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Amy Carmichael · 1906 · Book
Amy Carmichael's "Overweights of Joy" emerged from her early years of missionary service in India, written during a period of intense spiritual testing and physical hardship. The title draws from 2 Corinthians…
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Alexander Maclaren · 1906 · Book
This collection gathers some of Alexander Maclaren's most penetrating sermons from his decades-long ministry at Union Chapel in Manchester, where he served from 1858 to 1903. Maclaren was widely regarded as the…
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E. M. Bounds · 1907–1931 · Book
Edward McKendree Bounds wrote prolifically about prayer during his ministry as a Methodist pastor in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, but most of his prayer writings were published posthumously by…
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E. M. Bounds · 1907 · Book
E. M. Bounds wrote this compact treatise on ministerial prayer during his final years as a Methodist preacher and writer, drawing from decades of pastoral experience in the American South and Midwest.…
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René Bazin · 1907 · Book
Le Blé qui lève is a novel of the French countryside published in 1907 by René Bazin, a professor of law at the Catholic University of Angers who had been elected to…
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G. K. Chesterton · 1908 · Book
G. K. Chesterton's The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare emerged from the author's own struggles with doubt and despair during his young adulthood in fin de siècle London. Published in 1908,…
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G. K. Chesterton · 1908 · Book
Orthodoxy emerged from Chesterton's response to critics of his earlier work Heretics, who challenged him to articulate not merely what was wrong with modern thought but what positive alternative he proposed. Writing…
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A. T. Robertson · 1908 · Book
A. T. Robertson's "A Short Grammar of the Greek New Testament" emerged from the pressing need for an accessible yet rigorous introduction to Koine Greek for students of the New Testament. In…
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Ten Years After Ten Years After: A Sequel to Ten Years of My Life in the Service of the Book Fund
Susanna Spurgeon · 1908 · Book
This sequel to Susanna Spurgeon's earlier memoir continues the account of her remarkable ministry distributing theological books to pastors who could not afford them. Following her husband Charles Spurgeon's death in 1892,…
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G. K. Chesterton · 1909 · Book
The Ball and the Cross emerged from Chesterton's concern with the polarized secularism and religious sentiment of Edwardian England, where public discourse had grown increasingly shrill and abstract. Originally serialized in The…
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Charles de Foucauld · 1909 · Treatise
In 1909 Charles de Foucauld was living alone at Tamanrasset, in the Hoggar mountains of the central Sahara, and writing a rule of life for a religious family that had no members.…
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Amy Carmichael · 1909 · Book
Amy Carmichael's Lotus Buds emerged from her shocking discovery of the devadasi system in South India, where young girls were dedicated to Hindu temples and subjected to religious prostitution. Writing from the…
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Alexander Whyte · 1909 · Book
Alexander Whyte's biographical study of Thomas Shepard emerges from the Scottish preacher's deep admiration for the Puritan tradition and his desire to introduce early twentieth-century readers to one of New England's most…
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G. K. Chesterton · 1909 · Book
Tremendous Trifles gathers thirty-nine brief essays that G. K. Chesterton originally published in the Daily News between 1904 and 1908. Writing for a general newspaper audience, Chesterton transformed everyday observations—about chalk, lamp-posts,…
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E. M. Bounds · 1910 · Book
Power Through Prayer emerged from E. M. Bounds' decades of pastoral ministry and his conviction that the modern church had lost sight of prayer as the essential foundation of all Christian work.…
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G. K. Chesterton · 1910 · Book
G. K. Chesterton's explosive social manifesto emerged from his frustration with both progressive reformers and conservative defenders of the status quo in Edwardian England. Writing in 1910 as debates raged over women's…
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G. K. Chesterton · 1911 · Book
G. K. Chesterton's first collection of detective stories introduces Father Brown, a quiet Catholic priest whose unassuming manner conceals profound insight into human nature and the criminal mind. Published in 1911, these…
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Evelyn Underhill · 1911 · Book
Evelyn Underhill's comprehensive study emerged from her own spiritual searching and the early twentieth century's hunger for authentic religious experience amid increasing secularization. Writing as a laywoman in the Anglican tradition, Underhill…
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Baptist scholars · 1912 · Scripture
The American Baptist Improved Bible and New Testament continued nineteenth-century Baptist efforts to revise the English Scriptures directly from the Greek. Conceived as both a New Testament and a full Bible revision,…
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Sergei Bulgakov · 1912 · Treatise
Sergei Bulgakov's Philosophy of Economy emerged from his transformation from Marxist economist to Orthodox theologian in early twentieth-century Russia. Written during his academic career at Moscow University, this treatise represents Bulgakov's attempt…
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James Moffatt · 1913 · Scripture
The Moffatt Bible, the work of the Scottish biblical scholar James Moffatt, is a highly influential modern-speech translation that broke strongly with the diction of the King James Version. Produced in the…
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Evelyn Underhill · 1913 · Book
Evelyn Underhill wrote The Mystic Way as a psychological and philosophical study of Christian mystical experience, building on her groundbreaking work Mysticism published three years earlier. Where her previous book had surveyed…
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E. M. Bounds · 1913 · Book
E. M. Bounds wrote this brief but intense treatise on prayer during his final years of ministry, drawing from decades of pastoral experience in the Methodist tradition and his service as a…
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Alexander Whyte · 1913 · Book
Alexander Whyte's "Thirteen Appreciations" emerged from his lifelong practice of finding spiritual instruction in the lives and writings of diverse Christian figures. As principal of New College, Edinburgh, and one of Scotland's…
