Controversial Books for ACTS_Library

This page shows the most "controversial" books in this library, as measured by the highest standard deviation of members' star ratings.

Standard Deviation Average Rating Your Rating Title
1.342 3.46 The Manipulated Man by Esther Vilar
1.329 4.29 The Doctrine and Covenants of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints by Joseph Smith
1.304 3.8 Catholicism by Richard P. McBrien
1.272 3.47 The Purpose Driven Life by Rick Warren
1.261 3.44 The Qur'an: Translation (Ali and Razwy) by Sayed A. A. Razwy
1.255 4.15 The First Epistle to the Corinthians by Gordon D. Fee
1.24 3.63 On Being a Christian by Hans Küng
1.235 4.09 Become a Better You: 7 Keys to Improving Your Life Every Day by Joel Osteen
1.228 3.08 Egyptian Language: Easy Lessons in Egyptian Hieroglyphics by E. A. Wallis Budge
1.227 3.55 God at War: The Bible & Spiritual Conflict by Gregory A. Boyd
1.224 4 Elijah: A Man of Heroism and Humility by Charles R. Swindoll
1.207 3.86 Mother Teresa: Come Be My Light - The Private Writings of the Saint of Calcutta by Mother Teresa
1.195 3.14 The Koran (Dawood, 1956) by al-Qur'an
1.192 4.21 The Expositor's Bible commentary : Matthew, Mark, Luke, with the New international version of the Holy Bible (Expositor's Bible commentary, Vol.8) by Frank E. Gaebelein
1.187 3.4 The Epistles to the Colossians, to Philemon, and to the Ephesians by F. F. Bruce
1.183 3.69 Does God Exist?: An Answer for Today by Hans Küng
1.179 3.34 The Purpose-Driven Church: Growth Without Compromising Your Message & Mission by Rick Warren
1.17 3.95 Your Best Life Now: 7 Steps to Living at Your Full Potential by Joel Osteen
1.169 3.67 The Gospel According to Mark: The English Text With Introduction, Exposition, and Notes (New International Commentary on the New Testament) by William L. Lane
1.152 3.71 Revolution in World Missions by K. P. Yohannan
1.149 3.68 Becoming Orthodox: A Journey to the Ancient Christian Faith by Peter E. Gillquist
1.128 3.52 The Apocrypha: An American Translation by Edgar J. Goodspeed
1.124 3.63 The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness by Stephen R. Covey
1.122 3.96 Writings from the Philokalia: On Prayer of the Heart by E. Kadloubovsky
1.118 3.51 The Shape of Things to Come by H. G. Wells
1.099 4.07 The Holy Bible: New American Bible (NAB) by Thomas Nelson
1.099 3.67 Dynamics of Spiritual Life: An Evangelical Theology of Renewal by Richard F. Lovelace
1.098 3.89 The First Epistle Of Peter: An Introduction and Commentary (Tyndale New Testament Commentaries) by Wayne Grudem
1.094 4.11 Summa Theologiae by Thomas Aquinas
1.082 3.85 The Book of the Acts (New International Commentary on the New Testament) by F. F. Bruce
1.064 3.93 The Kindly Ones by Jonathan Littell
1.061 3.8 A Religious History of the American People by Sydney E. Ahlstrom
1.054 3.94 Confessions by Saint Augustine
1.052 3.76 A Theology of Liberation: History, Politics, and Salvation by Gustavo Gutierrez
1.047 3.67 Growing Strong in the Seasons of Life by Charles R. Swindoll
1.047 3.57 Man After Man: An Anthropology of the Future by Dougal Dixon
1.045 3.85 The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change by Stephen R. Covey
1.041 4.41 Liber Aleph Vel Cxi: The Book of Wisdom or Folly (The Equinox) by Aleister Crowley
1.039 3.71 The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Families by Stephen R. Covey
1.034 3.63 Book of the Dead by E. A. Wallis Budge
1.03 3.78 The Gospel According to John (The New International Commentary on the New Testament) by Leon Morris
1.03 4.13 The New Jerusalem Bible by Henry Wansbrough
1.029 4.1 The Imitation of Christ by Thomas : von Kempen
1.027 4.02 The Fathers of the Church: An Introduction to the First Christian Teachers by Mike Aquilina
1.023 3.92 The Case for a Creator: A Journalist Investigates Scientific Evidence That Points Toward God by Lee Strobel
