| If you want to be changed, read a good book. Or so said A. W. Tozer: "The things you read will fashion you by slowly conditioning your mind." Of the millions of books published this century, only a few hundred have shaped people in extraordinary ways. Here are some of those—100 books that had a significant effect on Christians this century. Christianity Today asked more than 100 of its contributors and church leaders to nominate the ten best religious books of the twentieth century. By best books, they meant those that not only were important when first published, but also have enduring significance for the Christian faith and church. They included books which do not always prompt agreement, but which are important for Christians to read and contend with. A few "period" pieces also made the list of 90. By far, C. S. Lewis was the most popular author and Mere Christianity the book nominated most often. | ||
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| Mere Christianity
by C. S. Lewis $10.07 "The best case for the essentials of orthodox Christianity in print." | The Cost of Discipleship
by Dietrich Bonhoeffer $10.55 "Leaves you wondering why you ever thought complacency or compromise in the Christian life was an option." | CHURCH DOGMATICS
by KARL BARTH $19.46 "Opened a new era in theology in which the Bible, Christ, and saving grace were taken seriously once more." |
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| The Lord of the Rings
by J.R.R. Tolkien $46.80 | The Politics of Jesus
by John Howard Yoder $14.96 "Some 30 years after this book was published, the church has found itself culturally in a more marginal position, and this b... | Orthodoxy
by G. K. Chesterton $10.16 "A rhetorically inventive exposition of the coherence of Christian truth." |
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| The Seven Storey Mountain
by Thomas Merton $10.40 "A painfully candid story of one Christian soul's walk with grace and struggle, it has become the mark against which all othe... | Celebration of Discipline: The Path to Spir...
by Richard J. Foster $16.31 "After Foster finishes each spiritual discipline, you not only know what it is, why it's important, and how to do it—you want ... | MY UTMOST FOR HIS HIGHEST - UPDATED
by OSWALD CHAMBERS "A treasury of daily devotional readings that has fed the souls of millions of Christians in the twentieth century. Future g... |
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Christianity Today Books of the Century (1-54)
