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Corrie ten Boom · 1977 · Book
Jesus Is Victor emerged from Corrie ten Boom's extensive travels as an itinerant evangelist in the decades following her release from Ravensbrück concentration camp. Drawing from her experiences speaking to audiences across…
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Lesslie Newbigin · 1978 · Book
Lesslie Newbigin wrote The Open Secret as a systematic exploration of mission theology at a time when the ecumenical movement was grappling with fundamental questions about the church's evangelistic task. Drawing from…
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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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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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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…
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I. Howard Marshall · 1983 · Commentary
I. Howard Marshall's commentary on Paul's Thessalonian correspondence emerged as part of the New Century Bible Commentary series, designed to bridge rigorous biblical scholarship with pastoral application. Writing in 1983, Marshall brought…
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Eugene H. Peterson · 1983 · Book
Eugene Peterson's meditation on the prophet Jeremiah emerged from his decades of pastoral ministry in suburban America during the late twentieth century. Writing as both biblical scholar and practicing pastor, Peterson sought…
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Lamin Sanneh · 1983 · Book
Lamin Sanneh's West African Christianity: The Religious Impact is a historical study of how Christianity took root along the Guinea coast and its hinterland, from the arrival of Portuguese traders and priests…
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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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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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Lesslie Newbigin · 1986 · Book
Foolishness to the Greeks emerged from Lesslie Newbigin's decades as a missionary in India and his later return to a secularized Britain in the 1970s. Having witnessed Christianity as a minority faith…
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Alister McGrath · 1987 · Book
Alister McGrath's study emerges from a recognition that the Protestant Reformation cannot be understood merely as a response to ecclesiastical corruption or popular religious ferment. Written as a work of intellectual history,…
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Lesslie Newbigin · 1989 · Book
The Gospel in a Pluralist Society emerged from Lesslie Newbigin's decades as a missionary in India and his later return to England, where he encountered a Western church struggling to articulate Christian…
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Henri Nouwen · 1989 · Book
Henri Nouwen wrote this brief meditation on Christian leadership in 1989, near the end of his time at Harvard Divinity School and just before he joined the L'Arche Daybreak community in Toronto.…
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Joint Committee of British churches · 1989 · Scripture
The Revised English Bible is a major revision of the New English Bible, undertaken with broader church participation than its predecessor and adopting more moderate language. Covering the complete Bible, it was…
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Lamin Sanneh · 1989 · Book
Lamin Sanneh's groundbreaking study emerged from his observation that Western missionary scholarship had fundamentally misunderstood the nature of Christian mission, particularly in Africa. Writing as a Gambian scholar who converted from Islam…
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John Main · 1989 · Book
The Way of Unknowing collects talks and writings by Benedictine monk John Main, who devoted his life to recovering the ancient Christian practice of meditation through the use of a sacred word…
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Frank Laubach · 1990 · Book
Frank Laubach's "Man of Prayer" emerges from the missionary educator's decades of experimentation with what he called "the practice of the presence of God" while serving in the Philippines and later traveling…
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Brennan Manning · 1990 · Book
The Ragamuffin Gospel emerged from Brennan Manning's decades as a Franciscan priest, spiritual director, and recovering alcoholic who had witnessed both the heights of religious devotion and the depths of personal failure.…
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Lesslie Newbigin · 1991 · Book
Truth to Tell emerged from Lesslie Newbigin's deep concern about the Western church's accommodation to post-Enlightenment culture and its retreat from public truth claims. Writing as a missionary who had spent decades…
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Classic Christianity Classic Christianity: A Systematic Theology
Thomas Oden · 1992 · Book
Thomas Oden's Classic Christianity represents a condensed distillation of his three-volume systematic theology, offering what he termed "paleo-orthodoxy" — a return to the consensual tradition of the early church fathers. Writing in…
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Joel B. Green · 1992 · Other
The Dictionary of Jesus and the Gospels emerged from the recognition that contemporary Gospel scholarship had grown increasingly specialized and fragmented, making it difficult for students, pastors, and educated readers to navigate…
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American Bible Society revision team · 1992 · Scripture
The 1992 revision of the Good News Translation is a major revision of the Good News Bible, incorporating updated English and revised textual decisions. Taking the Good News Bible / Today's English…
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