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Oliver O'Donovan · 1980 · Book
Oliver O'Donovan's study emerged from the recognition that Augustine's treatment of self-love presents interpreters with a genuine puzzle. While Augustine consistently condemns self-love as the root of sin and the fundamental opposition…
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John Paul II · 1980 · Letter
Dives in Misericordia is Pope John Paul II's second encyclical letter, issued in 1980 during the second year of his pontificate. Written amid the Cold War tensions and global upheavals of the…
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James Barr · 1980 · Book
A collection of essays and lectures by James Barr, Oriel Professor of the Interpretation of Holy Scripture at Oxford, gathered in 1980 in the wake of his combative study Fundamentalism (1977). Barr,…
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Dumitru Staniloae · 1980 · Book
This collection of theological essays emerges from Dumitru Stăniloae's decades of scholarly engagement with the intersection of Eastern Orthodox tradition and contemporary theological questions. Writing as one of the most influential Romanian…
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Bernard Lonergan · 1980 · Book
Understanding and Being emerged from a series of lectures Bernard Lonergan delivered at Halifax in the summer of 1958, designed to make accessible the dense philosophical framework he had developed in his…
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John Main · 1980 · Book
Word into Silence represents John Main's foundational teaching on Christian meditation, emerging from his discovery of an ancient practice that had been largely forgotten in the Western church. Main, a Benedictine monk,…
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John Meyendorff · 1981 · Book
John Meyendorff's historical study examines the complex ecclesiastical and political relationships between the Byzantine Empire and emerging Russia from the tenth through fifteenth centuries. Written by one of the foremost Orthodox theologians…
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Francis Schaeffer · 1981 · Book
Francis Schaeffer's final book emerged from his growing alarm at what he saw as the systematic removal of Christian influence from American public life. Writing in 1981 as the secularization of education,…
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D. A. Carson · 1981 · Book
Carson's theological treatise emerged from the persistent tension that has divided Christian thinkers for centuries: how can God be absolutely sovereign over all things while humans remain genuinely responsible for their choices?…
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Richard Foster · 1981 · Book
Richard Foster's Freedom of Simplicity emerged from his observation that American Christians in the late twentieth century were trapped between two destructive extremes: the prosperity gospel that baptized materialism, and a legalistic…
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J. I. Packer · 1981 · Book
J.I. Packer's God's Words emerged from his growing concern about evangelical confusion over Scripture's nature and authority during the theological upheavals of the 1960s and 1970s. As debates over inerrancy intensified and…
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Gordon Fee · 1981 · Book
Gordon Fee's hermeneutical handbook emerged from his years teaching biblical interpretation to seminary students and pastors who struggled to move responsibly from ancient text to contemporary application. Writing for evangelical readers committed…
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John Paul II · 1981 · Letter
Laborem Exercens (On Human Work) stands as John Paul II's third encyclical, issued in 1981 on the ninetieth anniversary of Leo XIII's Rerum Novarum. Written during a period of global economic upheaval…
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John Paul II · 1981 · Letter
Familiaris Consortio is Pope John Paul II's 1981 apostolic exhortation on the role of the Christian family in the modern world. Written following the 1980 Synod of Bishops dedicated to family life,…
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Henri Nouwen · 1981 · Book
Henri Nouwen's The Way of the Heart emerged from his sabbatical year at the Abbey of the Genesee in upstate New York, where the celebrated pastor and psychologist stepped away from his…
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All the Fulness of God All the Fulness of God: Essays on Orthodoxy, Ecumenism and Modern Society
Thomas Hopko · 1982 · Book
This collection of essays emerged from Thomas Hopko's dual vocation as a priest and theologian during a period of intensified ecumenical dialogue in the late twentieth century. Writing as Dean of St.…
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John R. W. Stott · 1982 · Book
Between Two Worlds emerged from John Stott's decades of preaching experience and his growing concern that the Christian pulpit had lost its way. Writing in the early 1980s, Stott observed a crisis…
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I. Howard Marshall · 1982 · Book
I. Howard Marshall's Biblical Inspiration emerged during a period of intense evangelical debate over the nature of Scripture's authority in the 1970s and early 1980s. The controversy centered on whether biblical inerrancy…
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Discipline Discipline: The Glad Surrender
Elisabeth Elliot · 1982 · Book
Elisabeth Elliot's "Discipline: The Glad Surrender" emerged from her decades of experience as a missionary widow, single mother, and spiritual mentor who had learned costly lessons about obedience through profound loss and…
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Yves Congar · 1982 · Book
Diversités et communion emerged from Yves Congar's decades of engagement with the question of Christian unity, written as the French Dominican theologian reflected on the achievements and remaining challenges following the Second…
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F. F. Bruce · 1982 · Commentary
F. F. Bruce's commentary on Galatians represents the mature scholarship of one of the twentieth century's most respected evangelical biblical scholars. Writing in the New International Greek Testament Commentary series, Bruce brought…
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Edward Fudge · 1982 · Book
Edward Fudge's comprehensive biblical study emerged from his wrestling with traditional evangelical doctrine about hell and eternal punishment. A Churches of Christ preacher and biblical scholar, Fudge undertook an exhaustive examination of…
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Andrew Walls · 1982 · Essay
Andrew Walls wrote this essay for Missionalia in 1982, the same year he founded the Centre for the Study of Christianity in the Non-Western World at Aberdeen. He came to the question…
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Lesslie Newbigin · 1982 · Commentary
Lesslie Newbigin wrote this exposition of John's Gospel during his final years as a missionary in South India, drawing on decades of cross-cultural ministry and theological reflection. Published in 1982, the commentary…
