Recommended Books - Spiritual Choices

Thomas Jefferson’s Bible

Below I have listed some of the books that I have read in an effort to expand my knowledge, and which I thought would be of interest to you. Each selection below has a handy link to purchase them directly on Amazon.com.

I welcome your feedback and insights, please feel free to contact me.

A History of God

The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam

Armstrong, Karen; 1993

Zealot

The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth

Aslan, Reza; 2013

The Gospel of Thomas:

The Hidden Sayings of Jesus

Bloom, Harold, 1992

A History of the Bible:

The Book and Its Faiths

Barton, John, 2019

The Separation of Church and State:

Writings on a Fundamental Freedom by Church, Forrest; 2011

The Authentic Letters of Paul

A New Reading of Paul’s Rhetoric and Meaning : the Scholars Version

Dewey, Arthur, Et al., 2011

Heaven and Hell:

A History of the Afterlife

Ehrman, Bart D., 2020

How Jesus Became God

the Exaltation of a Jewish Preacher from Galilee

Ehrman, Bart D., 2014

Misquoting Jesus:

The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why

Ehrman, Bart D., 2005

The Bible and the People

Ferrell, Lori Anne, 2008

The Five Gospels

What Did Jesus Really Say? The Search for the Authentic Words of Jesus

Funk, Robert W., Et al., 1993

The Acts of Jesus:

The Search for the Authentic Deeds of Jesus

Walter Funk, Robert; 1997

Doubt:

A History: The Great Doubters and Their Legacy of Innovation from Socrates and Jesus to Thomas Jefferson and Emily Dickinson

Hecht, Jennifer Michael; 2003

William James

Writings 1902-1910 The Varieties of Religious Experience

James, W; 1987

The Jefferson Bible

Jefferson, Thomas, 1989

The Birth and Death of the Church in the First Century

Essay

Krieg, Dr. Carl, 2022

How Christians came to believe in heaven, hell and the immortal soul

Op-Ed

Los Angeles Times, 2021

Thomas Jefferson Biography

A brief look at the life and legacies of the third U.S. President

The Jefferson Monticello

God's Secretaries:

The Making of the King James Bible

Nicolson, Adam; 2003

The Gnostic Gospels

Pagels, Elaine; 1979-11-12

Why Religion?:

A Personal Story

Pagels, Elaine; 2018

Thomas Jefferson:

Writings: Autobiography / Notes on the State of Virginia / Public and Private Papers / Addresses / Letters

Peterson, Merrill, editor; 1984, 2011

Enlightenment Now:

The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress

Pinker, Steven; 2018

The Open Society and Its Enemies, Vol. 2:

Hegel, Marx, and the Aftermath

Popper, Karl; 1945

Re-Claiming the Bible for a Non-Religious World

Spong, John Shelby; 2011

The Sins of Scripture:

Exposing the Bible’s Texts of Hate to Reveal the God of Love

Spong, John Shelby; 2005

The History of Hell

Turner, Alice; 1993

Spiritual Choices: Putting the HERE in Hereafter

Below I have listed some of the fifty-five books that I have read in an effort to expand my spiritual consciousness, and which I thought would be of interest to you. Each selection below has a handy link to purchase them directly on Amazon.com.

The first two listed, Writings—1902-1910: The varieties of religious experience by William James, and The Perennial Dictionary of World Religions by K. Crim, are particularly valuable to the exploration of world religions.

I welcome your feedback and insights, please feel free to contact me.