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Include books by the same authorHow Jesus Became God: The Exaltation of a Jewish Preacher from Galilee
Bart D. Ehrman · 416 pages
New York Times bestselling author and Bible expert Bart Ehrman reveals how Jesus’s divinity became dogma in the first few centuries of the early church. The claim at the heart of the Christian faith is that Jesus of Nazareth was, and is, God. But this is not what the original disciples believed during Jesus’s lifetime—and it is not what Jesus claimed about himself. How Jesus Became God tells th
The New Evidence That Demands A Verdict: Evidence I & II: Fully Updated in One Volume To Answer Questions Challenging Christians in the 21st Century
Josh McDowell · 760 pages
Is the Bible historically reliable? Is there credible evidence of Chrst's claim to be God? Will Christianity stand up before 21st century critics? Christians today face growing challenges to show that their faith is both relevant and credible. Josh McDowell's New Evidence That Demands a Verdict combines the two original best-selling volumes into one, maintaining their classic defense of the faith,
A History of God: The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
Karen Armstrong · 460 pages
As soon as they became recognizably human, men and women - in their hunger to understand their own presence on earth and the mysteries within and around them - began to worship gods. Karen Armstrong's masterly and illuminating book explores the ways in which the idea and experience of God evolved among the monotheists - Jews, Christians and Muslims. Weaving a multicolored fabric of historical, ph
Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy
Eric Metaxas · 615 pages
From the New York Times bestselling author of Amazing Grace, a groundbreaking biography of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, one of the greatest heroes of the twentieth century, the man who stood up to Hitler. A definitive, deeply moving narrative, Bonhoeffer is a story of moral courage in the face of the monstrous evil that was Nazism. After discovering the fire of true faith in a Harlem church, Bonhoef
The Evolution of God
Robert Wright · 567 pages
In this sweeping narrative that takes us from the Stone Age to the Information Age, Robert Wright unveils a hidden pattern that the great monotheistic faiths have followed as they have evolved. Through the prisms of archaeology, theology, and evolutionary psychology, Wright's findings overturn basic assumptions about Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, and are sure to cause controversy. He explains
The Everlasting Man
G.K. Chesterton · 268 pages
The Everlasting Man is inspired by H. G. Wells’ The Outline of History, which explains the history of mankind and religion as solely a product of natural selection and other material causes. In contrast, G. K. Chesterton presents the case for Christianity throughout history, by illustrating firstly, the uniqueness of man amongst the animals, and secondly, the uniqueness of Christ and the Church am
Twenty Three Years: A Study of the Prophetic Career of Mohammad
Ali Dashti, `ly dshty · 228 pages
No Man Knows My History: The Life of Joseph Smith
Fawn M. Brodie · 536 pages
The Cross and the Lynching Tree
James H. Cone · 213 pages
Examines the symbols of the cross and the lynching tree in African americans daily life, spiritual life and history.
The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind
Mark A. Noll · 289 pages
"The scandal of the evangelical mind is that there is not much of an evangelical mind." So begins this award-winning intellectual history and critique of the evangelical movement by one of evangelicalism's most respected historians. Unsparing in his judgment, Mark Noll ask why the largest single group of religious Americans -- who enjoy increasing wealth, status, and political influence -- have co
History of Joseph Smith by His Mother, Lucy Mack Smith
Lucy Mack Smith, Preston Nibley
The Case for Christ: A Journalist's Personal Investigation of the Evidence of Jesus
Lee Strobel · 320 pages
**Is there credible proof that Jesus of Nazareth really is the Son of God? In *The Case for Christ*, Lee Strobel, former legal editor of the *Chicago Tribune* and *New York Times* bestselling author, retraces his own spiritual journey from atheism to faith and builds a captivating case for Christ's divinity.** In this revised and updated edition of *The Case for Christ*, Strobel cross-examines a
The Orthodox Church
Kallistos Ware · 368 pages
This is a modern classic about the history, doctrine, and sacraments of the Orthodox Church. Its updated version is a carefully nuanced book that is written for the general reader. An Oxford scholar, Ware is likely the most distinguished and knowledgeable living authority on the Orthodox Church.
Who Wrote the New Testament? The Making of the Christian Myth
Burton L. Mack · 336 pages
god is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
Christopher Hitchens · 307 pages
In the tradition of Bertrand Russell's Why I Am Not a Christian and Sam Harris's recent bestseller, The End of Faith, Christopher Hitchens makes the ultimate case against religion. With a close and erudite reading of the major religious texts, he documents the ways in which religion is a man-made wish, a cause of dangerous sexual repression, and a distortion of our origins in the cosmos. With eloq
Jonathan Edwards
George M. Marsden · 640 pages
"Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758) is a towering figure in American history. A controversial theologian and the author of the famous sermon Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God, he ignited the momentous Great Awakening of the eighteenth century." "In this biography, Jonathan Edwards emerges as both a great American and a brilliant Christian. George M. Marsden evokes the world of colonial New England in
Doctrine and Covenants
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Joseph Smith Jr. · 1,103 pages
Jesus and the Lost Goddess: The Secret Teachings of the Original Christians
Tim Freke, Peter Gandy · 336 pages
Occidental Mythology
Joseph Campbell · 576 pages
Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth
Reza Aslan · 336 pages
Two thousand years ago, an itinerant Jewish preacher walked across the Galilee gathering followers to establish the "Kingdom of God." He was tortured and executed as a state criminal. Within decades, his followers would call him God. Sifting through centuries of mythmaking, Reza Aslan sheds new light on one of history's most influential and enigmatic characters by examining Jesus through the lens
Food of the Gods: The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge
Terence McKenna · 323 pages
When God Was a Woman
Merlin Stone · 265 pages
Here, archaeologically documented is the story of the religion of the Goddess. Known by many names, she reigned supreme in the Near and Middle East. How did the change in women's roles come about? By documenting the wholesale rewriting of myth and religious dogmans, Stone details an ancient conspiracy that laid the foundation for one of culture's greatest shams--the legend of Adam and fallen Eve.
The Twilight of Atheism: The Rise and Fall of Disbelief in the Modern World
Alister E. McGrath · 320 pages