The Meaning of Jesus
10 best books like The Meaning of Jesus (Marcus J. Borg): The Cost of Discipleship, Surprised by Hope: Rethinking Heaven, the Resurrection, and the Mission of the Church, Searching for God Knows What, The Prophetic Imagination, Justification: God's Plan & Paul's Vision, Commentary on the New Testament Use of the Old Testament, The Crucified God: The Cross of Christ as the Foundation and Criticism of Christian Theology, The New Testament and the People of God, The Challenge of Jesus: Rediscovering Who Jesus Was and Is, The Universal Christ: How a Forgotten Reality Can Change Everything We See, Hope For and Believe
| Author | Dietrich Bonhoeffer |
| ISBN | 0684815001 |
One of the most important theologians of the twentieth century illuminates the relationship between ourselves and the teachings of Jesus in this classic text on ethics, humanism, and civic duty.
What can the call to discipleship, the adherence to the word of Jesus, mean today to the businessman,...
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...
Searching for God Knows What
| Author | Donald Miller |
| ISBN | 0785263713 |
In Searching for God Knows What, Donald Miller's provocative and funny book, he shows readers that the greatest desire of "every" person is the desire for redemption. Every person is constantly seeking redemption (or at least the feeling of it) in his or her life, believing countless gospels that promise...
The Prophetic Imagination
| Author | Walter Brueggemann |
| ISBN | 0800632877 |
It is almost cliche to say that our world has been numbed into apathy about a great many things, spirituality included. If fact, I believe it would be fair to say that many Christians have found their faith to be drained of mysticism and imagination. Taught that mysticism is evil or somehow against the...
Justification: God's Plan & Paul's Vision
| Author | Tom Wright |
| ISBN | 0830838635 |
Few issues are more central to the Christian faith than the nature, scope and means of salvation. Many have thought it to be largely a transaction that gets one to heaven. In this riveting book, N. T. Wright explains that God's salvation is radically more than this. At the heart of much vigorous debate...
| Author | G.K. Beale |
| ISBN | 0801026938 |
An Exploration of Old Testament Quotations, Allusions, and Echoes Occurring from Matthew through Revelation
"This really is a new sort of commentary! For the first time we are given a continuous exegetical reading of the way each New Testament book quotes, alludes to, and evokes the Old Testament...
The Crucified God: The Cross of Christ as the Foundation and Criticism of Christian Theology
| Author | Jürgen Moltmann |
| ISBN | 0800628225 |
"This is Jürgen Moltmann's best and therefore most important book. He has substantially changed the central thrust of his theology without sacrificing its most vital element, its passionate concern for alleviation of the world's suffering."
-Langdon Gilkey
"The Crucified God rewards,...
| Author | N.T. Wright |
| ISBN | 0800626818 |
Part of a five-volume project on the theological questions surrounding the origins of Christianity, this book offers a reappraisal of literary, historical and theological readings of the New Testament, arguing for a form of "critical realism" that facilitates different readings of the text.
Provides...
The Challenge of Jesus: Rediscovering Who Jesus Was and Is
| Author | N.T. Wright |
| ISBN | 0830822003 |
Today a renewed and vigorous scholarly quest for the historical Jesus is underway. In the midst of well publicized and controversial books on Jesus, N. T. Wright's lectures and writings have been widely recognized for providing a fresh, provocative and historically credible portrait. Out of his...
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...
| Author | Phyllis A. Tickle |
| ISBN | 1596445750 |
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...
| Author | Raymond E. Brown |
| ISBN | 0385247672 |
Every generation needs a comprehensive, reliable Introduction to the New Testament that opens the biblical text to the novice. Raymond E. Brown's "An Introduction to the New Testament" is the most trustworthy and authoritative guidebook for a generation seeking to understand the Christian Bible.Universally...
When Brian McLaren began offering an alternative vision of Christian faith and life in books such as "A New Kind of Christian" and "A Generous Orthodoxy, " he ignited a firestorm of praise and condemnation that continues to spread across the religious landscape. To some religious conservatives, McLaren...
| Author | John Dominic Crossan |
| ISBN | 0060616628 |
Crossan does a textual analysis of canonical gospels, non canonical gospels and other extrabiblical texts using fields of study such as medical anthropology, cultural anthropology, and biblical archaeology to create a reconstruction of the historical Jesus. What i appreciate most about this...
Simply Christian: Why Christianity Makes Sense
| Author | N.T. Wright |
| ISBN | 0060507152 |
Why do we expect justice? Why do we crave spirituality? Why are we attracted to beauty? Why are relationships often so painful? And how will the world be made right? These are not simply perennial questions all generations must struggle with, but, according to N. T. Wright, are the very echoes of a voice...
Jesus and the Victory of God
| Author | N.T. Wright |
| ISBN | 0800626826 |
In many ways this is the book that permanently altered the course of my theology. Even if I don't agree (and I do) and want to go back to "Vanilla Reformed," the questions have already been asked. Pandora has opened the box.
Contrary to conservative reactionaries, Wright shatters the liberal...
| Author | J.I. Packer |
| ISBN | 0891078193 |
J. I. Packer has had a long-standing passion for the Puritans. Their understanding of God and His ways with man has largely formed his own spirituality and theological outlook. In A Quest for Godliness, the esteemed author of Knowing God and a dozen other books shares with his readers the rich world of...
Scripture and the Authority of God: How to Read the Bible Today
| Author | N.T. Wright |
| ISBN | 0062011952 |
In Scripture and the Authority of God: How to Read the Bible Today, Widely respected Bible and Jesus scholar, N. T. Wright gives new life to the old, tattered doctrine of the authority of scripture, delivering a fresh, helpful, and concise statement on the current “battles for the Bible,” and restoring...
