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Anonymous committee of British Christians · 1902 · Scripture
Produced at the turn of the twentieth century, the Twentieth Century New Testament was one of the first committee translations deliberately rendered in contemporary rather than traditional biblical English. Its scope is…
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Frank Laubach · 1937 · Letter
Frank Laubach wrote these intimate letters to his father from the remote island of Mindanao in the Philippines, where he served as a missionary among the Maranao people from 1930 to 1932.…
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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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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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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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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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A. W. Tozer · 1950 · Book
A. W. Tozer's The Divine Conquest emerged from his growing concern that American Christianity had become too comfortable with shallow religious experience. Writing in 1950 as pastor of Southside Alliance Church in…
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Lesslie Newbigin · 1953 · Book
Lesslie Newbigin wrote The Household of God as the Kerr Lectures at Glasgow in 1952, during the height of twentieth-century ecumenical enthusiasm. The World Council of Churches had formed just four years…
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Oswald Chambers · 1960 · Book
This collection of exposition emerged from Oswald Chambers' teaching ministry at the Bible Training College in London during the early twentieth century. Drawing from his classroom lectures on Matthew 5-7, Chambers approached…
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Frank Laubach · 1961 · Book
Frank Laubach's Game with Minutes emerged from his decades of missionary work in the Philippines and his ongoing experiments with what he called "practicing the presence of God." Writing in 1961 near…
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Joint committee of British churches and scholars · 1961 · Scripture
The New English Bible was the first major British ecumenical undertaking to offer a wholly fresh translation of scripture, intended to replace rather than merely revise the King James tradition that had…
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Oswald Chambers · 1962 · Book
Biblical Psychology emerged from Oswald Chambers' teaching at the Bible Training College in London during the early twentieth century, where he served as principal from 1911 until his departure for Egypt in…
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A. W. Tozer · 1963 · Book
A.W. Tozer compiled this anthology of Christian poetry during the height of his pastoral ministry, drawing from centuries of devotional verse to create what he considered essential reading for spiritual formation. Writing…
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Good News Bible Good News Translation / Today's English Version
Robert G. Bratcher and American Bible Society teams · 1966 · Scripture
A landmark functional-equivalence Bible, designed for clarity across cultures and reading levels, the Good News Translation—first known as Today's English Version—emerged from the work of the American Bible Society in the mid-twentieth…
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Lesslie Newbigin · 1966 · Book
Honest Religion for Secular Man emerged from Lesslie Newbigin's wrestling with the cultural upheaval of the 1960s, when traditional Christian faith faced unprecedented challenges from secular thought and the "honest to God"…
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Thomas Merton · 1967 · Book
Mystics and Zen Masters emerged from Thomas Merton's deepening engagement with Eastern spirituality during the 1960s, a period when the Trappist monk was increasingly convinced that contemplative wisdom transcended religious boundaries. Writing…
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Lesslie Newbigin · 1969 · Book
Lesslie Newbigin's The Finality of Christ emerged from his decades as a missionary in India and his deep involvement in the World Council of Churches during the 1960s, when Christianity's relationship to…
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Oswald Chambers · 1970 · Book
This collection gathers additional devotional readings from Oswald Chambers, compiled posthumously by his wife Biddy Chambers from his lectures, sermons, and teaching notes. Following the enormous popularity of "My Utmost for His…
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RSV committee · 1971 · Scripture
Issued in 1971, this edition presents a revised Revised Standard Version New Testament, incorporating textual and translation changes that followed twenty-five years of use. Its scope is limited to the New Testament,…
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Henri Nouwen · 1972 · Book
With Open Hands emerged from Henri Nouwen's pastoral work with seminary students and retreat participants who struggled with prayer as an abstract obligation rather than a lived relationship. Writing in the early…
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Frank Laubach · 1973 · Book
Frank Laubach's "Practicing His Presence" emerged from his profound spiritual awakening during his missionary work in the Philippines in the 1930s. Isolated on the island of Mindanao after his wife's death, Laubach…
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Of Ivory Towers and Ashrams Of Ivory Towers and Ashrams: Some Reflections on Scholarship and the Christian Mission
Andrew Walls · 1975 · Essay
A short programmatic essay from 1975 in which Andrew Walls asks what sort of institution, and what sort of scholar, the study of Christian mission actually requires. Walls wrote it from a…
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Henri Nouwen · 1976 · Book
The Genesee Diary chronicles Henri Nouwen's seven-month sojourn at the Abbey of the Genesee, a Trappist monastery in upstate New York, from June 1974 to January 1975. Nouwen, then a professor at…
