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Kiss the Girls (Alex Cross, #2)
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avg rating 4.01 — 360,587 ratings — published 1994
Along Came a Spider (Alex Cross, #1)
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avg rating 4.13 — 502,333 ratings — published 1993
Cat & Mouse (Alex Cross, #4)
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avg rating 4.05 — 85,851 ratings — published 1997
Four Blind Mice (Alex Cross, #8)
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avg rating 4.06 — 60,327 ratings — published 2002
Roses Are Red (Alex Cross, #6)
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avg rating 4.11 — 79,267 ratings — published 2000
Violets Are Blue (Alex Cross, #7)
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avg rating 4.02 — 73,818 ratings — published 2001
Jack & Jill (Alex Cross, #3)
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avg rating 4.02 — 94,293 ratings — published 1996
Cross (Alex Cross, #12)
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avg rating 4.06 — 74,804 ratings — published 2006
The Big Bad Wolf (Alex Cross, #9)
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avg rating 4.04 — 64,800 ratings — published 2003
I, Alex Cross (Alex Cross, #16)
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avg rating 4.06 — 50,945 ratings — published 2009
Mary, Mary (Alex Cross, #11)
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avg rating 4.02 — 63,723 ratings — published 2005
Double Cross (Alex Cross, #13)
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avg rating 4.05 — 59,220 ratings — published 2007
London Bridges (Alex Cross, #10)
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avg rating 3.98 — 57,934 ratings — published 2004
Pop Goes the Weasel (Alex Cross, #5)
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avg rating 4.06 — 79,545 ratings — published 1999
Cross Fire (Alex Cross, #17)
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avg rating 4.13 — 40,583 ratings — published 2010
Cross Country (Alex Cross, #14)
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avg rating 3.90 — 47,626 ratings — published 2008
Alex Cross's Trial (Alex Cross, #15)
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avg rating 4.01 — 33,512 ratings — published 2009
Kill Alex Cross (Alex Cross, #18)
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avg rating 4.08 — 41,124 ratings — published 2011
Alex Cross, Run (Alex Cross, #20)
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avg rating 4.12 — 35,859 ratings — published 2013
Hope to Die (Alex Cross, #22)
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avg rating 4.23 — 34,204 ratings — published 2014
Merry Christmas, Alex Cross (Alex Cross, #19)
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avg rating 3.94 — 33,041 ratings — published 2012
Cross My Heart (Alex Cross, #21)
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avg rating 4.13 — 30,355 ratings — published 2013
Cross the Line (Alex Cross, #24)
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avg rating 4.10 — 31,085 ratings — published 2016
Cross Justice (Alex Cross, #23)
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avg rating 4.27 — 35,327 ratings — published 2015
Target: Alex Cross (Alex Cross, #26)
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avg rating 4.13 — 28,397 ratings — published 2018
Deadly Cross (Alex Cross, #28)
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avg rating 4.27 — 32,715 ratings — published 2020
Criss Cross (Alex Cross, #27)
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avg rating 4.25 — 28,060 ratings — published 2019
The People vs. Alex Cross (Alex Cross, #25)
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avg rating 4.25 — 28,865 ratings — published 2017
Fear No Evil (Alex Cross, #29)
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avg rating 4.27 — 29,364 ratings — published 2021
Alex Cross Must Die (Alex Cross, #32)
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avg rating 4.26 — 23,723 ratings — published 2023
Cross Kill (Alex Cross, #24.4)
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avg rating 3.95 — 13,794 ratings — published 2016
The House of Cross (Alex Cross, #33)
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avg rating 4.35 — 27,689 ratings — published
Cross Down (Alex Cross, #31)
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avg rating 4.39 — 26,733 ratings — published 2023
Triple Cross (Alex Cross, #30)
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avg rating 4.37 — 32,759 ratings — published 2022
Detective Cross (Alex Cross, #24.5)
by (shelved 11 times as cross)
avg rating 4.12 — 12,369 ratings — published 2017
Return of the Spider (Alex Cross, #34)
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avg rating 4.25 — 23,482 ratings — published 2025
The Cross of Christ (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.29 — 12,710 ratings — published 1986
Cross and Sampson (Alex Cross, #35)
