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Jean Daniélou · 1958 · Book
Jean Daniélou's Théologie du judéo-christianisme emerged from his groundbreaking work in early Christian history and his desire to recover a crucial but neglected chapter in Christianity's development. Writing in the 1950s as…
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Thomas Merton · 1958 · Book
Thomas Merton's Thoughts in Solitude emerged from his deepest period of contemplative withdrawal at the Abbey of Gethsemani, written during the 1950s as he sought greater solitude within monastic life. The work…
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Berkeley Version Berkeley Version / Modern Language Bible
Gerrit Verkuyl (NT) and later team for OT · 1959 · Scripture
A twentieth-century English rendering aimed at conservative evangelical readers, the Berkeley Version — later circulated under the title Modern Language Bible — sought to present the whole of Scripture in contemporary idiom…
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F. F. Bruce · 1959 · Essay
This scholarly essay emerged from the exciting early years of Dead Sea Scroll research, when F. F. Bruce sought to analyze how the Qumran community interpreted Hebrew Scripture. Writing just over a…
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A. W. Tozer · 1959 · Book
Born After Midnight emerged from A. W. Tozer's pastoral concern that American evangelicalism had settled into spiritual complacency during the prosperity of the 1950s. As pastor of Chicago's Southside Alliance Church and…
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Conversions Conversions: Psychological and Spiritual
Martyn Lloyd-Jones · 1959 · Book
This brief work emerged from Martyn Lloyd-Jones's concern that the rising influence of psychology in the twentieth century was creating confusion about the nature of religious conversion. As pastor of Westminster Chapel…
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Leon Morris · 1959 · Commentary
Leon Morris produced this commentary on Paul's Thessalonian correspondence as part of the New International Commentary on the New Testament series, offering evangelical scholarship a rigorous yet accessible treatment of two letters…
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John Meyendorff · 1959 · Book
Meyendorff's doctoral thesis emerged from a pressing need to rehabilitate Gregory Palamas in twentieth-century theological discourse. The fourteenth-century Byzantine theologian had been largely dismissed by Western scholars as a late-medieval obscurantist whose…
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Charles Simeon · 1959 · Book
Charles Simeon's "Let Wisdom Judge" emerges from his decades of pastoral ministry at Holy Trinity Church, Cambridge, where he served from 1782 until his death in 1836. As one of the leading…
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Henri de Lubac · 1959–1964 · Book
Henri de Lubac's monumental four-volume study emerged from his conviction that modern biblical scholarship had lost touch with the rich interpretive tradition of medieval Christianity. Writing in the decades following World War…
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Herman Dooyeweerd · 1959 · Book
Vernieuwing en Bezinning represents Herman Dooyeweerd's mature reflections on the relationship between Christian faith and philosophical inquiry, written as Reformed communities in the Netherlands grappled with rapid social and intellectual changes in…
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Martyn Lloyd-Jones · 1959 · Book
Studies in the Sermon on the Mount grew from a series of Friday evening expository sermons that Martyn Lloyd-Jones preached at Westminster Chapel in London between 1952 and 1953. Lloyd-Jones undertook this…
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Hans Urs von Balthasar · 1959 · Book
Hans Urs von Balthasar's A Theology of History emerged from his conviction that modern historical consciousness had created a crisis for Christian faith. Writing in the aftermath of two world wars and…
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Leonard Ravenhill · 1959 · Book
Leonard Ravenhill's piercing examination of mid-twentieth-century Christianity emerged from his deep frustration with what he saw as the spiritual lethargy of the Western church. Writing in 1959 as both an evangelist and…
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C. S. Lewis · 1960 · Book
C. S. Lewis wrote The Four Loves in 1960 as an exploration of human love in its various forms, drawing on both classical philosophy and Christian theology. The work emerged from Lewis's…
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Jean Daniélou · 1960 · Book
Jean Daniélou wrote this work as a systematic exploration of how the Old Testament prefigures and finds fulfillment in the New Testament, drawing on the patristic tradition of typological interpretation. Writing in…
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Herman Dooyeweerd · 1960 · Book
Herman Dooyeweerd's "In the Twilight of Western Thought" presents four lectures delivered at various American universities in the late 1950s, offering a systematic critique of Western philosophy's foundational assumptions. Writing as a…
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A. W. Tozer · 1960 · Book
Of God and Men emerged from A. W. Tozer's conviction that mid-twentieth-century American Christianity had grown dangerously comfortable with spiritual mediocrity. Writing as pastor of Chicago's Southside Alliance Church and editor of…
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Oswald Chambers · 1960 · Book
This posthumous collection gathers Oswald Chambers' theological reflections on the nature and reality of sin, compiled from his lectures and writings after his death in Egypt in 1917. Drawing from his background…
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Josef Pieper · 1960 · Book
Problems of Modern Faith emerged from Josef Pieper's lectures delivered in the late 1950s, addressing the intellectual challenges facing Christian belief in an increasingly secular age. Writing as a Thomistic philosopher deeply…
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Josef Pieper · 1960 · Book
Josef Pieper's brief but penetrating study emerges from his lifelong engagement with medieval philosophy and his concern that modern scholarship had fundamentally misunderstood the nature and achievement of scholastic thought. Writing in…
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Oswald Chambers · 1960 · Book
This collection of exposition emerged from Oswald Chambers' teaching ministry at the Bible Training College in London during the early twentieth century. Drawing from his classroom lectures on Matthew 5-7, Chambers approached…
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Dorothy Day · 1960 · Book
Dorothy Day published this life of Thérèse of Lisieux in 1960, nearly three decades into her work with the Catholic Worker movement and the houses of hospitality she had helped found with…
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Georges Florovsky · 1961 · Essay
Georges Florovsky's essay emerged from his lifelong project to articulate the distinctive theological vision of the Eastern Orthodox tradition for the modern West. Writing in the mid-twentieth century when patristic scholarship was…
