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Postcards from Babylon: The Church In American Exile
Brian Zahnd Spello Press, 2019 978-0578213774 https://www.amazon.com/dp/057821377X The original gospel proclamation that the Lord of the nations was a crucified Galilean raised from the dead and that salvation was found in vowing allegiance to Jesus of Nazareth unleashed a shock wave that turned the Roman Empire upside…
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The Gospel in Brief: The Life of Jesus (Harper Perennial Modern Thought)
Leo Tolstoy Harper Perennial, 2011 978-0061993459 https://www.amazon.com/dp/006199345X The most celebrated novelist of all time, the author of Anna Karenina and War and Peace, retells "the greatest story ever told," integrating the four Gospels into a single twelve-chapter narrative of the life of Jesus. Based on his study…
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A Barfield Reader: Selections from the Writings of Owen Barfield
Owen Barfield Wesleyan University Press, 1999 978-0819563613 https://www.amazon.com/dp/0819563617/ A representative selection from the major writings of the man C. S. Lewis called "the wisest and best of my unofficial teachers." Owen Barfield was one of the most original and stimulating thinkers of the twentieth century,…
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Saving the Appearances: A Study in Idolatry
Owen Barfield Wesleyan University Press, 1988 978-0819562050 https://www.amazon.com/dp/081956205X Barfield draws on sources from mythology, philosophy, history, literature, theology, and science to chronicle the evolution of human thought from Moses and Aristotle to Galileo and Keats. Saving the Appearances is about the…
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Poetic Diction: A Study in Meaning
Owen Barfield Open Road Media, 2024 ASIN: B0CR8ZSY98 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CR8ZSY98 The philosophical treatise on aesthetics and language that inspired T. S. Eliot, C. S. Lewis, and many others. In Poetic Diction, Owen Barfield sought to understand why certain groups of words were given the designation of “poetry,”…
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C. S. Lewis: Essay Collection and Other Short Pieces
C. S. Lewis HarperCollins, 2000 978-0006281573 https://www.amazon.com/dp/0006281575 "This is an extensive collection of short essays and other pieces by C. S. Lewis that have been brought together in one volume for the first time. As well as his many books, letters, and poems, Lewis also wrote a great number of essays and…
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Iustitia Dei
Iustitia Dei: A History of the Christian Doctrine of Justification 4th Edition4th Edition Alistair E. McGrath https://www.amazon.com/dp/B081HGHTS2/?coliid=I12YJE9I1Y93BC&colid=ANUEQZXCL1S0&psc=0&ref_=list_c_wl_lv_ov_lig_dp_it
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Prepare the way of the Lord
Prepare the Way of the Lord: An Introduction to the Old Testament Andrew E. Steinman https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00F56NXSA/?coliid=I14A3PL26J4OIC&colid=28EGGMXVWQD2I&psc=0&ref_=list_c_wl_lv_ov_lig_dp_it
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Robert McAfee Brown: Is Faith Obsolete?
https://www.amazon.com/faith-obsolete-Robert-McAfee-Brown/dp/0664207154/ref=sr_1_37 Amazon blurb: The book is an exploration of faith for people in an era of change. Contents include: 1. The Decline and Fall of Faith; or, Clearing Away the Underbrush (Faith and Theology) 2. Definitions Old and New; or, Clarifying Some…
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Robert McAfee Brown: Frontiers for the church
https://www.amazon.com/Frontiers-Church-Today-Robert-McAfee/dp/0195017005/ref=sr_1_36 Amazon blurb: none
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Robert McAfee Brown: The Pseudonyms of God
https://www.amazon.com/Pseudonyms-God-Robert-McAfee-Brown/dp/0664209300/ref=sr_1_33 Amazon blurb: none
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Robert McAfee Brown: The ecumenical revolution: An interpretation of the Catholic-Protestant dialogu
https://www.amazon.com/ecumenical-revolution-interpretation-Catholic-Protestant-dialogue/dp/0223976601/ref=sr_1_32 Amazon blurb: none
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Robert McAfee Brown: Making Peace in the Global Village
