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The Problem of Pain by C. S. Lewis reads as contemplative, intellectual. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.

God in the dock cover
God in the dock
C. S. Lewis · 1970
Shares the faith thread
72% genome match
Rome sweet home cover
Rome sweet home
Scott Hahn · 1993
Shares the faith thread
69% genome match
Correspondence cover
Correspondence
Saint Bernard of Clairvaux · 1494
Shares the faith thread
69% genome match
Christian letters to a post-Christian world cover
Christian letters to a post-Christian world
Dorothy L. Sayers · 1969
Shares the faith thread
72% genome match
The Humor of Christ cover
The Humor of Christ
Elton Trueblood · 1964
Shares the faith thread
69% genome match
Essays, critical and historical cover
Essays, critical and historical
John Henry Newman · 1800
Shares the faith thread
69% genome match
Summa Theologica cover
Summa Theologica
Thomas Aquinas · 1467
Shares the faith thread
69% genome match
Confessions cover
Confessions
Augustine of Hippo · 1482
Shares the faith thread
69% genome match
The Orthodox way cover
The Orthodox way
Kallistos Bishop of Diokleia · 1979
Shares the faith thread
69% genome match
On the Bible cover
On the Bible
Martin Buber · 1968
Shares the faith thread
72% genome match
Intimations of Christianity among the ancient Greeks cover
Intimations of Christianity among the ancient Greeks
Simone Weil · 1957
Shares the faith thread
69% genome match
Man is not alone cover
Man is not alone
Abraham Joshua Heschel · 1951
Shares the faith thread
69% genome match

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