The Mind of the Maker
10 best books like The Mind of the Maker (Dorothy L. Sayers): Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art, Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer, The Discarded Image: An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature, Descent into Hell, Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community, An Experiment in Criticism, Manalive, Telling the Truth: The Gospel as Tragedy, Comedy, and Fairy Tale, Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places: A Conversation in Spiritual Theology, Planet Narnia: The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of C.S. Lewis
In this classic book, Madeleine L'Engle addresses the questions, What makes art Christian? What does it mean to be a Christian artist? What is the relationship between faith and art? Through L'Engle's beautiful and insightful essay, readers will find themselves called to what the author views as...
Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer
| Author | C.S. Lewis |
| ISBN | 0156027666 |
"We want to know not how we should pray if we were perfect but how we should pray being as we now are."
What are we doing when we pray? What is at the heart of this most intimate conversation, the dialogue between a person and God? How does prayer—its form, its regularity, its content, its insistence—shape...
| Author | C.S. Lewis |
| ISBN | 0521477352 |
To me, this might be C. S. Lewis' best book. I will have to cop to not really liking the Narnia books (too allegorical and those British schoolchildren are pretty annoying), and while I do quite like his "Space Trilogy" I think that Lewis was much better as a writer of academic non-fiction than he was as a...
| Author | Charles Williams |
| ISBN | 0802812201 |
Wow! I am so glad I returned to this story! It took me less time to read it this second time but I got so much more out of it. Rereading Williams’s tale in relation to C. S. Lewis's book The Great Divorce made all the difference. Having read Many Dimensions, another Williams thriller, during the intervening...
Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community
| Author | Dietrich Bonhoeffer |
| ISBN | 0060608528 |
In Life Together, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, renowned Christian minister, professor, and author of The Cost of Discipleship recounts his unique fellowship in an underground seminary during the Nazi years in Germany. Giving practical advice on how life together in Christ can be sustained in families...
An Experiment in Criticism
| Author | C.S. Lewis |
| ISBN | 0521422817 |
Why do we read literature and how do we judge it? C.S. Lewis's classic analysis springs from the conviction that literature exists for the joy of the reader and that books should be judged by the kind of reading they invite. Crucial to his notion of judging literature is a commitment to laying aside expectations...
| Author | G.K. Chesterton |
| ISBN | 0486414051 |
Perhaps the most light-hearted of all Chesterton's "serious" works, Manalive pits a group of disillusioned young people against Mr. Innocent Smith, a bubbly, high-spirited gentleman who literally falls into their midst. Later accused of murder and denounced for philandering everywhere he goes,...
| Author | Frederick Buechner |
| ISBN | 0060611561 |
Buechner examines the arc of the gospel using the well known genres of tragedy, comedy, and fairy tale--that is, bad news, good news, and transformation or fantasy. He begins with the tragedy of sin and the fallen world, pictured in Christ's shed tears over the death of Lazarus. From there, he movies...
| Author | Eugene H. Peterson |
| ISBN | 0802828752 |
Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places reunites spirituality and theology in a cultural context where these two vital facets of Christian faith have been rent asunder. Lamenting the vacuous, often pagan nature of contemporary American spirituality, Eugene Peterson here firmly grounds spirituality...
| Author | Michael Ward |
| ISBN | 0195313879 |
For over half a century, scholars have laboured to show that C. S. Lewis's famed but apparently disorganised Chronicles of Narnia have an underlying symbolic coherence, pointing to such possible unifying themes as the seven sacraments, the seven deadly sins, and the seven books of Spenser's Faerie...
| Author | Wendell Berry |
| ISBN | 1582431604 |
"This is a book about Heaven," says Jayber Crow, "but I must say too that . . . I have wondered sometimes if it would not finally turn out to be a book about Hell." It is 1932 and he has returned to his native Port William to become the town's barber.
Orphaned at age ten, Jayber Crow's acquaintance with...
| Author | Wendell Berry |
| ISBN | 1593760787 |
Hannah Coulter is Wendell Berry's seventh novel and his first to employ the voice of a woman character in its telling. Hannah, the now-elderly narrator, recounts the love she has for the land and for her community. She remembers each of her two husbands, and all places and community connections threatened...
The Story of Reality: How the World Began, How It Ends, and Everything Important that Happens in Between
| Author | Gregory Koukl |
| ISBN | 0310525047 |
Biblical Christianity is more than just another private religious view. It’s more than just a personal relationship with God or a source of moral teaching.Christianity is a picture of reality.It explains why the world is the way it is. When the pieces of this puzzle are properly assembled, we see...
When things get bad, I take out the bourbon. When, as occasionally happens, time drags on and things don't get any better, I put the bourbon away and take out C. S. Lewis. His books are short, readable, and filled with an uncanny amount of wisdom. His genius, and the reason he's always been a comfort to me,...
Awaiting the King: Reforming Public Theology
In this culmination of his widely read and highly acclaimed Cultural Liturgies project, James K. A. Smith examines the political through the lens of liturgy. What if, he asks, citizens are not only thinkers or believers but lovers? Smith explores how our analysis of political institutions would...
On the Road with Saint Augustine: A Real-World Spirituality for Restless Hearts
| Author | James K.A. Smith |
| ISBN | 1587433893 |
This is not a book about Saint Augustine. In a way, it's a book Augustine has written about each of us. Popular speaker and award-winning author James K. A. Smith has spent time on the road with Augustine, and he invites us to take this journey too, for this ancient African thinker knows far more about us...
Meister Eckhart's Book of the Heart: Meditations for the Restless Soul
| Author | Jon M. Sweeney |
| ISBN | 1571747648 |
Meister Eckhart (1260-1328) was a priest, a mystic, and nearly a heretic (he died before the Church court's verdict). In the 20th century, the Roman Catholic Church rehabilitated him and the late Pope John Paul II spoke of his work with fondness.
However, what makes him of particular interest...
Mary, Who Wrote Frankenstein
| Author | Linda Bailey |
| ISBN | 1770495592 |
The story of the girl behind one of the most well-known novels -- and monsters -- ever, perfectly timed for the 200th anniversary of the publication of Frankenstein.
How does a story begin? Sometimes it begins with a dream, and a dreamer. Mary is one such dreamer, a little girl who learns to read...
