Christianity Today's 100 most spiritually significant books of the 20th century

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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, we meant those that not only were important when first published, but also have enduring significance for the Christian faith and church. We have included books which do not always prompt agreement, but which are important for evangelical 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. Indeed, we could have included even more Lewis works, but finally we had to say: "Enough is enough; give some other authors a chance."

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    Mere Christianity
    by C.S. Lewis

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    The Chronicles of Narnia
    by C.S. Lewis

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    The Politics of Jesus
    by John Howard Yoder

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    Orthodoxy (Dodo Press)
    by G. K. Chesterton

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    The Seven Storey Mountain
    by Thomas Merton

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    Celebration of Discipline
    by Richard J. Foster

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    My Utmost for His Highest
    by Incorporated Barbour Publishing

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    Things Fall Apart
    by Chinua Achebe

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    Big Book Awakening - 12 Step Guide Book
    by Awakening

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    Here I Stand: A Life of Martin Luther
    by Roland H. Bainton

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  13. 15.
    The Epistle to the Romans (Galaxy Books)
    by Karl Barth

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    The Denial of Death
    by Ernest Becker

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    The Diary of a Country Priest: A Novel
    by Georges Bernanos

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    Letter and Papers from Prison
    by Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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    The Prophetic Imagination
    by Walter Brueggemann

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    Truth As Encounter
    by H. E. Brunner

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    The Plague
    by Albert Camus

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    The Case for Orthodox Theology
    by Edward J. Carnell

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    The Long Loneliness
    by Dorothy Day

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    Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
    by Annie Dillard

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    Documents of Vatican II
    by Austin P. Flannery

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    Four Quartets
    by T. S. Eliot

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    Invisible Man: A Novel
    by Ralph Ellison

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    The Technological Society
    by Jacques Ellul

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    The Diary of Anne Frank: The Revised Critical Edition
    by Netherlands Institute For War Documentation

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    Man's Search for Meaning
    by Viktor E. Frankl

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    Civilization and Its Discontents
    by Sigmund Freud

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    Shantung Compound: The Story of Men and Women Under Pressure
    by Langdon Gilkey

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    Graham Greene's the Power and the Glory
    by Graham Greene

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    Black Like Me
    by John Howard Griffin

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    A Theology of Liberation: History, Politics and Salvation
    by Gustavo Gutierrez

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    Lest Innocent Blood Be Shed
    by Philip P. Hallie

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    A Community of Character
    by Stanley Hauerwas

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    God, Revelation and Authority
    by Carl Ferdinand Howard Henry

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    Hiroshima (Vintage)
    by John Hersey

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    The Prophets (Perennial Classics)
    by Abraham J. Heschel

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    Brave New World
    by Aldous Huxley

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    The Varieties of Religious Experience
    by William James

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    The Trial
    by Franz Kafka

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Comments

crimeandpunishment
Steinbach

Untitled — 1 year ago

wrong “Hiroshima”
fixed…


djsiah
New Jersey

... — 2 years ago

Who in the world came up with this list?!