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Watchman Nee · 1965 · Book
The Release of the Spirit emerged from Watchman Nee's training sessions for Christian workers in 1948 China, delivered as he prepared a generation of believers for ministry amid mounting political upheaval. Originally…
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Martyn Lloyd-Jones · 1965 · Book
Spiritual Depression emerged from a series of sermons Martyn Lloyd-Jones preached at Westminster Chapel in London during the 1950s, addressing what he observed as a widespread problem among sincere Christians: the experience…
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Henri de Lubac · 1965 · Book
Henri de Lubac's final major theological statement emerged from decades of controversy surrounding his understanding of nature and grace. Written as both clarification and culmination, this work addressed persistent misunderstandings of his…
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Thomas Torrance · 1965 · Book
Theology in Reconstruction emerged from Thomas Torrance's conviction that twentieth-century theology required fundamental methodological reform. Writing in the wake of Karl Barth's theological revolution and amid ongoing debates about natural theology, revelation,…
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Thomas Merton · 1966 · Book
Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander emerged from Thomas Merton's journal entries between 1956 and 1965, a period when the Trappist monk was grappling with his role as a contemplative in an increasingly…
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Josef Pieper · 1966 · Book
Josef Pieper's systematic examination of prudence, justice, fortitude, and temperance emerged from his broader project of recovering classical and medieval wisdom for modern ethical reflection. Writing in post-war Germany as a Catholic…
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Good News Bible Good News Translation / Today's English Version
Robert G. Bratcher and American Bible Society teams · 1966 · Scripture
A landmark functional-equivalence Bible, designed for clarity across cultures and reading levels, the Good News Translation—first known as Today's English Version—emerged from the work of the American Bible Society in the mid-twentieth…
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Lesslie Newbigin · 1966 · Book
Honest Religion for Secular Man emerged from Lesslie Newbigin's wrestling with the cultural upheaval of the 1960s, when traditional Christian faith faced unprecedented challenges from secular thought and the "honest to God"…
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Alexander Schmemann · 1966 · Book
Alexander Schmemann wrote this foundational work in liturgical theology while serving as professor and dean at St. Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary in New York. Originally delivered as lectures, the book emerged from…
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Alexander Jones, general editor; team of British Catholic scholars · 1966 · Scripture
The Jerusalem Bible was the first major postwar English Catholic Bible translated from the original languages with broad literary ambition. Covering the complete Catholic Bible, it was rendered from Hebrew, Aramaic, and…
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Anthony Bloom · 1966 · Book
Living Prayer emerges from Metropolitan Anthony Bloom's decades of pastoral work among Russian émigrés in post-war London and his radio broadcasts for the BBC Russian Service. Writing as an Orthodox monk and…
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A. W. Tozer · 1966 · Book
A. W. Tozer's final collection of essays emerged from his pastoral ministry at Southside Alliance Church in Chicago and his lifelong wrestling with the crisis of superficial Christianity in mid-twentieth-century America. Published…
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Hans Urs von Balthasar · 1966 · Book
Hans Urs von Balthasar wrote this theological meditation during the transformative years of Vatican II, as the Catholic Church grappled with its mission in the modern world. The work emerged from his…
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Oswald Chambers · 1966 · Book
The Moral Foundation of Life emerges from Oswald Chambers' conviction that modern Christianity had become dangerously detached from its ethical moorings. Writing in the early twentieth century amid theological liberalism's challenge to…
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James Barr · 1966 · Book
Published in 1966, Old and New in Interpretation is James Barr's sustained examination of how the two Testaments belong together and what it means to read them as one book. Barr, a…
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Henri de Lubac · 1966 · Book
Henri de Lubac's L'Écriture dans la Tradition emerged from the theological ferment of the 1960s as Catholic scholars grappled with questions of biblical interpretation and ecclesial authority in the wake of Vatican…
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Yves Congar · 1966 · Book
Yves Congar wrote this theological treatise in the early 1960s as the Second Vatican Council was reconsidering the Catholic Church's relationship to Scripture, tradition, and development of doctrine. The work emerged from…
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Watchman Nee · 1967 · Book
Changed Into His Likeness emerged from Watchman Nee's pastoral ministry in China during the 1930s and 1940s, addressing the practical struggles of Chinese Christians seeking to live transformed lives amid cultural upheaval…
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Alvin Plantinga · 1967 · Book
Alvin Plantinga's first major philosophical work emerged from his conviction that belief in God deserved the same rigorous philosophical treatment accorded to other fundamental questions about knowledge and reality. Writing at a…
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Josef Pieper · 1967 · Book
Hope and History emerged from Josef Pieper's philosophical wrestling with the relationship between Christian hope and human temporal existence. Writing in the 1960s amid widespread cultural upheaval and questions about progress, the…
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Koren Jerusalem Bible Koren Jerusalem Bible — English Translation
English text edited/revised by Harold Fisch · 1967 · Scripture
An important Israeli-produced Hebrew–English Tanakh whose English text is shaped for Jewish use, this edition presents the Hebrew Bible alongside a facing English rendering. Its source languages are Hebrew together with an…
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Thomas Merton · 1967 · Book
Mystics and Zen Masters emerged from Thomas Merton's deepening engagement with Eastern spirituality during the 1960s, a period when the Trappist monk was increasingly convinced that contemplative wisdom transcended religious boundaries. Writing…
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Robert Jenson · 1967 · Book
Robert Jenson's first book emerged from his doctoral dissertation at the University of Heidelberg, written during the theological ferment of the 1960s when American Christianity grappled with secularization, the "death of God"…
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Bernard Lonergan · 1967 · Book
Bernard Lonergan's Verbum represents a groundbreaking philosophical investigation into Thomas Aquinas's understanding of human knowing, emerging from Lonergan's doctoral studies and years of teaching medieval philosophy. Originally published as a series of…
