Authors
Writers, teachers, and thinkers whose work we've catalogued.
Thích Nhất Hạnh
108 books
Thich Nhat Hanh (1926-2022) was a Vietnamese Zen monk who coined the term 'engaged Buddhism,' founded Plum Village monastery in France, and became known globally as the 'father of mindfulness' …
Gregory Toussaint
106 books
Gregory Toussaint is a Haitian-born pastor, broadcaster, and author who founded Tabernacle of Glory in Miami in 2006 and spent eighteen years building toward a permanent $60 million, 62-branch global …
Dada Bhagwan
78 books
Ambalal Muljibhai Patel (1908, 1988), known as Dada Bhagwan, was a Gujarati spiritual teacher who founded the Akram Vignan movement after claiming self-realisation at Surat railway station in 1958. He …
Augustine of Hippo
67 books
Augustine of Hippo (354, 430) was a bishop, theologian, and philosopher from Roman North Africa whose doctrines of original sin, predestination, and grace became foundational to Western Christianity and whose …
Charles R. Swindoll
54 books
Charles R. Swindoll, born in El Campo, Texas in 1934, is an evangelical pastor, broadcaster, and author who overcame a childhood stutter to become one of America's most influential preachers. …
Bhagwan Rajneesh
50 books
Chandra Mohan Jain (1931, 1990), known as Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh and later Osho, was an Indian philosopher and mystic who founded the Rajneesh movement, developed dynamic meditation, and built a …
Andrew Murray
48 books
Andrew Murray (1828, 1917) was a South African Dutch Reformed pastor, institution-builder, and prolific devotional author whose books on prayer, humility, and surrender circulated in dozens of languages and made …
Martin Hengel
44 books
Martin Hengel (1926, 2009) was a German Protestant scholar of early Judaism, early Christianity, and the Hellenistic world, based for most of his career at the University of Tübingen. His …
Peter DeHaan
42 books
Peter DeHaan is an American Christian author, Bible teacher, and founder of ABibleADay.com who writes accessible Bible study books challenging readers to shed religious habit and engage Scripture directly. His …
Alister E. McGrath
41 books
Alister Edgar McGrath is an Irish Anglican priest, molecular biophysicist, and theologian who holds three Oxford doctorates across science and theology. Over fifty years he has built a sustained intellectual …
Karl Rahner
41 books
Karl Rahner (1904, 1984) was a German Jesuit priest and theologian who reshaped twentieth-century Catholic thought more thoroughly than any single thinker since Thomas Aquinas. Trained under Martin Heidegger at …
Emanuel Swedenborg
40 books
Emanuel Swedenborg (1688, 1772) was a Swedish polymath who spent the first half of his career as a scientist, engineer, and mining official before a series of visions in 1743, …
Eugen Drewermann
40 books
Eugen Drewermann (born 1940, Bergkamen) is a German theologian, psychotherapist, and peace activist who spent four decades arguing for a depth-psychological reading of Christian scripture and became the most publicly …
James D. G. Dunn
36 books
James D. G. Dunn (1939, 2020) was a British New Testament scholar and Lightfoot Professor of Divinity at Durham University, best known for coining the term 'New Perspective on Paul' …
Hsuan Hua
35 books
Hsuan Hua (1918, 1995) was a Chinese Chan Buddhist monk and monastic reformer who transplanted traditional Buddhist monasticism to the United States, founding the City of Ten Thousand Buddhas, Dharma …
F. F. Bruce
34 books
F. F. Bruce (1910, 1990) was a Scottish biblical scholar who held the Rylands Professorship of Biblical Criticism and Exegesis at the University of Manchester. Raised in the Plymouth Brethren …
Josh McDowell
34 books
Josh McDowell is an American evangelical apologist and author whose sixty-year career produced more than 120 books, including *Evidence That Demands a Verdict* and *More Than a Carpenter*, reaching approximately …
A. W. Tozer
32 books
A. W. Tozer (1897, 1963) was a self-educated American pastor and editor in the Christian and Missionary Alliance whose books on the interior life of Christian faith, especially 'The Pursuit …
Bruce Chilton
32 books
Bruce D. Chilton is an American biblical scholar and Episcopalian priest best known for situating Jesus within first-century Judaism through the study of the Aramaic Targumim. Holding the Bernard Iddings …
Dorothee Sölle
32 books
Dorothee Sölle (1929, 2003) was a German Lutheran theologian, poet, and political activist who developed political theology as a form of engaged praxis, arguing that faith without justice is theologically …
Stanley Hauerwas
32 books
Stanley Hauerwas, born July 24, 1940, is an American Protestant theologian and ethicist who spent decades at Duke Divinity School arguing that Christian ethics is inseparable from Christian community and …
Ellen Gould Harmon White
31 books
Ellen G. White (1827, 1915) co-founded the Seventh-day Adventist Church and became the most translated female non-fiction author in literary history. Over a seventy-year ministry she produced more than 5,000 …
Alan Watts
29 books
Alan Watts was a British-born philosopher and broadcaster who spent four decades translating Zen Buddhism, Taoism, and Vedanta into language accessible to Western audiences, building a national following through radio, …
Chögyam Trungpa
29 books
Chögyam Trungpa (1939, 1987) was a Tibetan Buddhist master of the Kagyu and Nyingma lineages who became a central figure in bringing Vajrayana teaching to the West, founding Vajradhatu, Naropa …
