If King Solomon were alive today he might say something like this: There’s no end to the number of books being published. To try to read them all will wear you out. You would have a brain crash.
What to do? Which ones to choose? Which books will help me most to become an effective ambassador for Christ? The answer is as varied as our backgrounds and personalities. Harper One has published 25 Books Every Christian Should Read to help with those questions.
During the coming weeks and years (yes, years) this web site will explore these books. How long we spend on one book or the other will be up to those who participate in this web site group study.
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In 25 Books Every Christian Should Read, Richard Foster, Dallas Willard, Phyllis Tickle, Chris Webb, and a diverse editorial board of authors and speakers have identified the most helpful and historic books for Christian discipleship and created a resource that helps us make the most of them. Including a sizable excerpt from each book, 25 Books is designed to help individual readers and small groups work through the most important books for formation in Christlikeness. From Augustine’s Confessions to Thomas Kelly’s A Testament of Devotion, this list and this resource will lead you on a journey of discipleship that few in the history of the Church have experienced.
Contents
1. On the Incarnation / St. Athanasius
2. Confessions / St. Augustine
3. The Sayings of the Desert Fathers
4. The Rule of St. Benedict / St. Benedict
5. The Divine Comedy / Dante Alighieri
6. The Cloud of Unknowing / Anonymous
7. Revelations of Divine Love (Showings) / Julian of Norwich
8. The Imitation of Christ / Thomas à Kempis (Presently reading. Click the Blog Tab.)
9. The Philokalia
10. Institutes of the Christian Religion / John Calvin
11. The Interior Castle / St. Teresa of Avila
12. Dark Night of the Soul / St. John of the Cross
13. Pensées / Blaise Pascal
14. The Pilgrim’s Progress / John Bunyan
15. The Practice of the Presence of God / Brother Lawrence
16. A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life / William Law
17. The Way of a Pilgrim / Unknown Author
18. The Brothers Karamazov / Fyodor Dostoevsky
19. Orthodoxy / G. K. Chesterton
20. The Poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins
21. The Cost of Discipleship / Dietrich Bonhoeffer
22. A Testament of Devotion / Thomas R. Kelly
23. The Seven Storey Mountain / Thomas Merton
24. Mere Christianity / C. S. Lewis
25. The Return of the Prodigal Son / Henri J. M. Nouwen
