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Watchman Nee · 1957 · Book
Watchman Nee's "Sit, Walk, Stand" emerged from his exposition of Ephesians delivered to Chinese believers in the 1940s, later compiled into this compact treatise on Christian living. Writing during a period of…
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Gladys Aylward · 1957 · Book
Gladys Aylward's autobiography recounts her remarkable journey from working as a parlormaid in London to becoming a missionary in remote China during the tumultuous decades of the 1930s and 1940s. Written after…
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Elisabeth Elliot · 1957 · Book
Elisabeth Elliot's Through Gates of Splendor chronicles the deaths of five American missionaries killed by Huaorani warriors in the Ecuadorian rainforest in January 1956. Writing as the widow of Jim Elliot, one…
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Elisabeth Elliot · 1958 · Book
Shadow of the Almighty emerges from one of the most dramatic missionary stories of the twentieth century. When Jim Elliot and four other young American missionaries were killed by Huaorani warriors in…
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F. F. Bruce · 1958 · Book
F. F. Bruce wrote this sweeping narrative of early Christianity's expansion during the mid-twentieth century's renaissance of biblical scholarship, when evangelical historians sought to demonstrate the historical credibility of Christian origins. Bruce,…
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Berkeley Version Berkeley Version / Modern Language Bible
Gerrit Verkuyl (NT) and later team for OT · 1959 · Scripture
A twentieth-century English rendering aimed at conservative evangelical readers, the Berkeley Version — later circulated under the title Modern Language Bible — sought to present the whole of Scripture in contemporary idiom…
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A. W. Tozer · 1959 · Book
Born After Midnight emerged from A. W. Tozer's pastoral concern that American evangelicalism had settled into spiritual complacency during the prosperity of the 1950s. As pastor of Chicago's Southside Alliance Church and…
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J. I. Packer · 1961 · Book
Evangelism and the Sovereignty of God emerged from J. I. Packer's lectures at Westminster Chapel in London, addressing a theological tension that had long troubled evangelical Christians. The book tackles what many…
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A. W. Tozer · 1961 · Book
A. W. Tozer wrote The Knowledge of the Holy out of alarm at what he saw as the diminished vision of God pervading mid-twentieth-century evangelicalism. Published in 1961, this work emerged from…
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Elisabeth Elliot · 1961 · Book
Elisabeth Elliot's account emerges from one of the most shocking missionary martyrdoms of the twentieth century. When her husband Jim Elliot and four other American missionaries were killed by Huaorani warriors in…
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Lockman Foundation translation team · 1963 · Scripture
A major conservative Bible in the formal-equivalence tradition, the New American Standard Bible is a direct modernization of the line represented by the American Standard Version, which serves as its predecessor and…
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A. W. Tozer · 1964 · Book
That Incredible Christian emerged from A.W. Tozer's growing concern in the 1960s about what he saw as widespread spiritual complacency among American evangelicals. Writing as pastor of Southside Alliance Church in Chicago,…
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Frances Siewert and Lockman Foundation editorial teams · 1965 · Scripture
The Amplified Bible is a distinctive study-oriented translation that places alternative meanings and explanatory expansions directly within the text itself, rather than confining them to footnotes or margins. Covering the complete Bible,…
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A. W. Tozer · 1966 · Book
A. W. Tozer's final collection of essays emerged from his pastoral ministry at Southside Alliance Church in Chicago and his lifelong wrestling with the crisis of superficial Christianity in mid-twentieth-century America. Published…
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Berkeley Version revision committee · 1969 · Scripture
The Modern Language Bible is a substantial revision and renaming of the Berkeley Version, the mid-twentieth-century English translation completed in 1959, which serves as its predecessor and base translation. It covers the…
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1969 · Scripture
The New Life Version stands among the earlier English Bibles deliberately produced with a very small, controlled vocabulary, prepared with readers in mind who are learning English or who have limited literacy.…
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F. F. Bruce · 1969 · Book
F. F. Bruce's New Testament History emerged from the evangelical scholar's conviction that the New Testament documents, properly understood, provide reliable historical testimony about first-century Palestine and the early Christian movement. Writing…
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I. Howard Marshall · 1970 · Book
I. Howard Marshall's groundbreaking study emerged during a period of intense scholarly debate about the historical reliability and theological purpose of Luke-Acts. Writing in 1970, Marshall responded to critics who argued that…
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F. F. Bruce · 1971 · Commentary
F. F. Bruce's commentary on Paul's Corinthian letters emerged from his distinguished career as a biblical scholar at the University of Manchester and his commitment to making rigorous New Testament scholarship accessible…
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Watchman Nee · 1972 · Book
Spiritual Authority emerged from Watchman Nee's ministry to house churches in China during the tumultuous decades of the early to mid-twentieth century. Originally delivered as spoken messages to Christian workers and believers…
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J. I. Packer · 1973 · Book
J. I. Packer's "Knowing God" emerged from his concern that evangelical Christianity was becoming increasingly superficial in its understanding of God's character and ways. Writing in the early 1970s from his position…
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Committee on Bible Translation · 1973 · Scripture
The New International Version is one of the most influential modern English evangelical translations. It comprises the complete Bible, rendered from Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek, working from modern critical editions of the…
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1973 · Scripture
A Translator's Translation of the New Testament is an English rendering of the New Testament prepared not primarily for devotional or liturgical use but as a working tool: it aims to expose…
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Corrie ten Boom · 1974 · Book
Tramp for the Lord chronicles Corrie ten Boom's extensive global ministry in the decades following her release from Nazi concentration camps. After the war ended, ten Boom felt called to travel the…
