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The Little Flowers of Saint Francis of Assisi

Author: various

St. Francis of Assisi's ecstatic embrace of a life of poverty revolutionized Christianity even as it transformed the ethics of the West. In this luminous and lively book, St. Francis's followers preserved his legend and those of his first disciples, combining stories of miracles with convincing portraits of men who were no less human for having been touched by God.
Retrieving the Tradition and Renewing Evangelicalism

Author: D.H. Williams

This innovative work urges the reappropriation of the patristic roots of the Christian faith by Protestants who remain today largely suspicious of church history and the relationship between Scripture and tradition.

According to Daniel Williams, if Evangelical and Free Church communions are to halt their slide into a historicalism, spiritual subjectivism, and accommodation to Western cultural influences, they must reaffirm Christianity''s truly "catholic" tradition, based on the apostolic sources.
The Divine Conspiracy

Author: Dallas Willard

Is Jesus part of your daily life—here and now? Or, by failing to take him seriously, have you relegated him to the realm of the "hereafter"? In this book from professor and theologian Dallas Willard, biblical teaching, popular culture, science, scholarship, and spiritual practice are weaved together to capture the central insights of Christ's teachings in a fresh way and show the necessity of profound changes in how we view our lives and faith.
The Imitation of Christ

Author: Thomas a Kempis

Description: Only the Bible has been more influential as a source of Christian devotional reading than The Imitation of Christ. This meditation on the spiritual life has inspired readers from Thomas More and St. Ignatius Loyola to Thomas Merton and Pope John Paul I. Written by the Augustinian monk Thomas à Kempis between 1420 and 1427, it contains clear instructions for renouncing wordly vanities and locating eternal truths. No book has more explicitly and movingly described the Christian ideal: "My son, to the degree that you can leave yourself behind, to that degree will you be able to enter into Me."
Free of Charge

by Miroslav Volf

Description: Arguing that Christians are called to imitate God's generosity, Miroslav Volf, a theology professor at Yale Divinity School , explores what that looks like in the area of giving and forgiving. The first half of the book, on giving, and the second half, on forgiveness, are divided by a short interlude that tries to connect the two parts. Volf's thinking and writing are lucid and instructive. He eschews pop psychology, relying instead on biblical, ethical and theological understandings of God's generosity. Volf never shies away from the difficult personal and communal issues that giving and forgiving pose; the result is a practical and hopeful resource for those struggling to understand their responsibilities in these areas.