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Principles for Living in the Negative World
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Contours of Culture
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Nathan O. Hatch's The Democratization of American Christianity
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Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places: A Conversation in Spiritual Theology by Eugene Peterson
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The Last Cavalier Poet
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A Retrieval
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Points of Contact
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