Helmut Thielicke
29 books
Helmut Thielicke (1908, 1986) was a German Lutheran theologian and rector of the University of Hamburg whose career bridged rigorous systematic theology and popular preaching to packed congregations. Formed by …
Jack W. Hayford
29 books
Jack W. Hayford (1934, 2023) was an American Pentecostal pastor, broadcaster, and composer best known for growing The Church on the Way in Van Nuys, California from fewer than twenty …
Joel Osteen
29 books
Joel Scott Osteen, born in Houston in 1963, spent seventeen years producing his father John Osteen's televised sermons at Lakewood Church before becoming its senior pastor in 1999 following his …
Rowan Williams
29 books
Rowan Douglas Williams, Baron Williams of Oystermouth, is a Welsh Anglican theologian, poet, and former Archbishop of Canterbury (2003, 2012) whose scholarship on Christian mysticism, prayer, and the incarnation draws …
Athalya Brenner
28 books
Athalya Brenner-Idan is a Dutch-Israeli biblical scholar and Professor Emerita at the University of Amsterdam, best known for founding feminist biblical criticism as a serious academic discipline through her twenty-volume …
E.M. Bounds
27 books
Edward McKendree Bounds (1835, 1913) was a Methodist minister, Confederate Army chaplain, and former attorney from Missouri whose eleven books on prayer have remained in continuous Protestant circulation long after …
Jean Calvin
27 books
Jean Calvin (1509, 1564) was the French Protestant theologian whose systematic doctrines of divine sovereignty and predestination became the foundation of Calvinism, shaping Reformed churches across Europe and the Americas. …
Billy Graham
26 books
William Franklin Graham Jr. (1918, 2018) was a Southern Baptist evangelist who preached in person to more people than any Christian minister in recorded history, conducting large-scale crusades across six …
Francis A. Schaeffer
26 books
Francis A. Schaeffer (1912, 1984) was an American evangelical theologian and co-founder of L'Abri in Switzerland, whose apologetics and political writing shaped modern evangelicalism.
Gary Smalley
26 books
Gary Smalley (1940, 2016) was an American counselor and author who spent over thirty years writing and teaching about Christian marriage and family life. His books, including The Language of …
Jacques Ellul
26 books
Jacques Ellul (1912, 1994) was a French sociologist, lay theologian, and philosopher of technology whose sixty-plus books built one of the twentieth century's most rigorous critiques of modern civilisation. His …
Deepak Chopra
24 books
Deepak Chopra is an Indian-born American physician and author who emigrated from Delhi to the United States in the early 1970s and became one of the most widely read figures …
J. I. Packer
24 books
J. I. Packer (1926, 2020) was an evangelical Anglican theologian best known for *Knowing God* (1973) and his work as general editor of the English Standard Version Bible.
Abraham J. Twerski
23 books
Abraham J. Twerski (1930, 2021) was a Hasidic rabbi and psychiatrist who founded Gateway Rehabilitation Center in Pittsburgh and wrote more than sixty books, most of them unified by a …
Anthony B. Pinn
23 books
Anthony B. Pinn is a Rice University scholar who has spent thirty years arguing that African American religion is broader than the church and that humanism is itself a legitimate …
Gregory Baum
23 books
Gregory Baum (1923, 2017) was a German-born Canadian Catholic theologian who drafted the first version of Nostra Aetate at Vatican II, pioneered the integration of classical sociology with Catholic theology, …
H. Norman Wright
23 books
H. Norman Wright (1937, 2023) was a Christian grief and trauma therapist, premarital counseling pioneer, and author of more than one hundred books including *Experiencing Grief* and *What to Say …
B. Alan Wallace
22 books
B. Alan Wallace (born 1950) is an American scholar, translator, and meditation teacher who spent fourteen years as a Tibetan Buddhist monk ordained by the Dalai Lama before earning a …
Andy Stanley
21 books
Andy Stanley is an American pastor, author, and communicator who founded North Point Community Church in Alpharetta, Georgia in 1995, growing it into a network of more than 225 churches …
Bernard Lewis
21 books
Bernard Lewis (1916, 2018) was a British-American historian and Princeton professor whose scholarship on Islam, the Middle East, and Muslim-Western relations made him one of the most influential and contested …
Daisetsu Teitaro Suzuki
21 books
D.T. Suzuki (1870-1966) was a Japanese Zen scholar and translator whose decades of writing and teaching introduced Zen Buddhism to Western readers.
J. Gordon Melton
21 books
J. Gordon Melton is an American religious studies scholar, founder of the Institute for the Study of American Religion, and author of the landmark Encyclopedia of American Religions, known for …
Dilgo Khyentse
9 books
Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche (1910-1991) was a Nyingma Vajrayana master and terton who preserved Tibetan Buddhist teachings after fleeing the Chinese invasion, becoming a teacher to the Dalai Lama and head …
Ajahn Brahm
7 books
Ajahn Brahm, born Peter Betts in London in 1951, left Cambridge physics for Thai Forest Buddhism and became abbot of Bodhinyana Monastery in Western Australia, later expelled from his ordination …
Adyashanti.
3 books
Adyashanti is an American Zen-trained teacher, born Stephen Gray in 1962, known for books including True Meditation and The Impact of Awakening, who retired from teaching in 2023.