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Vladimir Lossky · 1944 · Book
Vladimir Lossky's foundational work emerged from his position as a Russian Orthodox theologian in exile, writing in French during World War II to bridge the gap between Eastern Orthodox theology and Western…
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Jean Daniélou · 1944 · Book
Jean Daniélou's groundbreaking study emerged from the mid-twentieth century revival of patristic scholarship, when scholars were rediscovering the theological richness of the early church fathers. Writing during World War II, Daniélou sought…
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Sergei Bulgakov · 1945 · Book
The Bride of the Lamb represents the culmination of Sergei Bulgakov's systematic theology, written during his final years as a professor at the Orthodox Theological Institute of Saint Sergius in Paris. Completed…
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A. W. Pink · 1945 · Commentary
Arthur W. Pink's exposition of John's Gospel emerged from his decades of pastoral ministry and Bible teaching during the early twentieth century. Originally delivered as a series of studies through his magazine…
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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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Oswald Chambers · 1946 · Book
This collection emerged from the profound conviction that guided all of Oswald Chambers' teaching: that the Holy Spirit's primary work is to glorify Christ by making Him real in the believer's experience.…
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Cornelius Van Til · 1946 · Book
Van Til's brief yet penetrating analysis emerged from his growing concern that orthodox Reformed theology faced a subtler threat than the liberal modernism of the early twentieth century. Writing in the aftermath…
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Frank Laubach · 1946 · Book
Frank Laubach wrote this compact manifesto on prayer from his unique position as both a missionary educator and a global literacy pioneer. Having spent decades developing reading programs across the developing world,…
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Division of Christian Education, National Council of Churches committee · 1946 · Scripture
One of the central ancestor texts of modern English Bible translation, the Revised Standard Version covers the complete Bible, rendered from Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek. It is best classified not as a…
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Henri de Lubac · 1946 · Book
Henri de Lubac's Surnaturel emerged from his profound concern that modern Catholic theology had lost touch with the Church Fathers' understanding of human nature's orientation toward God. Writing in the aftermath of…
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Jacques Ellul · 1946 · Book
Jacques Ellul's first major theological work emerged from his dual expertise as both a professor of law at the University of Bordeaux and a committed Reformed Christian wrestling with the relationship between…
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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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Karl Barth · 1947 · Book
Dogmatik im Grundriß emerged from Karl Barth's lectures at the University of Bonn during the winter semester of 1946-47, delivered to a generation of German theology students whose education had been interrupted…
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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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Karl Barth · 1947 · Book
Karl Barth's sweeping survey of Protestant theology emerged from his lecture courses at Bonn and Basel during the 1930s and 1940s, published in 1947 as he sought to understand how nineteenth-century theological…
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George Swann · 1947 · Scripture
The Swann New Testament is a distinct mid-century English rendering of the New Testament, produced during a period in which numerous independent translators issued versions in contemporary idiom. Its scope is limited…
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Romano Guardini · 1948 · Book
Romano Guardini's "Freiheit, Gnade, Schicksal" emerged from his lectures at the University of Tübingen in the immediate aftermath of World War II, as Germany grappled with questions of moral responsibility and human…
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Jim Elliot · 1948–1956 · Other
The journals of Jim Elliot comprise the personal spiritual reflections of a young American missionary during his college years at Wheaton and his brief but intense missionary service in Ecuador. Written between…
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Josef Pieper · 1948 · Essay
Josef Pieper's brief philosophical essay emerged from the intellectual and spiritual wasteland of post-war Germany, where the philosopher witnessed a culture consumed by work, productivity, and utilitarian thinking. Writing as both a…
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T. F. Letchworth · 1948 · Scripture
The Letchworth New Testament is a distinct, independent English rendering of the New Testament produced in the postwar period. Its scope is limited to the New Testament alone, translated from Greek and…
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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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Dorothy Day · 1948 · Book
On Pilgrimage is Dorothy Day's diary of a single year, 1948, written in monthly installments for The Catholic Worker and then gathered into a book. Day was in her early fifties, roughly…
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Jean Daniélou · 1948 · Book
Jean Daniélou's study of Origen emerged from the theological renewal movement in mid-twentieth-century French Catholicism, where scholars sought to recover patristic wisdom for contemporary Christian life. Writing in 1948 as part of…
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A. W. Tozer · 1948 · Book
A. W. Tozer's most influential work emerged from his growing concern that American evangelicalism in the 1940s had become satisfied with a shallow, experience-poor Christianity. Writing as pastor of Southside Alliance Church…
