Books about Christianity

Each article in this text is an example of Lewis's ability to explain and defend what he terms mere Christianity. He expounds the reasons why Christianity is a credible faith and looks at Christian belief and behaviour.

This narrative takes the form of a series of letters from Screwtape, a devil high in the Infernal Civil Service, to his nephew Wormwood, a junior colleague engaged in his first mission on Earth, trying to secure the damnation of a young man who has just become a Christian.

The narrator finds himself in the grey limbo of Hell, where the disgruntled inhabitants take a bus-ride to the plains of Heaven, where they meet angels and the souls of those already in Heaven. This fantasy communicates Lewis's deep spiritual truths through the power of the fantastic.

The idea of a single divine being - God, Yahweh, Allah- has existed for over 4000 years. In this account of the evolution of belief Armstrong examines Western society's unerring fidelity to this idea of one God and the many conflicting convictions it engenders. Originally published in 1993 by William Heinemann.

C.S. Lewis sets out to disentangle this knotty issue but adds that in the end no intellectual solution can dispense with the necessity of patience and courage.

Harvard Professor Robert Langton, visiting Paris, is called in when the curator of the Louvre is murdered. Alongside the body is a series of baffling ciphers. Langton and a gifted French cryptologist, Sophie Neveu, are amazed to find a trail that leads to the works of Da Vinci - and beyond.

The most basic human questions are,Why am I here?' and 'What is my purpose? Rick Warren presents an essential manifesto for Christian living in the twenty first century.

Lewis' work on the nature of love divides love into four categories; Affection, Friendship, Eros and Charity. The first three come naturally to humanity. Charity, however, the Gift-love of God, is divine, and without this supernatural love, the natural loves become distorted and even dangerous.

This volume contains all seven Chronicles of Narnia . The stories depict a world where a witch decrees eternal winter; where there are more talking animals than people; and where battles are fought by Centaurs, Giants and Fauns.

As discussed in The Da Vinci Code ... long buried and suppressed, this title contains the secret writings attributed to the followers of Jesus. It examines these texts and the questions they pose, and shows why Gnosticism was eventually stamped out by the increasingly organised and institutionalised Orthodox Church.

In this text, Lewis attempts to show that a Christian must not only accept but also rejoice in miracles as a testimony of the personal involvement of God in his creation. He challenges the rationalists, agnostics and deists on their own grounds.

By tracking down and interviewing top scholars, Lee Stobel, a seasoned journalist and graduate in law, investigates the claims of Christianity. Written in the style of a blockbuster investigative report, The Case for Christ is apologetics at its most imaginative; a riveting quest for the truth about history's most compelling figure.

St Augustine, bishop of Hippo, was one of the central figures in the history of Christianity. Written as a defence of the faith at a time when the Roman Empire was on the brink of collapse, this title examines the ancient pagan religions of Rome, the arguments of the Greek philosophers and the revelations of the Bible.