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Thomas Hopko · 1983 · Treatise
Thomas Hopko's treatise emerged from the pressing debates of the 1970s and early 1980s surrounding women's ordination, particularly as Episcopal and other Protestant churches began ordaining women to the priesthood. Writing as…
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James Barr · 1984 · Book
James Barr, a Scottish Old Testament scholar who taught at Oxford, had already written the most sustained academic assault on conservative evangelical doctrines of scripture in his 1977 study Fundamentalism. That book…
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D. A. Carson · 1984 · Book
Carson's Exegetical Fallacies emerged from his classroom experience teaching New Testament Greek and exegesis, where he repeatedly encountered the same interpretive mistakes across student papers and published commentaries. Written as both warning…
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John R. W. Stott · 1984 · Book
John Stott's comprehensive survey emerged from his conviction that evangelical Christians had withdrawn too far from serious engagement with contemporary social and political questions. Writing as both a respected biblical expositor and…
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J. I. Packer · 1984 · Book
J. I. Packer wrote this comprehensive theology of the Holy Spirit in response to the charismatic renewal movements that had swept through Protestant churches in the 1960s and 1970s. As a Reformed…
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D. A. Carson · 1984 · Commentary
D. A. Carson's commentary on Matthew emerged from the Expositor's Bible Commentary series, designed to provide pastors and serious students with rigorous exegetical scholarship accessible to those without advanced training in biblical…
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John Main · 1984 · Book
John Main's "Moment of Christ" emerged from his years of teaching Christian meditation at his monastery in Montreal, where he had established a community devoted to the ancient practice of contemplative prayer.…
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Committee on Bible Translation · 1984 · Scripture
This is the form of the New International Version that became especially dominant in evangelical use in the late twentieth century. Comprising the complete Bible, it was translated from Hebrew, Aramaic, and…
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Elisabeth Elliot · 1984 · Book
Elisabeth Elliot's Passion and Purity emerged from decades of reflection on her own romantic relationships and the questions that persistently arose from young women seeking her counsel. Writing in 1984 as a…
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Jacques Ellul · 1984 · Book
Jacques Ellul's final theological work confronts what he saw as the fundamental betrayal of Christian faith by the institutional church throughout history. Writing near the end of his career as both a…
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Transforming Vision The Transforming Vision: Shaping a Christian World View
J. Richard Middleton · 1984 · Book
The Transforming Vision emerged from J. Richard Middleton and Brian J. Walsh's concern that many Christians had absorbed secular assumptions about reality without recognizing the conflict with their faith. Writing in the…
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Winter Pascha Winter Pascha: Readings for the Christmas-Epiphany Season
Thomas Hopko · 1984 · Book
Thomas Hopko's Winter Pascha emerged from his decades of teaching and pastoral work at St. Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary, where he served as dean and professor of dogmatic theology. Writing for both…
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Gordon Fee · 1985 · Book
Gordon Fee's brief but incisive critique emerged from his unique position as both a respected New Testament scholar and a committed Pentecostal. Writing in the mid-1980s when prosperity theology was gaining significant…
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R. C. Sproul · 1985 · Book
R. C. Sproul's exploration of divine holiness emerged from his recognition that modern Christianity had largely domesticated God, reducing the Almighty to a manageable figure stripped of his fearsome transcendence. Writing as…
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Jay P. Green Sr. · 1985 · Scripture
Green's Literal Translation, also known as the Literal Translation of the Holy Bible, is an influential one-man rendering of Scripture that emphasizes close grammatical correspondence to the Hebrew and Greek. Covering the…
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Richard Foster · 1985 · Book
Richard Foster's Money, Sex and Power emerged from his observation that Christian spiritual formation literature had largely avoided the three forces that most powerfully shape human behavior and corrupt spiritual life. Writing…
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Henry Wansbrough, general editor; Catholic scholars · 1985 · Scripture
The New Jerusalem Bible is a major revision of the Jerusalem Bible of 1966, its predecessor and base translation, drawing more directly on original-language texts and incorporating updated scholarship. It is a…
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John Main · 1985 · Book
The Present Christ emerged from John Main's decades of teaching Christian meditation at his Montreal Benedictine community and the Christian Meditation Centre he founded there. A Benedictine monk who had discovered the…
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Romans Romans: An Exposition of Chapters 1-4
Martyn Lloyd-Jones · 1985 · Commentary
This exposition emerged from Lloyd-Jones's Friday evening Bible studies at Westminster Chapel in London during the 1950s and 1960s, where he systematically worked through Paul's letter to the Romans over thirteen years.…
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Tanakh JPS Tanakh / New JPS Translation
Jewish Publication Society committees · 1985 · Scripture
The New JPS Translation is an entirely new rendering of the Hebrew Bible, or Tanakh, produced by the Jewish Publication Society and completed over the course of more than two decades. Translated…
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Theo-Logic Theo-Logic: Theological Logical Theory
Hans Urs von Balthasar · 1985–1987 · Treatise
Theo-Logic represents Hans Urs von Balthasar's monumental attempt to articulate a distinctly theological logic, completing his theological trilogy that began with The Glory of the Lord and continued with Theo-Drama. Writing in…
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R. C. Sproul · 1986 · Book
R. C. Sproul wrote this theological primer in response to what he saw as widespread confusion and hostility toward the doctrine of predestination within evangelical Christianity. Published in 1986 during his tenure…
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Martyn Lloyd-Jones · 1986 · Book
The Cross emerged from Martyn Lloyd-Jones's expository preaching ministry at Westminster Chapel in London, where he served as minister from 1943 to 1968. Drawing from his deep conviction that the centrality of…
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John R. W. Stott · 1986 · Book
John Stott's comprehensive theological study emerged from his conviction that evangelical Christianity had lost sight of the centrality of Christ's crucifixion. Writing as both pastor and scholar, Stott observed that modern preaching…
