Christian Literature category: 2036 books
The Inklings of Oxford
C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, and Their Friends
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2009
Oxford’s fabled streets echo with the names of such key figures in English history as Edmund Halley, John Wycliffe, and John and Charles Wesley. Of more recent times are those of C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, and the other members of the renowned literary circle to which they belonged, the Inklings....
Transcendent Love
Dostoevsky and the Search for a Global Ethic
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2016
In Transcendent Love: Dostoevsky and the Search for a Global Ethic, Leonard G. Friesen ranges widely across Dostoevsky's stories, novels, journalism, notebooks, and correspondence to demonstrate how Dostoevsky engaged with ethical issues in his times and how those same issues continue to be relevant...
The Power of the Ring
The Spiritual Vision Behind the Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2012
Digging deep into J. R. R. Tolkien’s spiritual biography—his religious scholarship and his love of both Christian and pagan myth—Stratford Caldecott offers a critical study of how the acclaimed author effectively created a vivid Middle Earth using the familiar rites and ceremonies of human history....
Touched by a Vampire
Discovering the Hidden Messages in the Twilight Saga
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
**Examine the Twilight Saga series through a Biblical lens. **
People around the world are asking the same question, enraptured with Edward and Bella’s forbidden romance in the Twilight Saga, a four-book serial phenomenon written by Stephenie Meyer. The bestsellers tell the story of a regular...
by Thomas a Kempis
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2005
Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves—and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives—and destroyed them.
Now, Penguin...
by Léon Tolstoï, Ely Halpérine-Kaminsky (traducteur)
Language: French
Release Date: July 4, 2016
Language: French
Release Date: July 4, 2016
De tous temps, et dans toutes les sociétés humaines, il est des périodes où la religion commence d’abord à s’écarter de son principe fondamental ; puis, en déviant de plus en plus, elle perd complètement sa signification originelle, et finalement se fige dans des formes rigides. Dès lors, son action sur les hommes diminue progressivement.
by Souraya Christine
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
When is Strong Strong Enough gives a riveting account of the life events of author, Souraya Christine. It details Souraya's bad decisions, wild ways, and subsequent recklessness as she learned to cope with her tragedies, process pain, and ultimately forgive and love herself. She is still a work in...
by Thomas Merton
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 1970
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 1970
The Wisdom of the Desert was one of Thomas Merton's favorites among his own books—surely because he had hoped to spend his last years as a hermit.
The personal tones of the translations, the blend of reverence and humor so characteristic of him, show how deeply Merton identified with the...
Till We Have Faces
A Myth Retold
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2017
A repackaged edition of the revered author’s retelling of the myth of Cupid and Psyche—what he and many others regard as his best novel.
C. S. Lewis—the great British writer, scholar, lay theologian, broadcaster, Christian apologist, and bestselling author of Mere Christianity, The Screwtape...
Confessions of St. Augustine
Spiritual Meditations and Divine Insights
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
One of the most valued books in Christian literature, St. Augustine of Hippo's Confessions are an intensely revealing picture of the saint's difficult search for the truth. Translated by Bishop Pusey.
Paved with Good Intentions
A Demon’s Road Map to Your Soul
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2009
Temptation and Deception Made Easy
The demon Wormwood first became famous through his correspondence with his uncle Screwtape, published in The Screwtape Letters. We are now privileged to peruse his field notebook from that demonic training session, complete with scribbles, notes, and excerpts...
by Athanasius
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2014
"On the Incarnation" is a classic in Christian literature. Before reaching the age of 20, Athanasius wrote this treatise affirming and explaining that Jesus was both God and Man.
He answers perennial which are often asked by Christians ourselves, by Muslims, and increasingly by atheists...
Susanna Wesley
The Complete Writings
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 1997
Susanna Wesley, long celebrated in Methodist mythology as mother of the movement's founders, now takes place as a practical theologian in her own right. This collection of her letters, spiritual diary, and longer treatises (only one of which was published in her lifetime) shows her to be more than...
The Word in the World
Evangelical Writing, Publishing, and Reading in America, 1789-1880
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2005
The recent success of the Left Behind book series, which sold over 50 million books, points to an enormous readership of evangelical Christian literature that has not gone unnoticed by the mainstream publishing world. But this is not a recent phenomenon; the evangelical publishing community has been...