Christianity Today's 100 most spiritually significant books of the 20th centuryChristianity 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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The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis | ||
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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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Bonhoeffer's Cost of Discipleship (Shepherd's Notes. Christian Classics)
by Greg Ligon
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J.R.R. Tolkien Boxed Set (The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings)
by J.R.R. Tolkien
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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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Moral Man and Immoral Society: A Study of Ethics and Politics (Library of Theological Ethics)
by Reinhold Niebuhr
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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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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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Habits of the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Life
by Robert N. Bellah
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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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Transforming Mission: Paradigm Shifts in Theology of Mission (American Society of Missiology Series, No. 16)
by David Jacobus Bosch
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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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Death Comes for the Archbishop (Willa Cather Scholarly Edition)
by Willa Cather
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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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The Souls of Black Folk (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (B&N Classics Hardcover)
by W. E. B. Du Bois
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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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In a Different Voice: Psychological Theory and Women's Development
by Carol Gilligan
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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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Living in Truth: 22 Essays Published on the Occasion of the Award of the Erasmus Prize to Vaclav Havel
by Vaclav Havel
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The Moral Vision of the New Testament: Community, Cross, New Creation, A Contemporary Introduction to New Testament Ethics
by Richard B. Hays
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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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