![]() | Bible: New International Version Study Bible (Bible Niv)
Buy used from: £23.99 This translation is easy to read with helpful notes - my favourite book that I read most days.
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![]() | Journey Towards Holiness: A Way of Living for God's Nation by Alan Kreider
Buy used from: £0.97 How should we live? What ethical standards should we embrace? This book describes a way of living, which is radical and rooted in the Christian faith. Extremely challenging reading.
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![]() | The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life by Erving Goffman
Buy new: £7.11 / Used from: £4.70 Sociology is the art of stating the obvious. Genuine insights from a master of observation.
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![]() | Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Buy new: £5.92 / Used from: £0.01 Heller uses the 'theatre' of war to question modern conceptions of reason and sanity. A classic exploration of humanity alienated by bureaucracy and machine age calculation.
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![]() | Crime and Punishment (Oxford World's Classics) by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Buy used from: £0.01 Nietzsche meets Jesus Christ in this clash of moral philosophies. Dostoevsky explores the social and psychological consequences of dispensing with moral law.
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![]() | Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: 25th Anniversary Edition: An Inquiry into Values by Robert M. Pirsig
Buy new: £6.49 / Used from: £2.43 Philosophy and confessional narrative combine as Pirsig uses motorcycle maintenance as a metaphor for life and his pursuit of quality. Worth reading for a number of brilliant aphorisms.
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![]() | L' Assommoir (Penguin Classics) by Emile Zola
Buy used from: £2.97 A story about the search for happiness and the destructive effects of urban poverty and moral decadence on human life. A nuanced view of working class Paris in the nineteenth century.
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![]() | Germinal (Oxford World's Classics) by Émile Zola
Buy used from: £0.64 Anarchism, socialism, capitalism, poverty, mining, murder, sex, violence, disease, friendship, bereavement, survival, betrayal, morality, complexity...its all here. Must be read.
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![]() | The Card (Edwardian Collection) by Arnold Bennett
Humorous insight into nineteeth century Stoke-on-Trent. Edward Henry Machin dares to be different and takes on the town in a variety of escapades and mad schemes.
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![]() | The Historical Christ and the Jesus of Faith: The Incarnational Narrative as History by C. Stephen Evans
Buy new: £32.30 / Used from: £12.85 Argues that the Christian doctrine of the incarnation, is reasonable and consistent with historical evidence. It identifies the weaknesses of critical theology and affirms orthodox belief.
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![]() | The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell
Buy used from: £8.80 Through the lives of working class decorators, Tressell shows how unbridled capitalism destroys humanity and results in poorly decorated houses. Ultimately nobody wins in this kind of system.
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![]() | In Dubious Battle (Penguin Modern Classics) by John Steinbeck
Buy new: £9.74 / Used from: £4.98 Relevant to contemporary debates about direct action, Steinbeck questions the morality of certain forms of working class protest.
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![]() | Atonement: Its Meaning and Significance by Leon Morris
Buy new: £9.99 / Used from: £6.49 Why did Jesus Christ die? What was achieved through the crucifixion of the incarnate God? A important book, well written.
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![]() | The Peaceable Kingdom: A Primer in Christian Ethics by Stanley Hauerwas
Buy new: £17.95 / Used from: £3.61 Has the Western state bound church any hope of regaining or retaining integrity in the contemporary world. Hauerwas offers his view of how Christian faith can inform ethical practice.
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![]() | Truth and the Reality of God: Essay in Natural Theology by Ian S. Markham
Buy new: £38.00 / Used from: £6.26 An advocacy of theism based upon a realist defense of truth. Explores whether critical realism provides a warrant for natural theology?
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![]() | The Brothers Karamazov (Penguin Classics) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Buy new: £6.46 / Used from: £4.25 An exploration of the modern human condition. Through a range of characters the author reflects on the transcendent, subjective and institututional aspects of morality, justice and truth .
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![]() | Celebration of Discipline: The Path to Spiritual Growth by Richard Foster
Buy used from: £1.32 Christianity is presented as a way of life that is orientated to God. The book describes a range of individual and corporate disciplines that help us to focus upon God.
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![]() | The Lord of the Rings (3 Book Box set) by J.R.R. Tolkien
Buy new: £11.96 / Used from: £11.99 Favourite childhood read.
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![]() | Revelation (Tyndale New Testament commentaries) by Leon Morris
Buy used from: £1.14 If you have the patience to study hard, this is an inspirational read.
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![]() | The Politics of Jesus by John Howard Yoder
Buy new: £9.09 / Used from: £9.82 Excellent exposition that explains why Christianity ought to be engaged in politics and how the political dimensions of Jesus Christ's ministry have been overlooked.
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![]() | The Hiding Place (Hodder Christian paperbacks) by Corrie Ten Boom
Buy used from: £0.01 Inspiring story of a woman's faith.
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![]() | The Genealogy of Our Present Moral Disarray: An Essay in Comparative Philosophy (Problems in Contemporary Philosophy) by Anna Makolkin
Buy new: £69.95 Interesting and unconventional analysis of the Western philosophical tradition. Thinks through a number of key names and their moral approaches.
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![]() | Literary Theory: An Introduction by Terry Eagleton
Buy used from: £4.38 A rich trawl through the history of literary criticism, introducing the philosophies of many great thinkers.
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![]() | Orientalism: Western Conceptions of the Orient (Penguin Modern Classics) by Edward W. Said
Buy new: £7.66 / Used from: £5.06 A fantastic research methodology applied to imperial occidental constructions of the 'orient'. A vivid and captivating read.
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![]() | Truth is Stranger Than it Used to be: Biblical Faith in a Postmodern Age (Gospel & culture) by Brian Walsh
Buy used from: £25.98 Postmodern thought and evangelical Christian thinking combine and make a lot of sense. The key to the book is its narrative epistemological approach to truth. Excellent stuff and fairly easy to read.
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