https://www.amazon.com/Making-Global-Village-Robert-McAfee/dp/0664243436/ref=sr_1_30 Amazon blurb: Well-known author Robert McAfee Brown's compelling, hard-hitting book activates the Christian conscience in support of peacemaking. An excellent group study resource, Making Peace in the Global Village is for everyone serious…
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Robert McAfee Brown: Speaking of Christianity: Practical Compassion, Social Justice, and Other Wonde
https://www.amazon.com/Speaking-Christianity-Practical-Compassion-Justice/dp/0664257429/ref=sr_1_27 Amazon blurb: Renowned theologian Robert McAfee Brown believes that Christianity cannot be fenced off or separated from the world, but must always be viewed in relation to other realms of society. Making religious and moral…
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Robert McAfee Brown: Reclaiming the Bible: Words for the Nineties
https://www.amazon.com/Reclaiming-Bible-Robert-McAfee-Brown/dp/0664255531/ref=sr_1_24 Amazon blurb: In this series of messages based on Scripture, Robert McAfee Brown demonstrates the vital applications of the Bible for our own times. Brown first deals with the great words of faith such as love, grace, and reconciliation.…
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Robert McAfee Brown: The Significance of the Church
https://www.amazon.com/Significance-Church-robert-brown/dp/B000FM9ND8/ref=sr_1_22 Amazon blurb: none
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Robert McAfee Brown: Religion and Violence, Second Edition
https://www.amazon.com/Religion-Violence-Robert-McAfee-Brown/dp/066424078X/ref=sr_1_18 Amazon blurb: Robert McAfee Brown's Religion and Violence is a comprehensive introduction to the ethical and moral questions that abound at the intersection of violence and religion. Brown discusses such important issues as nuclear war,…
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Robert McAfee Brown: Creative Dislocation - The Movement of Grace. Journeys in Faith. by Robert Arno
https://www.amazon.com/Robert-McAfee-Brown-Creative-Dislocation/dp/B001UQ26KK/ref=sr_1_15 Amazon blurb: none
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Robert McAfee Brown: Saying Yes and Saying No: On Rendering to God and Caesar
https://www.amazon.com/Saying-Yes-No-Rendering-Caesar/dp/0664246958/ref=sr_1_14 Amazon blurb: In Saying Yes and No: On Rendering God to Caesar, Robert McAfee Brown confronts the delimma that exists when offical government policies seem to clash with ideas about God's kingdom of peace and justice. Discussion questions at…
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Robert McAfee Brown: Theology in a New Key: Responding to Liberation Themes
https://www.amazon.com/Theology-New-Key-Responding-Liberation/dp/0664242049/ref=sr_1_13 Amazon blurb: "I do not think there are any issues on the theological and human scene more important than the ones liberation theologians are raising," says Robert McAfee Brown. In this book Brown explores how we can respond to…
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Robert MvAfee Brown: Religion and violence;: A primer for white Americans
https://www.amazon.com/Religion-violence-primer-white-Americans/dp/0664249779/ref=sr_1_12 Amazon blurb: Religion and violence;: A primer for white Americans. White softcover.
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Robert McAfee Brown: Persuade Us to Rejoice: The Liberating Power of Fiction
https://www.amazon.com/Persuade-Us-Rejoice-Liberating-Fiction/dp/0664253814/ref=sr_1_11 Amazon blurb: Studying such literary figures as Frederick Buechner, Albert Camus, George Dennison, Ursula Le Guin, C. S. Lewis, Alan Paton, Ignazio Silone, Alice Walker, Elie Wiesel, and Charles Williams, Robert McAfee Brown illustrates…
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Robert McAfee Brown: Elie Wiesel: Messenger to All Humanity, Revised Edition
https://www.amazon.com/Elie-Wiesel-Messenger-Humanity-Revised/dp/0268009201/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0 Amazon blurb: Upon presenting the 1986 Nobel Prize for Peace to Elie Wiesel, Egil Aarvick, chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Prize Committee, hailed him as "a messenger to mankind--not with a message of hate and revenge but with…
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Robert McAfee Brown: The Spirit of Protestantism
https://www.amazon.com/Spirit-Protestantism-Robert-M-Brown/dp/B00005WXN5/ref=sr_1_8 Amazon blurb: New York Oxford University Press, 1961. Stated 3rd printing April 1963. Hardcover in Good+ condition, prior owner ink on ffep, else fine. No other writing, square binding, scrapes to corners/spine. No jacket. This book has…
