To Change the World: The Irony, Tragedy, and Possibility of Christianity in the Late Modern World
10 best books like To Change the World: The Irony, Tragedy, and Possibility of Christianity in the Late Modern World (James Davison Hunter): My Name Is Asher Lev, Surprised by Hope: Rethinking Heaven, the Resurrection, and the Mission of the Church, The Gospel in a Pluralist Society, Christ and Culture Revisited, Imagining the Kingdom: How Worship Works, Desiring the Kingdom: Worship, Worldview, and Cultural Formation, Resident Aliens: Life in the Christian Colony, You Are What You Love: The Spiritual Power of Habit, Awaiting the King: Reforming Public Theology, Culture Making: Recovering Our Creative Calling
| Author | Chaim Potok |
| ISBN | 1400031044 |
Asher Lev is a Ladover Hasid who keeps kosher, prays three times a day and believes in the Ribbono Shel Olom, the Master of the Universe. Asher Lev is an artist who is compulsively driven to render the world he sees and feels even when it leads him to blasphemy. In this stirring and often visionary novel,...
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...
The Gospel in a Pluralist Society
| Author | Lesslie Newbigin |
| ISBN | 0802804268 |
How does the gospel relate to a pluralist society? What is the Christian message in a society marked by religious pluralism, ethnic diversity, and cultural relativism? Should Christians encountering today's pluralist society concentrate on evangelism or on dialogue? How does the prevailing climate...
| Author | D.A. Carson |
| ISBN | 0802831745 |
Called to live in the world, but not to be of it, Christians must maintain a balancing act that becomes more precarious the further our culture departs from its Judeo-Christian roots. How should members of the church interact with such a culture, especially as deeply enmeshed as most of us have...
| 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 | James K.A. Smith |
| ISBN | 0801035775 |
Malls, stadiums, and universities are actually liturgical structures that influence and shape our thoughts and affections. Humans–as Augustine noted–are "desiring agents," full of longings and passions; in brief, we are what we love.
James K. A. Smith focuses on the themes of liturgy...
Resident Aliens: Life in the Christian Colony
| Author | Stanley Hauerwas |
| ISBN | 0687361591 |
In this bold and visionary book, two leading Christian thinkers explore the "alien" status of Christians in today's world and offer a compelling new vision of how the Christian church can regain its vitality, battle its malaise, reclaim its capacity to nourish souls, and stand firmly against the illusions,...
You Are What You Love: The Spiritual Power of Habit
You are what you love. But you might not love what you think.
In this book, award-winning author James K. A. Smith shows that who and what we worship fundamentally shape our hearts. And while we desire to shape culture, we are not often aware of how culture shapes us. We might not realize the ways...
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...
Culture Making: Recovering Our Creative Calling
| Author | Andy Crouch |
| ISBN | 0830833943 |
2009 Christianity Today Book Award winner! Named one of Publishers Weekly's best books of 2008 (religion category).
It is not enough to condemn culture. Nor is it sufficient merely to critique culture or to copy culture. Most of the time, we just consume culture. But the only way to change culture...
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...
Divided by Faith: Evangelical Religion and the Problem of Race in America
| Author | Michael O. Emerson |
| ISBN | 0195147073 |
Through a nationwide telephone survey of 2,000 people and an additional 200 face-to-face interviews, Michael O. Emerson and Christian Smith probed the grassroots of white evangelical America. They found that despite recent efforts by the movement's leaders to address the problem of racial discrimination,...
Every Good Endeavor: Connecting Your Work to God's Plan for the World
| Author | Timothy J. Keller |
| ISBN | 0525952705 |
New York Times bestselling author of The Songs of Jesus Timothy Keller shows how God calls each of us to express meaning and purpose through our work and careers.
In a work world that is increasingly competitive and insecure, people often have nagging questions: Why am I doing this work? Why...
| Author | H. Richard Niebuhr |
| ISBN | 0061300039 |
This 50th-anniversary edition, with a new foreword by the distinguished historian Martin E. Marty, who regards this book as one of the most vital books of our time, as well as an introduction by the author never before included in the book, and a new preface by James Gustafson, the premier Christian ethicist...
Proper Confidence: Faith, Doubt, and Certainty in Christian Discipleship
| Author | Lesslie Newbigin |
| ISBN | 0802808565 |
Looking to end the divisive conflict that has raged between Christians who attack each other either as "liberals" or as "fundamentalists," Newbigin here gives a historical account of the roots of this conflict in order to begin laying the foundation for a middle ground that will benefit the Christian...
