Who's Afraid of Postmodernism?: Taking Derrida, Lyotard, and Foucault to Church
10 best books like Who's Afraid of Postmodernism?: Taking Derrida, Lyotard, and Foucault to Church (James K.A. Smith): Letters to a Young Catholic, Surprised by Hope: Rethinking Heaven, the Resurrection, and the Mission of the Church, Mathematics: The Loss of Certainty, The Prophetic Imagination, Why I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects, The Great Emergence: How Christianity is Changing and Why, A Passion for God: The Spiritual Journey of A. W. Tozer, A Primer on Postmodernism, Faith Formation in a Secular Age: Responding to the Church's Obsession with Youthfulness, The Last Superstition: A Refutation of the New Atheism
Letters to a Young Catholic
| Author | George Weigel |
| ISBN | 0465092705 |
In this remarkable tour of the Catholic world, George Weigel helps us understand how Catholicism fosters what Flannery O'Connor called "the habit of being." Taking the reader by the hand, Weigel embarks on a journey to Catholic landmarks as diverse as Chartres Cathedral and St. Mary's Church in Greenville,...
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...
Mathematics: The Loss of Certainty
| Author | Morris Kline |
| ISBN | 0195030850 |
For what it's worth, the correct title is Mathematics: The Loss of Certainty, not just "Mathematics" -- and omitted line matters as it is this, truly that the book is about. Kline exposes the gradual discovery by mathematicians that their great endeavor did not lead to perfect truth, as was once supposed,...
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...
Why I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects
| Author | Bertrand Russell |
| ISBN | 0671203231 |
Dedicated as few men have been to the life of reason, Bertrand Russell has always been concerned with the basic questions to which religion also addresses itself -- questions about man's place in the universe and the nature of the good life, questions that involve life after death, morality, freedom,...
| 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 | Lyle Wesley Dorsett |
| ISBN | 0802481337 |
"I fear we shall never see another Tozer. Men like him are not college-bred but Spirit-taught." Leonard Ravenhill, 20th century British evangelist.
Pastor A. W. Tozer, author of the Christian classics The Pursuit of God and The Knowledge of the Holy, was a complex, intensely private, deeply...
A Primer on Postmodernism
| Author | Stanley J. Grenz |
| ISBN | 0802808646 |
The author is not a philosopher he is an academic theologian who is attempting to explain to Christian practitioners what does post modernism mean and how modern Evangelical Christians need to deal with its effects. He writes the book in 1996 and is sort of dated in some respects such as when he says MTV...
Faith Formation in a Secular Age: Responding to the Church's Obsession with Youthfulness
| Author | Andrew Root |
| ISBN | 0801098467 |
The loss or disaffiliation of young adults is a much-discussed topic in churches today. Many faith-formation programs focus on keeping the young, believing the youthful spirit will save the church. But do these programs have more to do with an obsession with youthfulness than with helping young people...
The Last Superstition: A Refutation of the New Atheism
| Author | Edward Feser |
| ISBN | 1587314517 |
"The central contention of the "New Atheism" of Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, Sam Harris, and Christopher Hitchens is that the centuries-old "war between science and religion" is now over and that religion has lost. But as Edward Feser shows in The Last Superstition, there is not, and never has...
C. S. Lewis: A Life: Eccentric Genius, Reluctant Prophet
| Author | Alister E. McGrath |
| ISBN | 1414339356 |
Fifty years after his death, C. S. Lewis continues to inspire and fascinate millions. His legacy remains varied and vast. He was a towering intellectual figure, a popular fiction author who inspired a global movie franchise around the world of Narnia, and an atheist-turned-Christian thinker.
In...
Natural Law and the Two Kingdoms: A Study in the Development of Reformed Social Thought
| Author | David VanDrunen |
| ISBN | 0802864430 |
A great read on the subject matter. Covers the historical views from the early Church and pre-Reformation up to modern times.
Sadly, it seems modern times have moved away from the historical and Reformation and even early American views.
The last two chapters are somewhat disappointing...
True Spirituality: How to Live for Jesus Moment by Moment
| Author | Francis A. Schaeffer |
| ISBN | 0842373519 |
Francis Shaeffer had been serving as a pastor for over a decade when he began to wonder if Christianity really made a difference in people's lives. True Spirituality, a twentieth-century spiritual classic, outlines the result of his effort to "start at the beginning" and re-examine his faith. The...
| Author | Jonathan Edwards |
| ISBN | 0851514855 |
Very interesting. I'm going to be thinking for a long time about three ideas from this book: 1) that we do not truly love God if we have no actual affection for him in our hearts. Dutiful obedience is not love, knowledge about the things of God is not love. Love is love. 2) Edwards' idea that true love for God...
Joy Unspeakable: Power & Renewal in the Holy Spirit
| Author | D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones |
| ISBN | 0877884412 |
This book is a must read for anyone wanting to seriously study the doctrine of the baptism in the Holy Spirit. If you want a well-rounded view of the subject, and want to learn from all sides of the debate, you cannot pass by "Joy Unspeakable". Lloyd-Jones is in a unique position to write on this topic since...
A Divine And Supernatural Light
| Author | Jonathan Edwards |
| ISBN | 1846853788 |
A SERMON Preach’d at Northampton, [Mass.], And Published at the Desire of some of the Hearers. Boston: S. Kneeland & T. Green. 1734
The early stirrings of the Great Awakening were intensified by Edwards' famous sermon A Divine and Supernatural Light, Immediately Imparted to the Soul...
| Author | Jonathan Edwards |
| ISBN | 0875525997 |
The Light that Shines in the Darkness
In the 1950s, A. W. Tozer saw the enemy within the church as the Evangelical Rationalists: those who believed that divine truth was confined to words and creeds, and if you held the right opinion on the stated propositions, you had the truth. Today there is...
Eyes That See, Ears That Hear: Perceiving Jesus in a Postmodern Context
| Author | James P. Danaher |
| ISBN | 0764814095 |
In his book, James Danaher successfully shows that a post-modern perspective, which questions the cultural, historical, and linguistic presuppositions involved in interpreting the Gospels, frees us to hear anew the culturally subversive, yet ultimately transformative message of Jesus' Good...
