The Year of Our Lord 1943: Christian Humanism in an Age of Crisis
10 best books like The Year of Our Lord 1943: Christian Humanism in an Age of Crisis (Alan Jacobs): The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church’s Complicity in Racism, After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory, Imagining the Kingdom: How Worship Works, Conservatism: An Invitation to the Great Tradition, On Reading Well: Finding the Good Life Through Great Books, Awaiting the King: Reforming Public Theology, On the Road with Saint Augustine: A Real-World Spirituality for Restless Hearts, The Prodigal Prophet: Jonah and the Mystery of God's Mercy, The Common Rule: Habits of Purpose for an Age of Distraction, Disruptive Witness
The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church’s Complicity in Racism
| Author | Jemar Tisby |
| ISBN | 0310597269 |
In August of 1963, Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his famous "I Have a Dream" speech, calling on all Americans to view others not by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. Yet King included another powerful word, one that is often overlooked. Warning against the "tranquilizing...
After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory
| Author | Alasdair MacIntyre |
| ISBN | 0268006113 |
When After Virtue first appeared in 1981, it was recognized as a significant and potentially controversial critique of contemporary moral philosophy. Newsweek called it “a stunning new study of ethics by one of the foremost moral philosophers in the English-speaking world.” Since that time,...
| Author | James K.A. Smith |
| ISBN | 0801035783 |
How does worship work? How exactly does liturgical formation shape us? What are the dynamics of such transformation? In the second of James K. A. Smith's three-volume theology of culture, the author expands and deepens the analysis of cultural liturgies and Christian worship he developed in his well-received...
| Author | Roger Scruton |
| ISBN | 1250170567 |
"...one of the most eloquent and even moving evocations of the conservative tradition in Western politics, philosophy and culture I have ever read...the ideal primer for those who are new to conservative ideas..." --Richard Aldous, Wall Street Journal
A brief magisterial introduction...
On Reading Well: Finding the Good Life Through Great Books
| Author | Karen Swallow Prior |
| ISBN | 1587433966 |
Reading great literature well has the power to cultivate virtue. Great literature increases knowledge of and desire for the good life by showing readers what virtue looks like and where vice leads. It is not just what one reads but how one reads that cultivates virtue. Reading good literature well requires...
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...
The Prodigal Prophet: Jonah and the Mystery of God's Mercy
| Author | Timothy J. Keller |
| ISBN | 0525641629 |
An angry prophet. A feared and loathsome enemy. A devastating storm. And the surprising message of a merciful God to his people.
The story of Jonah is one of the most well-known parables in the Bible. It is also the most misunderstood. Many people, even those who are nonreligious, are familiar...
The Common Rule: Habits of Purpose for an Age of Distraction
| Author | Justin Whitmel Earley |
| ISBN | 0830845607 |
Habits form us more than we form them.
The modern world is a machine of a thousand invisible habits, forming us into anxious, busy, and depressed people. We yearn for the freedom and peace of the gospel, but remain addicted to our technology, shackled by our screens, and exhausted by our routines....
We live in a distracted, secular age. These two trends define life in Western society today. We are increasingly addicted to habits―and devices―that distract and "buffer" us from substantive reflection and deep engagement with the world. And we live in what Canadian philosopher Charles Taylor...
Something They Will Not Forget
Every teacher has suffered the demoralizing realization that most students quickly forget the content they are taught. Many sophomores, for example, could not pass a literature exam or history quiz which they aced during freshman year. While most teachers are too embarrassed to admit this, their...
