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J. I. Packer · 1961 · Book
Evangelism and the Sovereignty of God emerged from J. I. Packer's lectures at Westminster Chapel in London, addressing a theological tension that had long troubled evangelical Christians. The book tackles what many…
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Frank Laubach · 1961 · Book
Frank Laubach's Game with Minutes emerged from his decades of missionary work in the Philippines and his ongoing experiments with what he called "practicing the presence of God." Writing in 1961 near…
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Glory of the Lord The Glory of the Lord: A Theological Aesthetics
Hans Urs von Balthasar · 1961–1969 · Treatise
Hans Urs von Balthasar's seven-volume theological aesthetics emerged from his conviction that modern theology had abandoned beauty as a fundamental category for understanding divine revelation. Writing across the turbulent 1960s as the…
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C. S. Lewis · 1961 · Book
A Grief Observed is C. S. Lewis's raw and unflinching record of his experience following the death of his wife, Joy Davidman, from bone cancer in 1960. Written in four school exercise…
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A. W. Tozer · 1961 · Book
A. W. Tozer wrote The Knowledge of the Holy out of alarm at what he saw as the diminished vision of God pervading mid-twentieth-century evangelicalism. Published in 1961, this work emerged from…
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Joint committee of British churches and scholars · 1961 · Scripture
The New English Bible was the first major British ecumenical undertaking to offer a wholly fresh translation of scripture, intended to replace rather than merely revise the King James tradition that had…
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Thomas Merton · 1961 · Book
Thomas Merton's The New Man emerged from his deepening contemplative practice at Gethsemani Abbey in the late 1950s, written as he grappled with questions of human transformation and spiritual maturity that had…
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Thomas Merton · 1961 · Book
Thomas Merton's New Seeds of Contemplation emerged from his deepening understanding of contemplative prayer and mystical theology during his mature years as a Trappist monk at Gethsemani Abbey. First published in 1961,…
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Theophan (Fan) Noli · 1961 · Scripture
An unusual English rendering of the New Testament prepared by Fan Noli, the Albanian Orthodox bishop, statesman and translator who was also known for putting Orthodox liturgical texts into Albanian and for…
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Elisabeth Elliot · 1961 · Book
Elisabeth Elliot's account emerges from one of the most shocking missionary martyrdoms of the twentieth century. When her husband Jim Elliot and four other American missionaries were killed by Huaorani warriors in…
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James Barr · 1961 · Book
James Barr's groundbreaking study emerged from his growing concern about widespread misunderstandings of how Hebrew and Greek words function in biblical texts. Writing as a scholar of Semitic languages at Edinburgh, Barr…
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Watchman Nee · 1961 · Book
What Shall This Man Do? emerges from Watchman Nee's pastoral concern for individual believers struggling to understand their place within God's larger purposes for the church. Originally delivered as spoken ministry to…
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Oswald Chambers · 1962 · Book
Biblical Psychology emerged from Oswald Chambers' teaching at the Bible Training College in London during the early twentieth century, where he served as principal from 1911 until his departure for Egypt in…
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James Barr · 1962 · Book
James Barr's Biblical Words for Time appeared in 1962 as a sequel to his The Semantics of Biblical Language of the previous year, and it was written against a specific and then-dominant…
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Cornelius Van Til · 1962 · Book
Christianity and Barthianism emerged from Cornelius Van Til's decades-long engagement with Karl Barth's theological revolution. Writing from his position at Westminster Theological Seminary, Van Til produced this systematic critique as Barth's influence…
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Karl Barth · 1962 · Book
Karl Barth's introduction to evangelical theology emerged from his final lecture series at the University of Basel in 1961-62, delivered as his academic career drew to a close. Having spent decades reshaping…
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A. W. Pink · 1962 · Commentary
Arthur Pink's extensive commentary on Exodus emerged from his pastoral conviction that modern Christians had lost touch with the rich typological treasures embedded in the Old Testament. Writing during his later years…
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Josef Pieper · 1962 · Book
Josef Pieper's Guide to Thomas Aquinas emerged from the German philosopher's conviction that the medieval doctor's thought had been systematically misunderstood by both admirers and critics. Writing in the early 1960s amid…
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Watchman Nee · 1962 · Book
The Normal Christian Church Life emerged from Watchman Nee's conviction that the institutional Christianity of his day had departed from the New Testament pattern of church life. Writing from his experience leading…
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John Meyendorff · 1962 · Book
John Meyendorff wrote this comprehensive introduction to Eastern Orthodox Christianity during the Cold War era, when Western understanding of Orthodoxy remained limited despite its significance as the second-largest Christian communion. As a…
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Leonard Ravenhill · 1962 · Book
Leonard Ravenhill's Revival Praying emerged from his decades of observation that the Western church had settled into comfortable mediocrity while genuine spiritual awakening remained elusive. Writing in 1962 as both an evangelist…
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Dumitru Staniloae · 1962 · Book
Dumitru Staniloae's comprehensive study of Maximus the Confessor emerged from his broader project to recover and systematize the theological heritage of the Eastern Orthodox tradition for twentieth-century believers. Writing during the communist…
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Alpha and Omega Alpha and Omega: A Study in the Theology of Karl Barth
Robert Jenson · 1963 · Book
Robert Jenson's first major theological work emerged from his doctoral studies at the University of Heidelberg under Peter Brunner, where he grappled with Karl Barth's revolutionary reconceptualization of Christian doctrine. Writing in…
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Josef Pieper · 1963 · Book
Josef Pieper's philosophical investigation of belief emerges from his lifelong engagement with Thomas Aquinas and his concern that modern thought had severed faith from reason. Writing in postwar Germany, Pieper addressed a…