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Robert McAfee Brown: Reflections over the Long Haul: A Memoir
https://www.amazon.com/Reflections-over-Long-Haul-Memoir/dp/0664224040/ref=sr_1_7 Amazon blurb: Robert McAfee Brown was one of the greatest public theologians of his day. He was a pacifist who enlisted as a chaplain in World War II and who later aligned himself with his students to resist the draft and protest the war…
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Robert McAfee Brown: Gustavo Gutierrez: An Introduction to Liberation Theology
https://www.amazon.com/Gustavo-Gutierrez-Introduction-Liberation-Theology/dp/1620329026/ref=sr_1_6 Amazon blurb: Here is a definitive introduction to liberation theology through the life and work of its most significant proponent, Gustavo Gutierrez. Robert McAfee Brown draws extensively on Gutierrez's own writings (some…
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Robert McAfee Brown: Spirituality and Liberation: Overcoming the Great Fallacy
https://www.amazon.com/Spirituality-Liberation-Overcoming-Great-Fallacy/dp/0664250025/ref=sr_1_5 Amazon blurb: In Spirituality and Liberation, foremost theologian Robert McAfee Brown confronts a dilemma that has plagued Christians for centuries: the separation between the spiritual and the temporal, between prayer and…
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Robert McAfee Brown: The Bible Speaks to You
https://www.amazon.com/Bible-Speaks-Robert-McAfee-Brown/dp/0664245978/ref=sr_1_4 Amazon blurb: The Bible Speaks to You is for those who want to know more about the Bible and how studying the Bible can change their lives. Arranged topically as a series of answers to questions--including, where did the Bible come from? what…
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Robert McAfee Brown: Liberation Theology: An Introductory Guide
https://www.amazon.com/Liberation-Theology-Robert-McAfee-Brown/dp/0664254241/ref=sr_1_3 Amazon blurb: In a manner that is vivid and lively, Robert McAfee Brown explains and illuminates liberation theology for North American readers who may have no previous knowledge of this dynamic Christian movement. Growing out of the…
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Robert McAfee Brown: Spiritual & Prophetic Writings (Modern Spiritual Masters)
https://www.amazon.com/Robert-McAfee-Brown-Spiritual-Prophetic/dp/1626980071/ref=sr_1_2 Amazon blurb: Robert McAfee Brown (1920-2001), an American Presbyterian, was a master theologian, a spiritual guide, and an engaged activist, whose long career reflected many of the critical movements and concerns of the 20th century.…
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Robert McAfee Brown: Unexpected News: Reading the Bible with Third World Eyes
https://www.amazon.com/Unexpected-News-Reading-Bible-Third/dp/0664245528/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0 Amazon blurb: In Unexpected News, Robert McAfee Brown looks at ten biblical texts through a new lens. Brown's analysis is concerned with how our reading of the Bible is dependent on our experiences and worldview. Brown sets out to…
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St. Hereticus (Robert McAfee Brown) The Collected Writings of St. Hereticus and The Hereticus Papers
https://www.amazon.com/collected-Writings-St-Hereticus/dp/0664249167/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0 Amazon blurb: * Still posing as ""editor"", the gifted theologian and teacher at Stanford University presents a collection of pieces previously printed in Christianity and Crisis and other magazines, including two on ""Theological…
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An Ignatian Spirituality Reader
George W. Traub, SJ (editor) Loyola Press, 2008 978-0829427233 https://www.amazon.com/dp/0829427236 An Ignatian Spirituality Reader is a collection of the finest short essays on Ignatian spirituality and its founder, Ignatius Loyola. These 18 essays on Ignatian spirituality, compiled by George W. Traub, SJ, are written by…
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Between God and Man: An Interpretation of Judaism
Abraham Joshua Heschel Free Press, 1997 978-0684833316 https://www.amazon.com/dp/068483331X Abraham Heschel's classic work, originally published in 1965, now with a new Introduction by noted Jewish theologian David Hartman, examines questions of faith, divinity, self-sufficiency, and other basic tenets of Judaism.
