Controversial Books

This page shows your 100 most controversial books, as measured by the standard deviation of members star ratings. (This is also the source of the Zeitgeist category "25 Books People Can't Agree on.") To be included, a book must have been rated at least 20 times. Work titles are given.

Standard Deviation	Rating	Title
0.983	3.74	In Defense of Elitism by William A. Henry
0.947	4.26	The Gagging of God by D. A. Carson
0.939	4.26	The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism by Timothy Keller
0.926	3.54	From Bauhaus to Our House by Tom Wolfe
0.92	3.87	The Climax of the Covenant: Christ and the Law in Pauline Theology by N. T. Wright
0.844	4.52	Institutes of the Christian Religion by John Calvin
0.816	4	501 Latin Verbs by Richard E. Prior
0.79	4.23	Future Grace by John Piper
0.776	4.4	Commentary on the New Testament Use of the Old Testament by G. K. Beale
0.75	4.11	Battling Unbelief: Defeating Sin with Superior Pleasure by John Piper
0.729	4.32	No Place for Truth or Whatever Happened to Evangelical Theology? by David Falconer Wells
0.687	4.68	The Holy Bible: English Standard Version by Bible
0.633	4.47	Call to Spiritual Reformation, A: Priorities from Paul and His Prayers by D. A. Carson

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