In his quintessential work and French bestseller, visionary theologian and biologist Pierre Teilhard de Chardin discusses the evolution of living organisms from inorganic matter—and argues that humanity, too, is also evolving towards an "omega point."
Yancey coins the term "scandal of grace" in his best-known book What's So Amazing About Grace?—he shares about grace at the street level and how Christians should show more of it, as grace is enough to cover even the most horrific sins of mankind.
Shaeffer's 1981 manifesto was meant to be a Christian response to The Communist Manifesto of 1848 and the Humanist Manifesto, and literally calls Christians to be the salt of culture and history-makers by returning to faith in Jesus Christ and the Western Judeo-Christian values.
C. S. Lewis in his 1940 classic The Problem of Pain attempts to reconcile God's goodness and power with the reality of pain, suffering and evil in the world—tackling human sinfulness, animal suffering and the existence of hell—and rejecting these as reasons for disbelief in God.
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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.
God in the Dock is comprised of Lewis' essays posthumously collected addressing theology, ethis, religion, spirituality and thought and expressing his profoundly Christian observations and insights as one of the greatest Christian thinkers of our time.
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.
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.
Martin Luther's writing in the 500 years since the Reformation has influenced far reaching spheres across Christianity, religion, democracies, economies and societies—and as he studied Galatians, as well as Romans, Hebrew, and Psalms, he developed the doctrine of justification by faith alone, by ...