1.017 4.14 Believer's Baptism: Sign of the New Covenant in Christ (Nac Studies in Bible & Theology) by Thomas R. Schreiner
1.015 3.79 Rick Warren's Bible Study Methods by Rick Warren
1.013 3.36 Jesus Christ and Mythology by Rudolf Bultmann
1.013 3.38 The Oxford Illustrated History of Christianity by John McManners
1.011 3.64 Romans: Tyndale New Testament Commentaries by F. F. Bruce
1.01 4 The Interior Castle by St. Teresa of Avila
1.005 3.81 Heroes of History by Will Durant
1.003 3.78 A Practical Grammar for Classical Hebrew by Jacob Weingreen
0.999 3.65 The Little Flowers of St. Francis by Saint Francis of Assisi
0.999 3.8 On the Nature of Things by Titus Lucretius Carus
0.998 3.99 Paradise Lost by John Milton
0.997 4.08 Everyman's Talmud: The Major Teachings of the Rabbinic Sages by Abraham Cohen
0.996 4.13 Three Books of Occult Philosophy by Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim
0.993 3.74 The SPEED of Trust: The One Thing That Changes Everything by Stephen M. R. Covey
0.992 4.03 The Jerusalem Bible: Reader's Edition by Alexander Jones
0.99 3.66 Warlock by Wilbur Smith
0.989 4.19 Aion: Researches into the Phenomenology of the Self by C. G. Jung
0.988 4.17 Making All Things New: An Invitation to the Spiritual Life by Henri J. M. Nouwen
0.988 4.08 The Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon by Francis Brown
0.986 3.97 The Wisdom of the Desert (New Directions) by Thomas Merton
0.98 4.18 Memories, Dreams, Reflections by C. G. Jung
0.98 3.87 First Things First : To Live, to Love, to Learn, to Leave a Legacy by Stephen R. Covey
0.976 3.15 Egyptian Magic by E. A. Wallis Budge
0.97 3.63 The Division of Labor in Society by Emile Durkheim
0.966 3.85 God: A Biography by Jack Miles
0.966 3.94 Knowing Jesus Through the Old Testament by Christopher J. H. Wright
0.965 3.37 Living the 7 Habits by Stephen R. Covey
0.958 3.8 Holy Smokes by Katie MacAlister
0.957 4.02 The New Testament World: Insights from Cultural Anthropology by Bruce J. Malina
0.956 3.81 Boule de Suif and Other Stories by Guy de Maupassant
0.953 3.15 Naked Came the Manatee by Carl Hiaasen
0.95 3.93 The Keys of the Kingdom by A. J. Cronin
0.949 3.85 The Epistle to the Hebrews (The New International Commentary on the New Testament) by F. F. Bruce
0.946 3.62 Essential Sufism by Robert Frager
0.946 3.9 The Psychoanalysis of Fire by Gaston Bachelard
0.945 3.53 A Death in China by Carl Hiaasen
0.944 3.74 Christ: A Crisis in the Life of God by Jack Miles
0.944 3.74 The Purpose of Christmas by Rick Warren
0.944 3.54 The Emerging Church by Dan Kimball
0.943 4.34 Britannica Great Books of the Western World (60 Volumes) by Mortimer J. Adler
0.941 3.86 Faith Seeking Understanding: An Introduction to Christian Theology by Daniel L. Migliore
0.941 4.2 The Little, Brown Book of Anecdotes by Clifton Fadiman
0.94 3.64 Family First: Your Step-by-Step Plan for Creating a Phenomenal Family by Dr. Phil McGraw
0.938 4.15 The New Jerome Biblical Commentary by Joseph A. Fitzmyer
0.937 3.95 Early Christian Writings: The Apostolic Fathers by Clement of Rome
0.933 3.82 Fantasia Mathematica by Clifton Fadiman
0.932 3.97 Jesus through the Centuries: His Place in the History of Culture by Jaroslav Pelikan
0.932 4.42 Theological Dictionary of the New Testament by Gerhard Kittel
0.932 3.72 Melmoth the Wanderer by Charles Maturin
0.931 3.85 The Secret of the Golden Flower: A Chinese Book of Life by Richard Wilhelm
0.931 3.95 Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle by C. G. Jung
0.926 3.6 Hand Me Another Brick by Charles R. Swindoll
0.926 3.58 Meditations on Middle Earth by Karen Haber
0.925 3.78 Death: The Final Stage of Growth by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
0.924 3.86 A History of God: The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam by Karen Armstrong
