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Os Quatro Amores
de C. S. Lewis
7,985 membros
45 resenhas
4
Global Rank 2
9 Members
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Explicações
aulsmith: My favorite Lewis book.
2
The Hiding Place
de Corrie ten Boom
10,111 membros
144 resenhas
½ 4.4
Global Rank 9
6 Members
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3
The Seven Storey Mountain
de Thomas Merton
4,644 membros
55 resenhas
3.9
Global Rank 55
Member
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4
Through the Narrow Gate
de Karen Armstrong
752 membros
11 resenhas
4.1
Global Rank 57
Member
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Explicações
aulsmith: Definitely contributed to my leaving the fold.
5
Here I Stand: A Life of Martin Luther
de Roland Bainton
3,682 membros
19 resenhas
4.2
Global Rank 31
3 Members
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6
The Unlikely Disciple: A Sinner's Semester at America's Holiest University
de Kevin Roose
1,169 membros
82 resenhas
4.1
Global Rank 59
Member
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7
Go Tell It on the Mountain
de James Baldwin
5,747 membros
112 resenhas
3.9
Global Rank 41
2 Members
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Explicações
aulsmith: I think this is Baldwin's plea to be accepted by the church he grew up in.
8
That Hideous Strength
de C. S. Lewis
8,267 membros
88 resenhas
3.8
Global Rank 10
8 Members
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Explicações
aulsmith: Read and liked
9
The New Oxford Annotated Bible with Apocrypha: New Revised Standard Version
de Michael D. Coogan
2,626 membros
6 resenhas
½ 4.3
Global Rank 48
2 Members
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Explicações
aulsmith: Best study Bible I ever had.
10
Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith
de Jon Krakauer
8,855 membros
223 resenhas
3.9
Global Rank 33
3 Members
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11
Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality
de John Boswell
1,075 membros
10 resenhas
½ 4.4
Global Rank 149
Member
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Explicações
aulsmith: I know that some of the work is in dispute, but I still find the thesis interesting.
12
The Little Flowers of St. Francis
de Saint Francis of Assisi
1,204 membros
12 resenhas
½ 3.6
Global Rank 47
2 Members
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Explicações
13
The Practice of the Presence of God
de Brother Lawrence
5,795 membros
55 resenhas
4
Global Rank 39
2 Members
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14
The Way of a Pilgrim / The Pilgrim Continues His Way
de Anonymous
1,941 membros
21 resenhas
4.2
Global Rank 64
Member
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15
Thomas Aquinas: Selected Writings [edited by Ralph McInerny]
de Thomas Aquinas
824 membros
3 resenhas
3.9
Global Rank 49
2 Members
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Explicações
aulsmith: I thought some of Aquinas was so nit-picky as to be hilarious.
16
The Pilgrim's Progress
de John Bunyan
17,459 membros
171 resenhas
½ 3.7
Global Rank 16
7 Members
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Explicações
aulsmith: Got about half-way through. Boooring!
17
Out of the Silent Planet
de C. S. Lewis
10,998 membros
163 resenhas
3.8
Global Rank 12
8 Members
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Explicações
aulsmith: Awful
18
As Crônicas de Nárnia
de C. S. Lewis
35,504 membros
312 resenhas
½ 4.3
Global Rank 20
5 Members
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Explicações
aulsmith: Read, but I hated the ending. Certainly drove me towards Universalism, which was not Lewis' intent.
19
Perelandra
de C. S. Lewis
8,807 membros
106 resenhas
3.8
Global Rank 7
8 Members
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Explicações
aulsmith: Terrible.
20
The Scarlet Letter
de Nathaniel Hawthorne
36,501 membros
372 resenhas
½ 3.4
Global Rank 26
4 Members
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Explicações
aulsmith: I found the minister's swarminess too off-putting to say I enjoyed this.
21
Holy Bible: King James Version
de King James Version
498 membros
19 resenhas
3.8
Global Rank 18
5 Members
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Explicações
aulsmith: I read it, but I certainly didn't understand it.
22
The new Oxford annotated Bible with the Apocrypha
de Herbert G. May
Member
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Explicações
aulsmith: Worked well until the NRSV came out.
23
Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian in Community
de Dietrich Bonhoeffer
5,368 membros
37 resenhas
4.2
Global Rank 71
Member
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Explicações
aulsmith: Loved this book when I was in college.
24
The Long Loneliness: The Autobiography of the Legendary Catholic Social Activist
de Dorothy Day
1,257 membros
16 resenhas
4
Global Rank 73
Member
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25
The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius
de St. Ignatius of Loyola
2,903 membros
28 resenhas
3.9
Global Rank 74
Member
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26
The Canterbury Tales
de Geoffrey Chaucer
21,963 membros
168 resenhas
½ 3.7
Global Rank 22
5 Members
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27
The Jerusalem Bible: Reader's Edition
de Alexander Jones
978 membros
1 resenha
4
Global Rank 78
Member
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Explicações
aulsmith: The most lyrical of the English translations.
28
Mysticism
de Evelyn Underhill
1,045 membros
7 resenhas
4
Global Rank 79
Member
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29
The Imitation of Christ
de Thomas : von Kempen
10,130 membros
81 resenhas
4.1
Global Rank 24
5 Members
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30
The Church and the Homosexual
de John J. McNeill
390 membros
3 resenhas
½ 4.3
Global Rank 81
Member
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31
Good News for Modern Man: The New Testament in Today's English Version
de American Bible Society
2,093 membros
11 resenhas
½ 3.6
Global Rank 53
2 Members
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Explicações
aulsmith: The first Bible I understood.