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Peter DeHaan: Visiting Churches Series
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08G884STN?binding=paperback&qid=1722457361&sr=8-1&ref=dbs_dp_rwt_sb_pc_tpbk This series is essential light reading that teaches one a great deal about the first impression your church makes to a visitor. I hope it turn you introspective about your own church's first impression. Note the author…
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Leo Tolstoy works
You have many of Leo Tolstoy's works in audio only. Please get them in ebook format. This is a list of Tolstoy works I'd like to see you get in ebook format (ones with (A) are available in audio only). These are all public domain and most have many editions available. * The Death of Ivan Ilyich (A) * A Confession (A) * The…
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OT quotations list
Old Testament Quotations in the New Testament: A Complete Survey https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1597520403/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?ie=UTF8&dib_tag=se&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.qaDXtGqGFht8CquTlbxY6LkCgwS6iSW7BSIL8VjFdhU.TKK8zr4y6_om8gMxwAWLbZV-00nwBj0iF_n-t5gfEzk&qid=1722446920&sr=8-1
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Discipleship in Community: A Theological Vision for the Future
The Stone-Campbell restoration plea and Christian discipleship are best conceived and receive their proper emphasis when one starts with the one God who is Father, Son, and Holy Spirit” (Mark Powell, John Mark Hicks, and Greg McKinzie)
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The Bible Now
Richard Elliot Friedman & Shawna Dolansky Oxford University Press, 2011 978-0195311631 https://www.amazon.com/dp/0195311639/ For millennia, people have used the Bible as a touchstone on important social and political questions, and rightly so. But many use the Bible simply as a weapon to wield against opponents in a…
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The Law, The Prophets, and The Writings: Studies in Evangelical Old Testament Hermeneutics in Honor
Andrew M. King, Joshua M. Philpot & William R. Osborne, editors B&H Academic, 2021 978-1535935937 https://www.amazon.com/dp/1535935936 The Old Testament is no ordinary text; it is a revelation of God’s will, character, purpose, and plan, inspired by the Spirit of God. That same Spirit continues to work within God’s people…
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Old Testament Theology: A Thematic Approach
Robin Routledge IVP Academic, 2012 978-0830839926 https://www.amazon.com/dp/0830839925 There are several excellent Old Testament theologies available today, but they tend to be large and daunting for beginning students and others who are hard-pressed for time. Robin Routledge's Old Testament Theology is gauged to meet the…
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Why the Bible Began: An Alternative History of Scripture and its Origins
Jacob L. Wright Cambridge University Press, 2023 978-1108490931 https://www.amazon.com/dp/110849093X Why did no other ancient society produce something like the Bible? That a tiny, out of the way community could have created a literary corpus so determinative for peoples across the globe seems improbable. For Jacob Wright,…
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The Making of the Bible: From the First Fragments to Sacred Scripture
Konrad Schmid & Jens Schröter; translated by Peter Lewis Belknap Press (Harvard University Press), 2023 978-0674293922 https://www.amazon.com/dp/0674293924 In this revelatory account of the making of the foundational text of western civilization, a world-renowned scholar of the Hebrew scriptures joins a noted authority on…
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The Exodus: How it Happened and Why It Matters
Richard Elliott Friedman HarperOne, 2017 978-0062565242 https://www.amazon.com/dp/0062565249 Discover the real history of the Exodus and why it matters. Biblical scholars, Egyptologists, archaeologists, historians, literary scholars, anthropologists, and filmmakers are drawn to it. Unable to find physical evidence until…
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A History of the Bible: The Book and Its Faiths
John Barton Penguin Books, 2020 978-0143111207 https://www.amazon.com/dp/0143111205 A literary history of our most influential book of all time, by an Oxford scholar and Anglican priest In our culture, the Bible is monolithic: It is a collection of books that has been unchanged and unchallenged since the earliest days of…
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Created Equal: How the Bible Broke with Ancient Political Thought
Joshua A. Berman Oxford University Press, 2011 978-0199832408 https://www.amazon.com/dp/0199832404 In Created Equal, Joshua Berman engages the text of the Hebrew Bible from a novel perspective, considering it as a document of social and political thought. He proposes that the Pentateuch can be read as the earliest…
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The Book of J
Harold Bloom Grove Press, 2004 978-0802141910 https://www.amazon.com/dp/0802141919 J is the title that scholars ascribe to the nameless writer they believe is responsible for the text, written between 950 and 900 BCE, on which Genesis, Exodus and Numbers is based. In The Book of J, Bloom and Rosenberg draw the J text out…
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Who Wrote the Bible?
Richard Elliott Friedman Simon & Schuster, 2019 978-1501192401 https://www.amazon.com/dp/150119240X A much anticipated reissue of Who Wrote the Bible?—the contemporary classic the New York Times Book Review called “a thought-provoking [and] perceptive guide” that identifies the individual writers of the Pentateuch and…
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The Disappearance of God: A Divine Mystery
Richard Elliott Friedman Little, Brown and Company, 1995 978-0316294348 https://www.amazon.com/dp/0316294349 Friedman probes a chain of mysteries that concern the presence or absence of God, including the connection between Nietzsche and Dostoevsky who each independently developed the idea of the death of God.
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The Hidden Face of God
Richard Elliott Friedman HarperOne, 1996 978-0060622589 https://www.amazon.com/dp/006062258X/ Bestselling author Richard Elliott Friedman, whose Who Wrote the Bible? was an intriguing took at the origins of the Bible, takes on another momentous theme for the third millennium "to point the way toward a possible final…