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Amy Carmichael · 1938 · Poem
Amy Carmichael's poem "If" emerged from her decades of missionary work in India, where she rescued children from temple prostitution and founded the Dohnavur Fellowship. Written in 1938 near the end of…
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Karl Barth · 1938 · Book
The Knowledge of God and the Service of God emerged from Karl Barth's 1937-1938 Gifford Lectures at the University of Aberdeen, delivered during a period when European Christianity faced mounting pressures from…
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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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Dorothy Day · 1939 · Book
House of Hospitality is Dorothy Day's chronicle of the first five years of the Catholic Worker movement, assembled from the columns, diary entries, and letters she wrote between 1933 and 1938. The…
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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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Amy Carmichael · 1939 · Book
Kohila emerged from Amy Carmichael's decades of missionary work in South India, where she rescued children from temple prostitution and founded the Dohnavur Fellowship. Written in 1939 near the end of her…
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer · 1939 · Book
Life Together emerged from Dietrich Bonhoeffer's experience directing an underground seminary at Finkenwalde from 1935 to 1937, where young pastors prepared for ministry under the Confessing Church while Nazi pressure mounted against…
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Vladimir Lossky · 1939 · Treatise
Vladimir Lossky's doctoral thesis emerged from his rigorous study of patristic theology at the Sorbonne during the 1930s, when Western scholarship was beginning to rediscover the profound theological sophistication of the mysterious…
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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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Dietrich Bonhoeffer · 1940–1943 · Treatise
Ethik emerged from Dietrich Bonhoeffer's wrestling with moral responsibility during his involvement in the conspiracy against Hitler. Written in fragments between 1940 and 1943 while serving as a double agent for the…
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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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Romano Guardini · 1940 · Book
Romano Guardini's "Die letzten Dinge" (The Last Things) emerged from his theological lectures at the University of Berlin in the late 1930s, as Europe stood on the precipice of devastating war. Writing…
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S. H. Hooke and committee · 1941 · Scripture
A pioneering controlled-vocabulary Bible designed for readers with limited English, the Bible in Basic English covers the complete Bible, translated from Hebrew and Greek and working directly from the original-language texts. It…
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Catholic Biblical Association scholars · 1941 · Scripture
The principal American Catholic translation project of the twentieth century, the Confraternity Bible began as a revision of the Douay-Rheims/Challoner tradition, which served as both its predecessor and its base translation, and…
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Amy Carmichael · 1941 · Book
Amy Carmichael wrote this devotional work during her final years of ministry in India, drawing from decades of experience leading the Dohnavur Fellowship and caring for rescued children. Published in 1941, the…
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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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Martyn Lloyd-Jones · 1942 · Book
This book emerged from a series of lectures Martyn Lloyd-Jones delivered at Westminster Chapel in London during 1942, as the Second World War raged and Western civilization faced unprecedented crisis. Writing amid…
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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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F. F. Bruce · 1943 · Book
F. F. Bruce's compact defense of New Testament reliability emerged from his work as a classical scholar at the University of Manchester, where his expertise in ancient Greek and Roman history positioned…
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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…
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Henri de Lubac · 1944 · Book
Henri de Lubac's groundbreaking historical study emerged from the theological ferment of mid-twentieth-century France, where Catholic scholars were recovering patristic and medieval sources while engaging modern challenges to ecclesiology. Writing during the…
