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Evelyn Underhill · 1926 · Book
Concerning the Inner Life emerged from Evelyn Underhill's mature period as a spiritual director and retreat leader, collecting addresses she delivered to clergy and lay people seeking deeper communion with God. Writing…
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Evelyn Underhill · 1927 · Book
Evelyn Underhill wrote this theological exploration during the height of her mature period as a spiritual writer, following her conversion to Anglicanism and her emergence as one of the twentieth century's foremost…
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T. S. Eliot · 1930 · Poem
T. S. Eliot's "Ash Wednesday" emerged from the poet's conversion to Anglicanism in 1927, marking his first major work written as a professed Christian. The poem takes its structure from the liturgical…
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Amy Carmichael · 1932 · Book
Amy Carmichael wrote this collection of devotional reflections during her decades of missionary work in South India, where she rescued children from temple prostitution and founded the Dohnavur Fellowship. The title captures…
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Amy Carmichael · 1932 · Book
Gold Cord is Amy Carmichael's spiritual autobiography, written after three decades of missionary work in South India. Published in 1932, it emerged from Carmichael's reflection on her calling to rescue children from…
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Evelyn Underhill · 1932 · Book
The Golden Sequence emerged from Evelyn Underhill's mature reflections on the spiritual life during her final creative period. Written in 1932, just nine years before her death, this work represents the culmination…
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C. S. Lewis · 1933 · Book
Lewis's first work of fiction after his conversion to Christianity is an allegorical pilgrimage tale written in deliberate homage to Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress. Published in 1933, three years after Lewis returned to…
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Amy Carmichael · 1933 · Book
Rose from Brier emerged from Amy Carmichael's own encounter with prolonged suffering after a fall in 1931 left her largely bedridden for the remainder of her life. Writing from her room at…
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G. K. Chesterton · 1933 · Book
G. K. Chesterton's biography of Thomas Aquinas emerged from his lifelong fascination with medieval Christianity and his conviction that the thirteenth-century Dominican had been fundamentally misunderstood by both critics and defenders. Writing…
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T. S. Eliot · 1935–1942 · Poem
Four Quartets emerged from T. S. Eliot's mature years as both poet and Anglican convert, written across seven years during a period of personal spiritual deepening and global upheaval. The four poems—"Burnt…
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T. S. Eliot · 1935 · Other
T. S. Eliot's verse drama chronicles the final days of Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, leading to his assassination in Canterbury Cathedral on December 29, 1170. Written for the Canterbury Festival of…
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Evelyn Underhill · 1936 · Book
Evelyn Underhill wrote this comprehensive study of Christian worship during the 1930s as the Church of England grappled with liturgical reform and as ecumenical dialogue brought different traditions into conversation. Drawing on…
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Evelyn Underhill · 1937 · Book
Evelyn Underhill's The Spiritual Life emerged from a series of retreat addresses she gave to Anglican clergy in the 1930s, during a period when she had established herself as one of England's…
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Dorothy L. Sayers · 1937 · Other
Dorothy L. Sayers wrote this religious drama in 1937 for the Canterbury Festival, commissioned to celebrate the cathedral's spiritual and architectural heritage. The play dramatizes the life of William of Sens, the…
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Dorothy L. Sayers · 1939 · Other
Dorothy L. Sayers wrote this verse drama as the second play in her cycle on the legendary figure of Doctor Faustus, following her 1938 work "The Devil to Pay in the Flesh."…
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T. S. Eliot · 1939 · Book
Published on the eve of World War II, T. S. Eliot's "The Idea of a Christian Society" emerged from three lectures delivered at Cambridge in March 1939, as Europe stood poised between…
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Dorothy L. Sayers · 1940 · Essay
"Begin Here" emerged from Dorothy L. Sayers' conviction that Britain's spiritual and intellectual crisis in 1940 demanded more than mere political solutions. Written as the nation faced its darkest hour in World…
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C. S. Lewis · 1940 · Book
C. S. Lewis wrote The Problem of Pain in 1940 as a philosophical defense of Christian theodicy, addressing one of faith's most persistent challenges: how a good and omnipotent God can permit…
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Dorothy L. Sayers · 1941 · Book
Dorothy L. Sayers wrote this theological meditation during the early years of World War II, seeking to illuminate the nature of creativity and its relationship to divine creation. A detective novelist and…
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C. S. Lewis · 1941 · Essay
"The Weight of Glory" began as a sermon delivered by C.S. Lewis at the University Church of St. Mary the Virgin in Oxford on June 8, 1941. Preaching to a congregation living…
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C. S. Lewis · 1942 · Book
The Screwtape Letters is a work of satirical Christian apologetics disguised as correspondence between two demons. C. S. Lewis wrote these fictional letters during the early years of World War II, originally…
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C. S. Lewis · 1943 · Book
The Abolition of Man emerged from three lectures C. S. Lewis delivered at Durham University in 1943, during the height of World War II. Lewis was responding to what he saw as…
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Dorothy L. Sayers · 1943 · Other
The Man Born to Be King is a cycle of twelve radio plays dramatizing the life of Christ from Nativity to Resurrection, written by Dorothy L. Sayers for BBC Radio during World…
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Amy Carmichael · 1943 · Book
Though the Mountains Shake emerged from Amy Carmichael's final years leading the Dohnavur Fellowship in Tamil Nadu, India, written as World War II raged across the globe. Published in 1943, this collection…