0.922 2.98 I Killed: True Stories of the Road from America's Top Comics by Ritch Shydner
0.921 4.02 A God Who Hates: The Courageous Woman Who Inflamed the Muslim World Speaks Out Against the Evils of Islam by Wafa Sultan
0.921 4 St. Athanasius: The Life of St. Antony by Alexandrinus. Athanasius
0.92 4.2 Middlemarch by George Eliot
0.919 3.7 Butterball by Guy de Maupassant
0.918 4.14 Early Christian Doctrines by J. N. D. Kelly
0.917 3.63 A Concise History of the Catholic Church by Thomas Bokenkotter
0.917 3.43 CGI Programming with Perl by Gunther Birznieks
0.912 3.77 Four Archetypes. by C. G. Jung
0.911 4.26 Mere Christianity by C. S. Lewis
0.91 3.76 Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle by Daniel L. Everett
0.909 3.79 Hoot by Carl Hiaasen
0.907 3.82 Principle-Centered Leadership by Stephen R. Covey
0.906 3.44 The Lord of the Rings and Philosophy: One Book to Rule Them All (Popular Culture and Philosophy) by Gregory Bassham
0.901 3.75 The Theory of Communicative Action, Volume 1: Reason and the Rationalization of Society by Jürgen Habermas
0.899 3.81 The Book History Reader by David Finkelstein
0.898 3.88 The Early Church by Henry Chadwick
0.897 4.04 Man and His Symbols by Carl Gustav Jung
0.894 4.25 Addiction & Grace by Gerald G. May
0.894 3.53 A Short History of the World by John M. Roberts
0.894 4.17 The Everlasting Man by G.K. Chesterton
0.893 4.03 The Four Loves by C. S. Lewis
0.892 3.86 Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
0.89 4.48 The Complete Story of Civilization by Will Durant
0.89 4.22 Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold by C. S. Lewis
0.887 3.61 The Downhill Lie: A Hacker's Return to a Ruinous Sport by Carl Hiaasen
0.885 3.92 The Best American Short Stories of the Century by John Updike
0.883 3.92 New Testament Exegesis: A Handbook for Students and Pastors by Gordon D. Fee
0.883 4 The Text of the New Testament: An Introduction to the Critical Editions and to the Theory and Practice of Modern Textual Criticism by Kurt Aland
0.883 3.96 The Wounded Healer: Ministry in Contemporary Society by Henri J. M. Nouwen
0.883 4.21 Approval Addiction: Overcoming Your Need to Please Everyone by Joyce Meyer
0.875 3.7 Improving Your Serve by Charles R. Swindoll
0.874 3.93 Answer to Job by C. G. Jung
0.873 3.78 Antagonists in the Church: How to Identify and Deal with Destructive Conflict by Kenneth C. Haugk
0.87 4.11 The Writings of the New Testament: An Interpretation by Luke Timothy Johnson
0.87 4.36 The Spirit of the Liturgy by Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger
0.869 3.73 Flush by Carl Hiaasen
0.867 4.27 The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien
0.867 4.11 The Nag Hammadi Library in English, Third, Completely Revised Edition by James M. Robinson
0.866 3.44 Nature Girl by Carl Hiaasen
0.866 3.91 The Battle for God by Karen Armstrong
0.864 4.33 On the Incarnation: The Treatise De Incarnatione Verbi Dei by Athanasius
0.858 4.02 Christian Theology: An Introduction by Alister E. McGrath
0.855 3.85 Pagans and Christians by Robin Lane Fox
0.852 4.38 Arabic-English Dictionary: The Hans Wehr Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic by Hans Wehr
0.851 3.71 The Penguin Dictionary of Saints by Donald Attwater
0.85 3.74 The Sistine Secrets: Michelangelo's Forbidden Messages in the Heart of the Vatican by Benjamin Blech
0.844 3.95 Treatise on Law by Thomas Aquinas
0.843 4.04 The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity: Twelve Lectures by Jürgen Habermas
0.839 3.85 Chomp by Carl Hiaasen
0.839 3.65 Paradise Screwed: Selected Columns of Carl Hiaasen by Carl Hiaasen
0.838 3.81 Gospel of Luke: A Commentary on the Greek Text (New International Greek Testament Commentary) by I. Howard Marshall
0.837 4.24 Paradise Lost [Norton Critical Edition] by John Milton
0.835 3.87 The Orthodox Corruption of Scripture: The Effect of Early Christological Controversies on the Text of the New Testament by Bart D. Ehrman
