100 Christian Books That Changed the Century

In many ways, it is like Bill Petersen and Randy Petersen have looked over my shoulder at the books I've read and loved. This book will educate you about some of the significant Christian books which changed this century--and you will encounter some new titles and recall some old ones. If you love books, you will enjoy this title. I recommend it.

I love books of lists, especially when the lists are evaluated as these 100 books are.Everyone will disagree with the Petersens over inclusions and exclusions, but I think that most people would be happy with at least 75% of what they find here.The authors have included:reference books such as The New Bible Commentary and the New Bible Dictionaryfiction, such as Sheldon's In His Steps and C.S.Lewis' Screwtape Letters and Chronicles of Narniaapologetic such as Morrison's Who Moved the Stone? and Lewis' Mere ChristianityBible translations, or part thereof, such as Ken Taylor's Living Letters theological works, such as Barth's Church Dogmatics, Berkouwer's Man:The Image of God and Packer's Knowing God personal testimony, such as Eareckson's Joni and Chuck Colson's Born Againpopular How-to books such as Peales' The Power of Positive Thinking and Warren's The Purpose-Driven Churchbooks written to provoke evangelicals to action, such as Henry's The Uneasy Conscience of Modern Fundamentalism and Ron Sider's Rich Christians in an Age of HungerIt is a little strange that Living Letters is the only Bible translation included. I would have thought that several others had had as great an impact as Taylor's paraphrase. The articles about each book chosen are short and to the point. Sometimes there could have been a little more detail, particularly about lesser-known works.This book should get people talking about Christian books that have made an impact on them. Warmly recommended.