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avg rating 4.40 — 18,783 ratings — published 2026
Bared to You (Crossfire, #1)
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avg rating 4.12 — 557,463 ratings — published 2012
Major Pettigrew's Last Stand (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.90 — 147,263 ratings — published 2010
Death by Love: Letters from the Cross (Re:Lit:Vintage Jesus)
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avg rating 4.02 — 2,560 ratings — published 2008
Living the Cross Centered Life: Keeping the Gospel the Main Thing (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.18 — 5,457 ratings — published 2002
He Chose the Nails: What God Did to Win Your Heart (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.41 — 28,597 ratings — published 2000
Entwined with You (Crossfire, #3)
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avg rating 4.18 — 224,766 ratings — published 2013
Cross my heart: Beast and Demon. Part 1 (ebook)
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avg rating 4.63 — 270 ratings — published
Triple Homicide (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.94 — 6,291 ratings — published 2018
Ali Cross (Ali Cross, #1)
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avg rating 4.01 — 14,059 ratings — published 2019
The Cost of Discipleship (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.29 — 52,413 ratings — published 1937
The Cross and the Lynching Tree (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.50 — 6,724 ratings — published 2011
The Passion of Jesus Christ (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.20 — 9,051 ratings — published
“As sinners we are like addicts - addicted to ourselves and our own projects. The theology of glory simply seeks to give those projects eternal legitimacy. The remedy for the theology of glory, therefore, cannot be encouragement and positive thinking, but rather the end of the addictive desire. Luther says it directly: "The remedy for curing desire does not lie in satisfying it, but in extinguishing it." So we are back to the cross, the radical intervention, end of the life of the old and the beginning of the new.
Since the theology of glory is like addiction and not abstract doctrine, it is a temptation over which we have no control in and of ourselves, and from which we must be saved. As with the addict, mere exhortation and optimistic encouragement will do no good. It may be intended to build up character and self-esteem, but when the addict realizes the impossibility of quitting, self-esteem degenerates all the more. The alcoholic will only take to drinking in secret, trying to put on the facade of sobriety. As theologians of glory we do much the same. We put on a facade of religious propriety and piety and try to hide or explain away or coddle our sins....
As with the addict there has to be an intervention, an act from without. In treatment of alcoholics some would speak of the necessity of 'bottoming out,' reaching the absolute bottom where one can no longer escape the need for help. Then it is finally evident that the desire can never be satisfied, but must be extinguished. In matters of faith, the preaching of the cross is analogous to that intervention. It is an act of God, entirely from without. It does not come to feed the religious desires of the Old Adam and Eve but to extinguish them. They are crucified with Christ to be made new.”
― On Being a Theologian of the Cross: Reflections on Luther's Heidelberg Disputation, 1518
Since the theology of glory is like addiction and not abstract doctrine, it is a temptation over which we have no control in and of ourselves, and from which we must be saved. As with the addict, mere exhortation and optimistic encouragement will do no good. It may be intended to build up character and self-esteem, but when the addict realizes the impossibility of quitting, self-esteem degenerates all the more. The alcoholic will only take to drinking in secret, trying to put on the facade of sobriety. As theologians of glory we do much the same. We put on a facade of religious propriety and piety and try to hide or explain away or coddle our sins....
As with the addict there has to be an intervention, an act from without. In treatment of alcoholics some would speak of the necessity of 'bottoming out,' reaching the absolute bottom where one can no longer escape the need for help. Then it is finally evident that the desire can never be satisfied, but must be extinguished. In matters of faith, the preaching of the cross is analogous to that intervention. It is an act of God, entirely from without. It does not come to feed the religious desires of the Old Adam and Eve but to extinguish them. They are crucified with Christ to be made new.”
― On Being a Theologian of the Cross: Reflections on Luther's Heidelberg Disputation, 1518
“God Hold us to that which drew us first, when the Cross was the attraction, and we wanted nothing else.”
― God's Missionary
― God's Missionary
