What the Gospels Meant
8 best books like What the Gospels Meant (Garry Wills): The Temptation of St. Antony, Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book, Against Nature, Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah, Reading the Bible Again for the First Time: Taking the Bible Seriously but Not Literally, The Heart of Christianity: Rediscovering a Life of Faith, Jesus: A Revolutionary Biography, The Churchill Factor: How One Man Made History
| Author | Gustave Flaubert |
| ISBN | 0140444106 |
A book that deeply influenced the young Freud and was the inspiration for many artists, The Temptation of Saint Anthony was Flaubert's lifelong work, thirty years in the making. Based on the story of the third-century saint who lived on an isolated mountaintop in the Egyptian desert, it is a fantastical...
Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book
| Author | Walker Percy |
| ISBN | 0312253990 |
I have read and reread this book half a dozen times. No doubt that number will reach a dozen or more during the course of my lifetime. It is, first of all, absolutely hilarious: a subtler, non-narrative, written precursor to "I Heart Huckabees." Who are we? Why are we here? What is the problem of the Self...
| Author | Joris-Karl Huysmans |
| ISBN | 0140447636 |
With a title translated either as Against Nature or as Against The Grain, this wildly original fin-de-siècle novel follows its sole character, Des Esseintes, a decadent, ailing aristocrat who retreats to an isolated villa where he indulges his taste for luxury and excess. Veering between nervous...
| Author | Richard Bach |
| ISBN | 0099427869 |
In the cloud-washed airspace between the cornfields of Illinois and blue infinity, a man puts his faith in the propeller of his biplane. For disillusioned writer and itinerant barnstormer Richard Bach, belief is as real as a full tank of gas and sparks firing in the cylinders...until he meets Donald...
Reading the Bible Again for the First Time: Taking the Bible Seriously but Not Literally
| Author | Marcus J. Borg |
| ISBN | 0060609192 |
Many Christians mistakenly believe that their only choice is either to reconcile themselves to a fundamentalist reading of scripture (a "literal-factual" approach) or to simply reject the Bible as something that could bring meaning and value into their lives. In Reading the Bible Again for the First...
In The Heart of Christianity, world-renowned Jesus scholar and author of the bestseller Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time argues that the essential ingredients of a Christian life—faith, being born again, the kingdom of God, the gospel of love—are as vitally important today as they have...
| 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...
The Churchill Factor: How One Man Made History
| Author | Boris Johnson |
| ISBN | 1594633029 |
From London’s inimitable mayor, Boris Johnson, the story of how Churchill’s eccentric genius shaped not only his world but our own.
On the fiftieth anniversary of Churchill’s death, Boris Johnson celebrates the singular brilliance of one of the most important leaders of the twentieth...
