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The Case for Orthodox Theology

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Death Comes for the Archbishop

Dorothy Day

The Long Loneliness

Annie Dillard

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

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W. E. B. Dubois

The Souls of Black Folk

T. S. Eliot

Four Quartets

Ralph Ellison

Invisible Man

Jacques Ellul

The Technological Society

Shusaku Endo

Silence

Anne Frank

The Diary of Anne Frank

Victor Frankl

Man's Search for Meaning

Sigmund Freud

Civilization and Its Discontents

The Fundamentals

Langdon Gilkey

Shantung Compound

Carol Gilligan

In a Different Voice

Graham Greene

The Power and the Glory

John Howard Griffin

Black Like Me

Gustavo Gutiérrez

A Theology of Liberation

Philip Paul Hallie

Lest Innocent Blood Be Shed

Stanley Hauerwas

A Community of Character

Václav Havel

Living in Truth

Richard Hays

The Moral Vision of the New Testament

Carl F. H. Henry

God, Revelation, and Authority (six volumes)

John R. Hersey

Hiroshima

Abraham Heschel

The Prophets

Aldous Huxley

Brave New World

William James

The Varieties of Religious Experience

Franz Kafka

The Trial

Martin Luther King, Jr.

A Testament of Hope

Thomas S. Kuhn

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

Harper Lee

To Kill a Mockingbird

Aldo Leopold

A Sand County Almanac

C. S. Lewis

The Chronicles of Narnia
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J. Gresham Machen

Christianity and Liberalism

Alasdair C. MacIntyre

After Virtue

Malcolm X and Alex Haley

The Autobiography of Malcolm X

George M. Marsden

Fundamentalism and American Culture

FranÇois Mauriac

Viper's Tangle

Jürgen Moltmann

The Crucified God

Richard John Neuhaus

The Naked Public Square

Lesslie Newbigin

The Gospel in a Pluralist Society

Reinhold Niebuhr

The Nature and Destiny of Man (two volumes)

H. Richard Niebuhr

Christ and Culture

Kathleen Norris

The Cloister Walk

Henri J. M. Nouwen

The Wounded Healer

Anders Nygren

Agape and Eros

Elizabeth O'Connor

Journey Inward, Journey Outward

Flannery O'Connor

A Good Man is Hard to Find and Other Stories

Rudolf Otto

The Idea of the Holy

J. I. Packer

Knowing God

Alan Paton

Cry, the Beloved Country

Jaroslav Pelikan

Jesus Through the Centuries

Josef Pieper

The Four Cardinal Virtues

Michael Polanyi

Personal Knowledge

Chaim Potok

The Chosen

Walter Rauschenbusch

Christianity and the Social Crisis

Dorothy L. Sayers

The Mind of the Maker

Albert Schweitzer

The Quest of the Historical Jesus

Nevil Shute

On the Beach

Ronald J. Sider

Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

The Gulag Archipelago and One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

John R. W. Stott

Basic Christianity

Paul Tournier

The Meaning of Persons

A. W. Tozer

The Pursuit of God

Barbara Tuchman

The Guns of August

Evelyn Underhill

Mysticism

Miroslav Volf

Exclusion and Embrace

Gerhard von Rad

Old Testament Theology

Andrew F. Walls

The Missionary Movement in Christian History

Max Weber

The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism

Simone Weil

Waiting for God

Elie Wiesel

Night

Charles Williams

Descent into Hell

Walter Wink

Engaging the Powers

Philip Yancey

The Jesus I Never Knew

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