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C. S. Lewis · 1945 · Book
The Great Divorce began as a series of weekly installments in The Guardian newspaper during 1944-1945, as Lewis crafted a fictional journey between heaven and hell to explore the nature of human…
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Dorothy L. Sayers · 1947 · Essay
"Creed or Chaos?" emerged from a lecture Dorothy Sayers delivered in 1940 to a gathering of clergy and lay leaders grappling with Christianity's role during the upheaval of World War II. Writing…
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C. S. Lewis · 1947 · Book
Lewis wrote this philosophical defense of the supernatural in response to the scientific materialism that dominated intellectual discourse in the mid-twentieth century. As Darwin's theories and modern physics reshaped how educated people…
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T. S. Eliot · 1948 · Book
T. S. Eliot wrote these reflections on culture and society in the aftermath of World War II, when Western civilization seemed to many observers to be fragmenting or collapsing entirely. As a…
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C. S. Lewis · 1952 · Book
Mere Christianity emerged from C. S. Lewis's wartime BBC radio talks, broadcast to the British public between 1941 and 1944 during the darkest days of World War II. Originally titled "Broadcast Talks,"…
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Leon Morris · 1955 · Book
Leon Morris wrote this theological study as a young Anglican scholar responding to what he saw as inadequate treatments of New Testament atonement theology in mid-twentieth-century scholarship. Working from his position as…
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C. S. Lewis · 1956 · Book
Lewis's final novel retells the ancient myth of Cupid and Psyche from the perspective of Orual, the ugly elder sister of the beautiful Psyche. Written late in his career, this work emerged…
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John R. W. Stott · 1958 · Book
John Stott wrote Basic Christianity in 1958 as a clear, systematic presentation of the Christian faith for inquirers and new believers. The Anglican rector of All Souls Church in London recognized the…
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J. B. Phillips · 1958 · Scripture
A highly influential modern English rendering of the New Testament, the work of the Anglican clergyman J. B. Phillips, who began translating during the Second World War with the aim of making…
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C. S. Lewis · 1958 · Commentary
C.S. Lewis wrote this extended meditation on the Psalms in 1958, emerging from his own wrestling with the difficulties many modern readers find in these ancient Hebrew prayers and songs. As a…
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Charles Simeon · 1959 · Book
Charles Simeon's "Let Wisdom Judge" emerges from his decades of pastoral ministry at Holy Trinity Church, Cambridge, where he served from 1782 until his death in 1836. As one of the leading…
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C. S. Lewis · 1960 · Book
C. S. Lewis wrote The Four Loves in 1960 as an exploration of human love in its various forms, drawing on both classical philosophy and Christian theology. The work emerged from Lewis's…
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C. S. Lewis · 1961 · Book
A Grief Observed is C. S. Lewis's raw and unflinching record of his experience following the death of his wife, Joy Davidman, from bone cancer in 1960. Written in four school exercise…
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James Barr · 1961 · Book
James Barr's groundbreaking study emerged from his growing concern about widespread misunderstandings of how Hebrew and Greek words function in biblical texts. Writing as a scholar of Semitic languages at Edinburgh, Barr…
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C. S. Lewis · 1964 · Book
Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer emerged from C. S. Lewis's final years as his last major work of Christian apologetics and spiritual reflection. Published posthumously in 1964, the book takes the…
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Leon Morris · 1965 · Book
Leon Morris wrote this comprehensive biblical theology during his tenure as principal of Ridley College in Melbourne, addressing what he saw as insufficient attention to the cross in contemporary New Testament scholarship.…
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John R. W. Stott · 1970 · Book
This collection of addresses emerged from John Stott's concern that modern Christianity had grown too comfortable with cultural accommodation, losing sight of the inherently challenging nature of Christ's message. Writing during a…
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J. B. Phillips · 1972 · Scripture
A mature revision of J. B. Phillips's influential modern-speech New Testament, this edition covers the New Testament alone, translated from Greek and taking the Greek New Testament as its base text. Phillips,…
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John R. W. Stott · 1973 · Commentary
Guard the Gospel is John Stott's exposition of Paul's Second Letter to Timothy, written during the early 1970s as part of his broader commitment to expository preaching and biblical exposition. The work…
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John R. W. Stott · 1975 · Book
Christian Mission in the Modern World emerged from John Stott's addresses at the 1975 Mission of Hope conference in Australia, delivered at a time when traditional evangelical approaches to mission faced mounting…
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Leon Morris · 1976 · Book
Leon Morris wrote this systematic defense of divine revelation during the 1970s when evangelical theology faced sustained challenges from liberal biblical criticism and process theology. As principal of Ridley College Melbourne and…
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John R. W. Stott · 1978 · Commentary
John Stott's exposition of Matthew 5-7 emerged from his decades of preaching and teaching at All Souls Church, Langham Place, where he wrestled with making Jesus's most famous discourse accessible to modern…
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Rowan Williams · 1979 · Book
The Wound of Knowledge emerged from Rowan Williams' doctoral research at Cambridge and his early years as a theological educator, written when he was thirty and serving as a lecturer at Westcott…
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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…
