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James Barr · 1968 · Book
A technical monograph by James Barr, then Professor of Semitic Languages and Literatures at Manchester, published in 1968. It was written into a specific scholarly moment. The recovery of Ugaritic in the…
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Clarence Jordan · 1968 · Commentary
The Cotton Patch Version of Paul's Epistles emerged from Clarence Jordan's radical experiment in Christian community at Koinonia Farm in rural Georgia during the height of the civil rights era. As founder…
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Josef Pieper · 1968 · Book
Josef Pieper's "Death and Immortality" emerged from his lifelong engagement with Thomas Aquinas and the challenge of articulating perennial Christian truths to a modern audience increasingly skeptical of traditional metaphysics. Writing in…
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Francis Schaeffer · 1968 · Book
Francis Schaeffer wrote this philosophical analysis in 1968 as part of his broader effort to diagnose what he saw as the intellectual and spiritual crisis of Western civilization. Working from his L'Abri…
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Francis Schaeffer · 1968 · Book
Francis Schaeffer wrote The God Who Is There as a comprehensive response to what he saw as the philosophical crisis engulfing Western civilization in the 1960s. Drawing from his experience establishing L'Abri…
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Watchman Nee · 1968 · Book
Watchman Nee wrote this meditation on Christian separation from worldliness during his final imprisonment under the Communist regime in China, though it was not published until after his death in 1972. The…
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Yves Congar · 1968 · Book
Yves Congar's ecclesiological study emerges from his lifelong commitment to understanding the Church's self-understanding across history. Writing in the midst of post-Vatican II theological ferment, Congar turned his attention to the formative…
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Thomas Merton · 1968 · Book
Published near the end of Merton's life, this collection of essays represents the Trappist monk's sustained engagement with Zen Buddhism during the 1960s, a period when few Western Christians were seriously exploring…
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John Meyendorff · 1969 · Book
John Meyendorff's Christ in Eastern Christian Thought emerged from his conviction that Western Christianity had developed in relative isolation from the rich christological heritage of the Eastern Orthodox tradition. Writing as both…
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Cornelius Van Til · 1969 · Book
Van Til's systematic exposition of presuppositional apologetics emerged from decades of teaching at Westminster Theological Seminary and his conviction that traditional Christian apologetics had conceded too much ground to secular philosophy. Writing…
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Thomas Merton · 1969 · Book
Thomas Merton's final book on prayer emerged from his mature understanding of contemplative spirituality, written in the last years before his death in 1968. The work synthesizes decades of monastic experience at…
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Clarence Jordan · 1969 · Commentary
The Cotton Patch Version of Luke and Acts is Clarence Jordan's radical translation of these New Testament books into the vernacular and social context of the twentieth-century American South. Jordan, a Southern…
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Lesslie Newbigin · 1969 · Book
Lesslie Newbigin's The Finality of Christ emerged from his decades as a missionary in India and his deep involvement in the World Council of Churches during the 1960s, when Christianity's relationship to…
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God after God God after God: The God of the Past and the God of the Future, Seen in the Work of Karl Barth
Robert Jenson · 1969 · Book
Robert Jenson's theological debut emerged from the intellectual ferment of the late 1960s, when the "death of God" theology had declared traditional theism obsolete and many theologians sought new ways to speak…
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Alexander Schmemann · 1969 · Book
Great Lent emerged from Alexander Schmemann's pastoral concern that Orthodox Christians in America had lost touch with the deep spiritual rhythms of their tradition. Writing as dean of St. Vladimir's Orthodox Theological…
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Knowledge of Things Hoped For The Knowledge of Things Hoped For: The Sense of Theological Discourse
Robert Jenson · 1969 · Book
Robert Jenson's first major theological work emerged from his wrestling with the crisis of theological language in the late 1960s. Writing as a young Lutheran theologian trained in both European and American…
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Berkeley Version revision committee · 1969 · Scripture
The Modern Language Bible is a substantial revision and renaming of the Berkeley Version, the mid-twentieth-century English translation completed in 1959, which serves as its predecessor and base translation. It covers the…
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1969 · Scripture
The New Life Version stands among the earlier English Bibles deliberately produced with a very small, controlled vocabulary, prepared with readers in mind who are learning English or who have limited literacy.…
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F. F. Bruce · 1969 · Book
F. F. Bruce's New Testament History emerged from the evangelical scholar's conviction that the New Testament documents, properly understood, provide reliable historical testimony about first-century Palestine and the early Christian movement. Writing…
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Thomas Torrance · 1969 · Book
Thomas Torrance's Space, Time and Incarnation emerged from his conviction that theology had failed to grapple seriously with the implications of Einstein's relativity theory and modern physics for understanding the Incarnation. Writing…
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Henri de Lubac · 1969 · Book
Henri de Lubac's "La foi chrétienne" emerged from his decades of wrestling with the relationship between faith and reason in an increasingly secular age. Writing in 1969 amid the intellectual upheavals following…
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Thomas Torrance · 1969 · Book
Thomas Torrance's Theological Science emerged from his conviction that theology had become unnecessarily isolated from the natural sciences and needed methodological renewal. Writing as both a systematic theologian and someone deeply engaged…
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Jacques Ellul · 1969 · Book
Jacques Ellul wrote this theological reflection on violence during the upheavals of the 1960s, as student protests, revolutionary movements, and debates over just war theory forced Christians to grapple anew with questions…
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Anthony Bloom · 1970 · Book
Beginning to Pray emerged from Metropolitan Anthony Bloom's pastoral work with seekers and new Christians in London, where his radio broadcasts and spiritual direction had revealed the profound confusion many felt about…