0.835 3.86 The Weaker Vessel by Antonia Fraser
0.835 3.85 Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture, New Testament II: Mark (Vol 2) by Thomas C. Oden
0.832 4.19 Charity in Truth: Caritas in Veritate by Pope Benedict XVI
0.83 3.63 Basket Case by Carl Hiaasen
0.829 3.81 The rise of Christianity by W. H. C. Frend
0.827 4.03 The Misunderstood Jew: The Church and the Scandal of the Jewish Jesus by Amy-Jill Levine
0.826 4.31 The Text of the New Testament by Bruce M. Metzger
0.822 4.34 On the Apostolic Preaching by Irenaeus of Lyons
0.812 4.3 The Cost of Discipleship by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
0.812 3.67 Native Tongue by Carl Hiaasen
0.81 3.69 The Gospel According to St. Luke: An Introduction and Commentary (Tyndale New Testament Commentaries) by Leon Morris
0.805 3.66 Lucky You by Carl Hiaasen
0.801 4.43 Complete Jewish Bible : an English version of the Tanakh (Old Testament) and B'rit Hadashah (New Testament) by David H. Stern
0.8 3.95 Incredible Shrinking Son of Man: How Reliable Is the Gospel Tradition? by Robert M. Price
0.8 4.24 The New Oxford Annotated Bible with the Apocrypha, Revised Standard Version, Expanded Edition (Hardcover 8910A) by Herbert G. May
0.793 4.09 The Social Animal by Elliot Aronson
0.792 4.35 Symbols of Transformation by C. G. Jung
0.79 4.2 A History of Christian Thought by Paul Tillich
0.778 3.68 Acts (Tyndale New Testament Commentaries) by I. Howard Marshall
0.775 4 The Forgotten Desert Mothers: Sayings, Lives, and Stories of Early Christian Women by Laura Swan
0.774 4.17 An Introduction to the New Testament by D. A. Carson
0.774 3.64 Kick Ass: Selected Columns of Carl Hiaasen by Carl Hiaasen
0.774 3.73 Double Whammy by Carl Hiaasen
0.759 4.52 The Ante-Nicene Fathers [10-volume set] by Alexander Roberts
0.751 4.41 The Stripping of the Altars: Traditional Religion in England, 1400-1580 by Eamon Duffy
0.746 4.41 The Book of Concord: The Confessions of the Evangelical Lutheran Church by Theodore G. Tappert
0.742 4.09 Into That Darkness: From Mercy Killing to Mass Murder by Gitta Sereny
0.738 3.68 Terror in the Name of God: Why Religious Militants Kill by Jessica Stern
0.732 4.31 C.S. Lewis's Mere Christianity (Shepherd's Notes) by Terry L. Miethe
0.73 4.47 For the Life of the World: Sacraments and Orthodoxy by Aleksandr Shmeman
0.729 4.34 Gregory of Nyssa: The Life of Moses by Gregory of Nyssa
0.728 4.39 Synopsis of the Four Gospels by Kurt Aland
0.726 4.33 Baking Illustrated by Cook's Illustrated Magazine Editors
0.726 4.18 New Testament Introduction by Donald Guthrie
0.725 4.38 John Climacus : the ladder of divine ascent by John Climacus
0.723 3.97 Greek Drama (Bantam Classics) by Moses Hadas
0.707 4.45 The Christian Tradition: A History of the Development of Doctrine, Volume 1: The Emergence of the Catholic Tradition (100-600) by Jaroslav Pelikan
0.696 4.35 Jesus and Judaism by E. P. Sanders
0.689 4.53 The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics by C. S. Lewis
0.653 4.24 An Introduction to the New Testament (Anchor Bible Reference Library) by Raymond E. Brown
0.65 4.55 Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, First Series, 14 Volumes by Philip Schaff
0.65 4.42 Great Lent: Journey to Pascha by Alexander Schmemann
0.642 4.36 The Art of Prayer: An Orthodox Anthology by Igumen Chariton
0.623 4.22 The Oxford Dictionary of Popes by J. N. D. Kelly
0.617 4.4 Sex and the Supremacy of Christ by John Piper
0.613 4.69 The Torah, a Modern Commentary by W. Gunther Plaut
0.609 4.51 The Epistle to the Romans by Douglas J. Moo
0.583 4.56 The Elements of Pop-Up: A Pop-Up Book for Aspiring Paper Engineers by David A. Carter
0.581 4.68 Garner's Modern American Usage by Bryan A. Garner
0.569 4.36 The Nag Hammadi Library in English, Fourth Revised Edition by James M. Robinson