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Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ. Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ is a novel by Lew Wallace, published by Harper and Brothers on November 12, 1880, and considered "the most influential Christian book of the nineteenth century". [ 1] It became a best-selling American novel, surpassing Harriet Beecher Stowe 's Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) in sales.
Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing. Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing is a children's novel written by American author Judy Blume and published in 1972. [ 1] It is the first in the Fudge series and was followed by Otherwise Known as Sheila the Great, Superfudge, Fudge-a-Mania, and Double Fudge (2002). [ 1][ 2] Although Otherwise Known as Sheila the ...
The title pages of three historic versions of Revelations of Divine Love (from left to right): Serenus de Cressy's 1670 edition of the Long Text ; the Long Text, written by an unknown hand in c. 1675, and copied from the manuscript used for the Serenus de Cressy edition of the book (Manuscript Stowe 42); the edition of the book by Grace Warrack (1901) Part of a series on Christian mysticism ...
The New International Reader's Version (NIrV) is a translation of the Bible in contemporary English. Translated by the International Bible Society (now Biblica) following a similar philosophy as the New International Version (NIV), but written in a simpler form of English, this version seeks to make the Bible more accessible for children and people who have difficulty reading English, such as ...
This is a list of classic children's books published no later than 2008 and still available in the English language. [1] [2] [3] Books specifically for children existed by the 17th century. Before that, books were written mainly for adults – although some later became popular with children.
The Jesus I Never Knew is a popular 1995 Christological book by the American Christian author Philip Yancey.It won the Gold Medallion Book Award and ECPA Christian Book of the Year 1996: it is a book that appeals to the wider Christian public for its personal approach to the figure of Jesus, with a fresh and vivid portrayal extracted from a dynamic reading of the four canonical gospels.
The book sold a record eight million copies in its first year of publication and was the bestselling nonfiction book of 2001. [4] It was on The New York Times Best Seller List for 94 weeks. [5] The Prayer of Jabez received the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association Gold Medallion Book of the Year award in 2001. [6] The prayer, after being ...
Knowing God. Knowing God is a book by J. I. Packer, a British-born Canadian Christian theologian. It is his best-known work, having sold over 1,000,000 copies in North America alone. [ 1] Originally written as a series of articles for the Evangelical Magazine, it was first published as a book in 1973 and has been reprinted several times.