorce is a classic Christian allegorical tale about a bus ride from hell to heaven. An extraordinary meditation upon good and evil, grace and judgment, Lewis’s revolutionary idea in the The Great Divorce is that...

Insurrection: To Believe Is Human To Doubt, Divine

Author	Peter Rollins
ISBN	1451609000

In this incendiary new work, the controversial author and speaker Peter Rollins proclaims that the Christian faith is not primarily concerned with questions regarding life after death but with the possibility of life before death.

In order to unearth this truth, Rollins prescribes a radical...

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 Evangelical Universalist

Author	Gregory MacDonald
ISBN	1597523658

- Can an orthodox Christian, committed to the historic faith of the Church and the authority of the Bible, be a universalist?
- Is it possible to believe that salvation is found only by grace, through faith in Christ, and yet to maintain that in the end all people will be saved?
- Can one believe...

Four Views on Hell: Second Edition

Author	Preston Sprinkle
ISBN	0310516463

Recent years have seen much controversy regarding hell: Do we go to heaven or hell when we die? Or do we cease to exist? Are believers and unbelievers ultimately saved in the end?

This second edition of Four Views on Hell, featuring all new contributors, highlights why the church still needs...

Heaven's Doors: Wider Than You Ever Believed!

Author

George W. Sarris

Silver Medal Winner in Theology in 2018 Illumination Awards for Exemplary Christian Books.

What happens to us after we die? For the first 500 years after Christ, most Christians believed that God would ultimately redeem all of his creation. Hell was real, but it had a positive purpose, and...

The New Testament: A Translation

Author	David Bentley Hart
ISBN	0300186096

From one of our most celebrated writers on religion comes this fresh, bold, and unsettling new translation of the New Testament

David Bentley Hart undertook this new translation of the New Testament in the spirit of “etsi doctrina non daretur,” “as if doctrine is not given.” Reproducing...

Hope Beyond Hell

Author	Gerry Beauchemin
ISBN	0977279308

I really enjoyed this book. It's a little dry in places, and I actually took the time to look up the scriptures and read them in full context, so it was something of a feat. However, it was worth it. I was already a universalist (because it's really the only thing that makes sense!) so I was already in agreement...

The Human Faces of God: What Scripture Reveals When It Gets God Wrong (and Why Inerrancy Tries To Hide It)

Author

Thom Stark

Does accepting the doctrine of biblical inspiration necessitate belief in biblical inerrancy? The Bible has always functioned authoritatively in the life of the church, but what exactly should that mean? Must it mean the Bible is without error in all historical details and ethical teachings? What...