32
The Epistle to the Romans
de Karl Barth
1,220 membros
9 resenhas
3.9
Global Rank 83
Member
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33
The Greek New Testament
de Eberhard Nestle
6,307 membros
21 resenhas
½ 4.5
Global Rank 84
Member
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Explicações
aulsmith: Didn't get very far.
34
The Screwtape Letters / Screwtape Proposes a Toast
de C. S. Lewis
17,366 membros
153 resenhas
4.1
Global Rank 1
9 Members
hipdeep, cpg, Moomin_Mama, aulsmith, merrystar, cej1027, ahef1963, bethanyseeley, Sstgr
Explicações
aulsmith: Yuck.
35
Inferno
de Dante Alighieri
23,863 membros
212 resenhas
4.1
Global Rank 8
7 Members
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Explicações
aulsmith: Got to about the 5th circle before giving up.
36
Paradise Lost
de John Milton
13,884 membros
112 resenhas
4
Global Rank 25
4 Members
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Explicações
aulsmith: Too boring to finish
37
The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ
de Joseph Smith
7,249 membros
90 resenhas
3.2
Global Rank 147
3 Members
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Explicações
aulsmith: I tried but this was even more boring than Pilgrim's Progress.
38
Holy Blood, Holy Grail
de Michael Baigent
4,433 membros
78 resenhas
3.2
Global Rank 27
4 Members
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Explicações
aulsmith: Dumb.
39
Seeds of Contemplation
de Thomas Merton
446 membros
4 resenhas
4
Global Rank 51
2 Members
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40
The Dance of the Dissident Daughter: A Woman's Journey from Christian Tradition to the Sacred Feminine
de Sue Monk Kidd
1,183 membros
20 resenhas
3.8
Global Rank 95
Member
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41
Beyond God the Father: Toward a Philosophy of Women's Liberation
de Mary Daly
696 membros
1 resenha
½ 3.5
Global Rank 96
Member
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Explicações
aulsmith: I tried.
42
The Robe
de Lloyd C. Douglas
2,857 membros
29 resenhas
4.1
Global Rank 98
Member
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43
Os Irmãos Karamazóv
de Fyodor Dostoevsky
29,444 membros
328 resenhas
½ 4.4
Global Rank 36
3 Members
cpg, aulsmith, merrystar
44
The Lost Books of the Bible
de William Hone
1,257 membros
12 resenhas
3.2
Global Rank 156
Member
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Explicações
aulsmith: Read the childhood narratives in the Gospel of Thomas. What a hoot.
45
Luther's Small Catechism
de Martin Luther
2,943 membros
12 resenhas
4.2
Global Rank 104
Member
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46
The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible
de James Strong
3,760 membros
28 resenhas
½ 4.3
Global Rank 105
Member
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Explicações
aulsmith: Exhausting
47
Belas Maldições
de Terry Pratchett
34,727 membros
787 resenhas
½ 4.3
Global Rank 35
3 Members
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Explicações
aulsmith: Boring
48
Murder in the Cathedral
de T. S. Eliot
3,090 membros
31 resenhas
½ 3.7
Global Rank 34
3 Members
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Explicações
aulsmith: My least favorite of the Becket plays. Smug and hard to read.
49
The Sparrow
de Mary Doria Russell
7,700 membros
406 resenhas
4.1
Global Rank 107
Member
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Explicações
aulsmith: The idea of fictionalizing the Jesuit Relations was interesting, but the execution had way too much masochism for my taste.
50
Augustine: A New Biography
de James J. O'Donnell
367 membros
7 resenhas
3.2
Global Rank 108
Member
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Explicações
aulsmith: I found a lot of interesting information about the 4th century church here
51
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
de David Mitchell
5,901 membros
312 resenhas
4.1
Global Rank 110
Member
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52
The Methodist Hymnal
de The Methodist Church
844 membros
1 resenha
½ 3.7
Global Rank 112
Member
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53
Eunuchs for the Kingdom of Heaven: Women, Sexuality and the Catholic Church
de Uta Ranke-Heinemann
366 membros
5 resenhas
3.8
Global Rank 114
Member
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54
Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
de Jonathan Edwards
1,009 membros
11 resenhas
4
Global Rank 56
2 Members
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Explicações
aulsmith: Triple yuck.
56
O Nome da Rosa
de Umberto Eco
19,496 membros
310 resenhas
4.2
Global Rank 29
4 Members
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The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible
de A. J. Jacobs
4,667 membros
192 resenhas
3.8
Global Rank 157
Explicações
aulsmith : I remember this being more about Judaism but it does explains much that I find disturbing about religion.
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A Canticle for Leibowitz
de Walter M. Miller Jr.
11,730 membros
306 resenhas
3.9
Global Rank 61
2 Members
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Explicações
aulsmith : This is not about Christianity. It's about secular humanism using the trappings of Christianity to survive.
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The Handmaid's Tale
de Margaret Atwood
42,212 membros
1,137 resenhas
4.1
Global Rank 148
2 Members
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Explicações
aulsmith : I'm not fond of allegory, even when the Christians are the bad guys.