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Karl Barth · 1934 · Treatise
This brief but explosive theological treatise emerged from Karl Barth's response to his former colleague Emil Brunner's 1934 work "Nature and Grace," which argued for a limited natural theology within Reformed Christianity.…
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Oswald Chambers · 1934 · Book
The Shadow of an Agony emerged from Oswald Chambers' profound wrestling with the problem of suffering and the mystery of Christ's passion. Written during his mature ministry years, this work reflects Chambers'…
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Karl Barth · 1934 · Treatise
The Barmen Theological Declaration emerged from an emergency synod of the German Confessing Church in May 1934, as Hitler's regime pressed the German Christians movement to align the church with Nazi ideology.…
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Herman Dooyeweerd · 1935–1936 · Treatise
Herman Dooyeweerd's monumental three-volume treatise emerged from his conviction that Christian thought required a complete philosophical reconstruction rather than piecemeal engagement with secular systems. Writing as a professor of law at the…
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T. S. Eliot · 1935–1942 · Poem
Four Quartets emerged from T. S. Eliot's mature years as both poet and Anglican convert, written across seven years during a period of personal spiritual deepening and global upheaval. The four poems—"Burnt…
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T. S. Eliot · 1935 · Other
T. S. Eliot's verse drama chronicles the final days of Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, leading to his assassination in Canterbury Cathedral on December 29, 1170. Written for the Canterbury Festival of…
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Sergei Bulgakov · 1935 · Book
Sergei Bulgakov wrote this comprehensive introduction to Eastern Orthodox Christianity while serving as dean of the Orthodox Theological Institute of Saint Sergius in Paris, addressing the widespread Western ignorance of Orthodox theology…
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Catholic scholars · 1935 · Scripture
The Westminster Version of the Sacred Scriptures represents an important British Catholic move toward direct translation from the Greek rather than exclusive dependence on the Latin Vulgate, which had long served as…
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J. Gresham Machen · 1936 · Book
This collection of radio addresses emerged from J. Gresham Machen's weekly broadcasts on station WIP in Philadelphia during 1935, shortly before his death. Broadcasting to a general audience rather than seminary students…
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Herman Dooyeweerd · 1936 · Essay
Herman Dooyeweerd delivered this essay as a lecture to English-speaking audiences during the 1930s, a decade when European Christians confronted the rise of totalitarian ideologies that claimed absolute authority over human life.…
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Sergei Bulgakov · 1936 · Book
The Comforter represents the third volume of Sergei Bulgakov's ambitious theological trilogy on the Trinity, following his earlier works on the Lamb of God and the Bride of the Lamb. Writing in…
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Oswald Chambers · 1936 · Book
The Place of Help emerged from Oswald Chambers' teaching ministry at the Bible Training College in Clapham Common, London, where he served as principal from 1911 until his departure for Egypt in…
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Evelyn Underhill · 1936 · Book
Evelyn Underhill wrote this comprehensive study of Christian worship during the 1930s as the Church of England grappled with liturgical reform and as ecumenical dialogue brought different traditions into conversation. Drawing on…
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer · 1937 · Book
Written during the rise of Nazi power in Germany, The Cost of Discipleship emerged from Dietrich Bonhoeffer's dual experience as a pastor in the underground Confessing Church and director of an illegal…
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Yves Congar · 1937 · Book
Yves Congar's groundbreaking study emerged from the growing ecumenical consciousness of the 1930s, when Catholic participation in the modern ecumenical movement remained officially discouraged yet intellectually urgent. Writing as a young Dominican…
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Frank Laubach · 1937 · Letter
Frank Laubach wrote these intimate letters to his father from the remote island of Mindanao in the Philippines, where he served as a missionary among the Maranao people from 1930 to 1932.…
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A. W. Pink · 1937 · Book
Arthur Walkington Pink's exposition of the life of King David emerged from his pastoral concern that modern Christians were missing the profound spiritual lessons embedded in Old Testament narratives. Writing during the…
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Charles B. Williams · 1937 · Scripture
The Williams New Testament is a popular scholarly rendering of the New Testament, noted for bringing verbal force explicitly into English. Its scope is limited to the New Testament, translated from Greek…
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Francis Aloysius Spencer, O.P.; later editorial completion · 1937 · Scripture
The Spencer New Testament is a major American Catholic translation of the New Testament, rendered directly from the Greek in the period before the Second Vatican Council. Its scope is limited to…
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Evelyn Underhill · 1937 · Book
Evelyn Underhill's The Spiritual Life emerged from a series of retreat addresses she gave to Anglican clergy in the 1930s, during a period when she had established herself as one of England's…
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Romano Guardini · 1937 · Book
Romano Guardini's Der Herr emerged from his lectures at the University of Berlin in the 1930s, where he sought to present Christ not as a distant theological abstraction but as the living…
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Georges Florovsky · 1937 · Book
Georges Florovsky published Puti russkogo bogosloviia in Paris in 1937, writing as a patristics professor at the St. Sergius Orthodox Theological Institute, the school founded by Russian émigrés scattered west by the…
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Wisdom of God The Wisdom of God: A Brief Summary of Sophiology
Sergei Bulgakov · 1937 · Treatise
This compact theological treatise represents Sergei Bulgakov's attempt to synthesize and present his controversial doctrine of Sophia, or Divine Wisdom, to a Western audience during his years of exile in Paris. Written…
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Dorothy L. Sayers · 1937 · Other
Dorothy L. Sayers wrote this religious drama in 1937 for the Canterbury Festival, commissioned to celebrate the cathedral's spiritual and architectural heritage. The play dramatizes the life of William of Sens, the…
