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Top 3

#1
Dan Carlin

Death Throes of the Republic

The wars which elevate Rome to superpower status also sow the seed for the downfall of its political system. Money, slaves, ambition, political stalemate and class warfare prove to be a toxic, bloody mix.

#2
Nick Needham

2000 Years of Christ’s Power Volume 1

Every generation has an uncanny tendency to view themselves as more enlightened than those that have gone before. The Church certainly has made mistakes all through history – and yet, no insights which we possess would be possible without the efforts, and even some of the mistakes, of our ancestors. The first volume of 2,000 Years of Christ’s Power covers the period from the 1st Century AD to the start of the Middle Ages. From the works of Saint Augustine of Hippo to the first apologetic ever penned, this time in history established the foundations of what we take for granted today.

#3
Fulton Sheen

The Life of Christ

This book explores the foretelling of Christ’s birth, his life, temptations, death, and resurrection. But while Sheen himself was a scholar and academic, his recounting is both readable and accessible to the layperson.

Top 20

  1. The Resurrection of the Son of God N.T. Wright
  2. Jesus of Nazareth 1-3 Pope Benedict XVI
  3. Paul and the Faithfulness of God N.T. Wright
  4. The Heresy of Orthodoxy Andreas Kostenberger
  5. A History of Religious Ideas Volume 2 Mircea Eliade
  6. Jesus and the Victory of God N.T. Wright
  7. Reading Backwards Richard B. Hays
  8. Caesar and Christ Will Durant
  9. The New Testament and the People of God N.T. Wright
  10. 21 Servants of Sovereign Joy John Piper
  11. The Age of Faith Will Durant
  12. The Life of Greece Will Durant
  13. The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah Alfred Edersheim
  14. Paul N.T. Wright
  15. The Life of Julius Caesar Suetonius
  16. Classical Philosophy Peter S. Adamson
  17. The Christian Tradition Volume 1 Jaroslav Pelikan
  18. Augustine of Hippo Peter Brown
  19. Dominion Tom Holland
  20. The Apostle: a Life of Paul John Charles Pollock
  21. Pax: War and Peace in Rome’s Golden Age Tom Holland
  22. The Storm Before the Storm Mike Duncan
  23. Men of the Bible Dwight L. Moody
  24. The Triumph of Christianity Rodney Stark

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