12 books like Learning to Walk in the Dark

What to read after Learning to Walk in the Dark — books similar to it, matched on shared themes.

Ruthless Trust Brennan Manning · 2000 · ★ 4.5 · 208p · ≈ 6h · Moderate In his sequel to The Ragamuffin Gospel bestselling author Brennan Manning shows how true and radical trust in God can transform our lives and invigorate our approach to Christian living.Manning, beloved author and spiritual teacher, shows us how trust in God can transform our lives and open us up to deeper experiences of grace and love. In Ruthless Trust EPB, he turns his focus from furious love… Shares: Christian Life, Christianity

Confessiones Augustine of Hippo · 1482 · ★ 4.0 · 383p · ≈ 12h · Demanding Garry Wills’s complete translation of Saint Augustine’s spiritual masterpiece—available now for the first time Garry Wills is an exceptionally gifted translator and one of our best writers on religion today. His bestselling translations of individual chapters of Saint Augustine’s Confessions have received widespread and glowing reviews. Now for the first time, Wills’s translation of the entire… Shares: Spiritual life, Christianity

A Course In Miracles Helen Schucman · 1992 · 660p · ≈ 22h · Moderate This is the edition of "A Course in Miracles" that its two scribes, Drs. Helen Schucman and Bill Thetford, authorized for publication by the Foundation for Inner Peace in 1975. It is now available in translation in 27 languages and is widely used by students in thousands of Course study groups around the world. A Course in Miracles​ ​is a unique spiritual self-study program—a course in… Shares: Spiritual life, Christian Life

The Pilgrim's Progress John Bunyan · 1678 · ★ 4.1 · 494p · ≈ 16h · Demanding Bunyan's allegory uses the everyday world of common experience as a metaphor for the spiritual journey of the soul toward God. The hero, Christian, encounters many obstacles in his quest: the Valley of the Shadow of Death, Vanity Fair, Doubting Castle, the Wicket Gate, as well as those who tempt him from his path (e.g., Talkative, Mr. Worldly Wiseman, the Giant Despair). But in the end he reaches… Shares: Spiritual life, Christian Life

The Power of Now Eckhart Tolle · 1997 · ★ 4.5 · 224p · ≈ 7h · Moderate Eckhart Tolle has emerged as one of today's most inspiring teachers. In The Power of Now, already a worldwide bestseller, the author describes his transition from despair to self-realization soon after his 29th birthday. Tolle took another ten years to understand this transformation, during which time he evolved a philosophy that has parallels in Buddhism, relaxation techniques, and meditation… Shares: Spiritual life, Christianity

Exercitia spiritualia Saint Ignatius of Loyola · 1548 · ★ 5.0 · 217p · ≈ 7h · Demanding This new edition, with its accompanying introduction and commentary, is intended for use as a manual by those making, directing or studying the "Exercises". In the case of retreatants, their chief aim is to foster the experience of prayer, prayerful deliberation and cooperation with God's graces which St. Ignatius intended his Exercises to induce in those who are making them. A retreat,… Shares: Spiritual life, Christian Life

Personality Plus Florence Littauer · 1983 · 198p · ≈ 6h · Moderate A revealing "personality profile" self-test and Littauer's insightful advice help readers better understand themselves and others. A best-seller. Shares: Christian Life, Christianity

Grace abounding to the chief of sinners John Bunyan · 1666 · ★ 4.2 · 132p · ≈ 4h · Demanding One of the classic spiritual autobiographies, this dramatic conversion testimony by Pilgrim's Progress author John Bunyan features a vivid awareness of God and Satan as personal beings. Throughout his account, Bunyan relies closely on the firm promises of God's Word as a spiritual defence. Shares: Spiritual life, Christian Life

Sobranie sochinenii v dvadtsati dvukh tomakh Лев Толстой · 1882 · 51p · ≈ 1h · Challenging Translation from various works on Idealism. Shares: Spiritual life, Christianity

Sygdommen til døden Søren Kierkegaard · 1849 · ★ 4.1 · 153p · ≈ 5h · Challenging The 'sickness' which Kierkegaard's book refers to as 'unto death' is resistance to this belief. It is the inclination to accept that as far as the individual is concerned, death is indeed the end. Now why should Kierkegaard want to call that a sickness? After all, even in his own time there must have been people strong both in might and body who rejected the Christian teaching of sin and… Shares: Christian Life, Christianity

Religio medici Thomas Browne · 1642 · 268p · ≈ 8h · Demanding This book consists of three pivotal essays from the 17th century doctor and scholar Sir Thomas Browne. These spiritual meditations cover various subjects including the relation of Christianity to science and the meaning of mortality. Shares: Christian Life, Christianity

The pilgrim's regress C. S. Lewis · 1933 · ★ 3.9 · 205p · ≈ 6h · Challenging One of Lewis's earlier works, this book is a similar parable to Bunyan's "The Pilgrim's Progress"; while "Pilgrim's Progress" describes the journey of a non-Christian coming into Christianity, "The Pilgrim's Regress" describes the journey of a man from a Christian background leaving Christianity and then coming back again. As Lewis takes us through this abstract tale, we are left wondering what… Shares: Christian Life, Christianity

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