In this letter Pope Francis calls all Christians and all humans to dialogue about our common home and focuses on consumerism, development, degradation, and the gospel message as viewed through creation.
The Normal Christian Life, a book by Watchman Nee that originated as a series of addresses which later became magazine articles, presents the path of faith and spiritual principles in simplicity as foundations for Christian life.
I Don't Have Enough Faith to Be an Atheist guides readers through arguments, examinations and investigations of several aspects of the Christian faith, a thought-provoking resource for both skeptics about Christianity as well as for Christians hoping to better articulate the faith.
Matthew Fox, an influential leader within the Creation Spirituality movement, in this work focuses on the Original Blessing man received from God—as contrasting with the Original Sin, the fall of man—and God's creative and spiritual energy expressed in humans.
A leader for the Human Genome Project advocates in The Language of God for theistic evolution—logically correlating faith and science and presenting evidence for belief while expressing wonder at God's creation.
J. I. Packer, in his classic work Knowing God, has greatly shaped Christian readers to know God more deeply by sharing about God and his attributes—his love, grace, majesty and wrath—and the benefits of an intimate relationship with him.
One of the most widely circulated and translated Christian titles other than the Bible itself, The Imitation is a devotional and religious classic written in the 1400s by an Augustinian monk which clarifies instructions for withdrawing from worldly vanities and seeking spiritual life.
Based on a series of Andrew Murray's sermons, this work provides a step-by-step challenge for readers to truly surrender life absolutely to God and to fully experience the fruits of the Holy Spirit and Christian liberty.
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Theologian and thinker Francis A. Shaeffer published this major book in 1976 as a reflection upon society's state of affairs while presenting the need for affirmation of a Christian ethic and Biblical morals in culture.