Christianity is amongst the various religions in the world. In fact, based on the demographic analysis of the Pew Research Center, Christianity maintained its title as the biggest religious group all around the globe in the year 2015. It composes about 31 percent of the 7.3 billion residents in the world. As the number of Christians increases, the thirst for spiritual maturity and understanding also heightens. People tend to look for their own measures to find their way to be closer to God. Some opt for bible sharing while others go for reading.
There are various books about spirituality and Christianity present in literature. These books belong to Christian literature, which is the avenue of literature that focuses on God and Christianity. These works can be both in fiction and nonfiction and are promoting the word of the Lord or something that is related to Christianity. The themes can also tackle about finding someone’s purpose in life through the guidance of the Divine being, living a better life by walking through faith, and more. So, if you are one of the die-hard fans of Christian literature, here are five remarkable authors you might want to check out!
David Murdoch
David Murdoch is a Christian book author who have read and examined the Holy Scripture almost all of his life. In the early 70s, he became a pastor in Baytown, Texas where he started giving advice and guidance to his constituents. Murdoch stated that most of the challenges in the lives of the people happen as a consequence of lack of Bible knowledge. When David found out that the irreplaceable languages were accessible to everyone that are utilizing the original Strong’s Concordance, the Holy Scripture turned out to be much more significant in responding to the uncertainties of life. He also discovered that numerous beliefs carried out by various Catholic churches were referred from the traditions of people rather than the Bible for the Holy Scripture was originally in English. Murdoch strongly believes that if people delights God, He is morally obliged to bless His people.
Lee Strobel
Lee Strobel was born on January 25, 1952 in Arlington Heights, Illinois. He is a notable author in Christian literature more than three books entitled The Case for Christ, The Case for Faith, The Case for a Creator, and more. Four of his book have already been recognized as the ECPA Christian Book Awards. Most of his writings fall in the Christology and Historicity of the Gospels categories with the subject of Christian apologetics. In the years 1987 to 2000, he became a teaching pastor at Willow Creek Community Church in South Barrington, Illinois. Aside from being an author and after he became a pastor, he was once an investigative journalist and have hosted a TV show called Faith Under Fire. He also participated in various interviews from different television networks, such as CNN, Fox News, and more.
Marilynne Robinson
Marilynne Robinson was born on November 26, 1943 in Sandpoint, Idaho as Marilynne Summers. She is a remarkable author and essayist. Robinson has a successful writing career. She has received various awards back in the days, such as Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2005, Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction in 2016, and National Humanities Medal in 2005. She even made it to the top 100 most influential people list of Time’s magazine in 2016. One of her popular book was Gilead, which was recognized as the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2005 and the National Book Critics Circle Awardee. Gilead is a fiction book that focuses on rural life and faith, it is also considered as an epistolary book. Robinson also wrote impressive essays, such as Humanism, Science, and the Radical Expansion of the Possible, Fear, Which Way to the City on a Hill?, and more.
Beth Moore
Beth Moore is a prominent Christian book author with more than eight published books, such as When Godly People Do Ungodly Things, Believing God, Get Out of That Pit: Straight Talk about God’s Deliverance, etc. She was born in Green Bay, Wisconsin as Wanda Elizabeth Green, but was raised in Arkadelphia, Arkansas. Apart from being an author, she also became a Bible teacher and an evangelist. Furthermore, she also have written and created various video resources appertaining to the Bible studies that she performs at the Houston’s First Baptist Church and Living Proof Live symposia. Moore have founded the Living Proof Ministries, which is a Bible-based group intended for helping women who want to center their lives on Evangelicalism principles that is located in Houston, Texas.
Richard J. Foster
Richard J. Foster was born in New Mexico on 1942. He is an author and a Christian theologian. Foster acquired his bachelor’s degree from George Fox University in Newberg, Oregon and his doctor’s degree in pastoral theology from Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California. Besides being a writer and theologian, he also taught in Friends University and became a pastor at Evangelical Friends churches. He was prominently known for his book called Celebration of Discipline: The Path to Spiritual Growth that was published in 1978. The said book evaluated the intrinsic disciplines of study, prayer, meditation, and fasting in the life of the Christians, as well as the extrinsic disciplines of solitude, service, simplicity, and surrendering. Confession, guidance, celebration, and worship were also tackled by Foster’s remarkable book.
The Happy Hammock 