The Lost History of Christianity: The Thousand-Year Golden Age of the Church in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia—and How It Died
10 best books like The Lost History of Christianity: The Thousand-Year Golden Age of the Church in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia—and How It Died (Philip Jenkins): The Rise of Christianity, How Should We Then Live? The Rise and Decline of Western Thought and Culture, The Gnostic Gospels, The Varieties of Religious Experience, Reality is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World, Heart's Blood, Evangelism & the Sovereignty of God, Church History in Plain Language, Dragon's Heart, The Story of Christianity: Volume 1: The Early Church to the Reformation
| Author | Rodney Stark |
| ISBN | 0060677015 |
This "fresh, blunt, and highly persuasive account of how the West was won—for Jesus" (Newsweek) is now available in paperback. Stark's provocative report challenges conventional wisdom and finds that Christianity's astounding dominance of the Western world arose from its offer of a better,...
How Should We Then Live? The Rise and Decline of Western Thought and Culture
| Author | Francis A. Schaeffer |
| ISBN | 0891072926 |
How Should We Then Live is a discussion of how philosophy, art, and music have changed throughout history, and what these changes say about the human race and where we are headed.
This book reads like an art history class. Schaeffer takes you through history chronologically, through the dark...
| Author | Elaine Pagels |
| ISBN | 0679724532 |
The Gnostic Gospels is a landmark study of the long-buried roots of Christianity, a work of luminous scholarship and wide popular appeal. First published in 1979 to critical acclaim, winning the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award, The Gnostic Gospels has continued to grow...
The Varieties of Religious Experience
| Author | William James |
| ISBN | 1402199031 |
"I am neither a theologian, nor a scholar learned in the history of religions, nor an anthropologist. Psychology is the only branch of learning in which I am particularly versed. To the psychologist the religious propensities of man must be at least as interesting as any other of the facts pertaining...
Reality is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World
| Author | Jane McGonigal |
| ISBN | 0224089250 |
More than 31 million people in the UK are gamers. The average young person in the UK will spend 10,000 hours gaming by the age of twenty-one. What's causing this mass exodus? According to world-renowned game designer Jane McGonigal the answer is simple: videogames are fulfilling genuine human needs....
Okay, I remember this plot even less than the first one! That's why I go back and reread childhood favorites, I guess ;) It's still quite good. The main character, Jakkin, grows up some, and much of the advice he gets on how to operate in the adult world resonates with me, so I feel I must have absorbed and adopted...
Evangelism & the Sovereignty of God
If God is in control of everything, can Christians sit back and not bother to evangelize? Or does active evangelism imply that God is not really sovereign at all? J.I. Packer shows in this classic study how both of these attitudes are false. In a careful review of the biblical evidence, he shows how a right...
Church History in Plain Language
| Author | Bruce L. Shelley |
| ISBN | 0849938619 |
I'll begin by saying that this is probably one of the most easily readable church history books available. The writing style is straightforward and non-academic. The chapter lengths are perfect for daily reading. For a survey of the last 2000 years, Shelley manages to put in a lot of detail without getting...
| Author | Jane Yolen |
| ISBN | 0152059199 |
Austar IV isn't the planet it once was, and when Jakkin and Akki finally return to the dragon nursery, their homecoming arouses mixed emotions. Together they've survived the insurmountable, and now they can weather the brutal conditions of Dark After and communicate with the dragons they love. But...
| Author | Justo L. González |
| ISBN | 0060633158 |
For a very general introduction to the early history of the Church up until the Protestant Reformation, I would recommend this book. But only as a primary introduction.
Its chief virtues are that it is highly readable (high school reading level) and easy to understand; the chapters are brief...
Amazing Grace: William Wilberforce and the Heroic Campaign to End Slavery
| Author | Eric Metaxas |
| ISBN | 0061173002 |
Amazing Grace tells the story of the remarkable life of the British abolitionist William Wilberforce (1759–1833). This accessible biography chronicles Wilberforce's extraordinary role as a human rights activist, cultural reformer, and member of Parliament.
At the center of this...
The Second Chance Supper Club
| Author | Nicole Meier |
| ISBN | 1542041562 |
Two estranged sisters reunite in an emotional novel of family, forgiveness, lost hope, and new beginnings.
They had a forever bond, until a sudden tragedy thrust them apart. Now, each at a crossroad in her own life, two sisters’ paths are about to intersect.
Broadcast journalist...
| Author | Abraham Joshua Heschel |
| ISBN | 0374513732 |
"Philosophy may be defined as the art of asking the right questions...Awareness of the problem outlives all solutions. The answers are questions in disguise, every new answer giving rise to new questions." This example of Rabbi Heschel's thought and manner of expression, familiar to the readers...
The Devil's Dinner: A Gastronomic and Cultural History of Chili Peppers
Stuart Walton's The Devil's Dinner looks at the history of hot peppers, their culinary uses through the ages, and the significance of spicy food in an increasingly homogenous world.
The Devil's Dinner is the first authoritative history of chili peppers. There are countless books on cooking...
The Gospel-Driven Church: Uniting Church Growth Dreams with the Metrics of Grace
Many evangelical churches face the problem of the open "back door"—even as new people arrive, older members are leaving, looking for something else. Combined with this problem is the discipleship deficit, the difficult truth that most evangelicals are not reaching the unchurched at the rates...
An unforgettable summer at the Seabreeze Inn changes lives forever.
After Ivy Marin decided to renovate the rambling beach house her late husband had purchased without her knowledge, she and her sister, Shelly, rented extra rooms online. Yet, due to a fire along the Summer Beach ridgetop,...
In the second novel in the Wildflower House series, the author of The Memory of Butterflies reminds us that to achieve our dreams, we must first open our hearts.
Kara Hart suffered overwhelming heartache when she lost her mother and husband, and her father’s sudden death might be the blow that breaks...
Villa Azure: A Greek Island Summer Read (Escape to the Islands Book 1)
Relax, sit back and escape to the idyllic Greek Islands with the first in a series of escapist summer tales from the USA Today bestselling author ...
Life is sweet for Joanna until the day she gets a call from a lawyer in Greece that knocks her for six.
Her father, whom she has never met, has died....
