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G. K. Chesterton · 1909 · Book
Tremendous Trifles gathers thirty-nine brief essays that G. K. Chesterton originally published in the Daily News between 1904 and 1908. Writing for a general newspaper audience, Chesterton transformed everyday observations—about chalk, lamp-posts,…
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E. M. Bounds · 1910 · Book
Power Through Prayer emerged from E. M. Bounds' decades of pastoral ministry and his conviction that the modern church had lost sight of prayer as the essential foundation of all Christian work.…
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G. K. Chesterton · 1910 · Book
G. K. Chesterton's explosive social manifesto emerged from his frustration with both progressive reformers and conservative defenders of the status quo in Edwardian England. Writing in 1910 as debates raged over women's…
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G. K. Chesterton · 1911 · Book
G. K. Chesterton's first collection of detective stories introduces Father Brown, a quiet Catholic priest whose unassuming manner conceals profound insight into human nature and the criminal mind. Published in 1911, these…
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Evelyn Underhill · 1911 · Book
Evelyn Underhill's comprehensive study emerged from her own spiritual searching and the early twentieth century's hunger for authentic religious experience amid increasing secularization. Writing as a laywoman in the Anglican tradition, Underhill…
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Baptist scholars · 1912 · Scripture
The American Baptist Improved Bible and New Testament continued nineteenth-century Baptist efforts to revise the English Scriptures directly from the Greek. Conceived as both a New Testament and a full Bible revision,…
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James Moffatt · 1913 · Scripture
The Moffatt Bible, the work of the Scottish biblical scholar James Moffatt, is a highly influential modern-speech translation that broke strongly with the diction of the King James Version. Produced in the…
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Evelyn Underhill · 1913 · Book
Evelyn Underhill wrote The Mystic Way as a psychological and philosophical study of Christian mystical experience, building on her groundbreaking work Mysticism published three years earlier. Where her previous book had surveyed…
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E. M. Bounds · 1913 · Book
E. M. Bounds wrote this brief but intense treatise on prayer during his final years of ministry, drawing from decades of pastoral experience in the Methodist tradition and his service as a…
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A. T. Robertson · 1914 · Book
A. T. Robertson's monumental grammar emerged from his decades of teaching Greek at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and his conviction that New Testament Greek should be understood not as a peculiar "Holy…
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Irenaeus of Lyons · 1914 · Book
For a reader working through Against Heresies who wants his theology laid out as a system; too detailed as a first introduction.
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Ivan Panin · 1914 · Scripture
A distinctive New Testament in which both the underlying text and the translation were shaped by Ivan Panin's theory of numerical patterns in Scripture. Panin, a Russian-born writer who settled in North…
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Evelyn Underhill · 1914 · Book
Evelyn Underhill wrote this accessible introduction to mystical experience in 1914, addressing educated readers who had encountered mysticism in literature and philosophy but wondered whether it had any relevance to ordinary life.…
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Dorothy L. Sayers · 1916 · Poem
Op. I represents Dorothy L. Sayers' first published collection of poetry, released early in her literary career before she gained fame as a detective novelist and Christian apologist. The volume emerged from…
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Jewish Publication Society committee · 1917 · Scripture
The Jewish Publication Society's Holy Scriptures was the first major committee-produced Jewish English Tanakh in the United States, issued in 1917. Its scope is the Hebrew Bible, or Tanakh, and it draws…
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Dorothy L. Sayers · 1918 · Book
Catholic Tales and Christian Songs represents Dorothy L. Sayers' earliest published work, a collection of religious poetry that emerged from her Oxford years and immediate aftermath. Published when Sayers was twenty-five, the…
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A. W. Pink · 1918 · Book
Arthur Pink's treatise on divine sovereignty emerged from his deep concern that early twentieth-century Christianity had drifted toward a man-centered theology that diminished God's absolute authority over all creation. Writing in 1918,…
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Evelyn Underhill · 1920 · Book
This collection gathers Evelyn Underhill's mature reflections on mystical theology during the years following her conversion to Anglicanism and the completion of her monumental study "Mysticism." Writing in the aftermath of World…
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E. M. Bounds · 1920 · Book
Purpose in Prayer emerged from E. M. Bounds' conviction that the church of his era had lost sight of prayer as the central engine of Christian life and ministry. Writing in the…
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J. Gresham Machen · 1921 · Book
J. Gresham Machen wrote The Origin of Paul's Religion as a scholarly defense of traditional Christian belief against the liberal Protestant theology that dominated academic biblical studies in the early twentieth century.…
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Alexander Whyte · 1922 · Book
Alexander Whyte's "Lord, Teach Us To Pray" emerged from his decades as minister of Free St. George's Church in Edinburgh, where his penetrating expository preaching had made him one of Scotland's most…
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Edgar J. Goodspeed (NT); J. M. Powis Smith and colleagues (OT) · 1923 · Scripture
Associated with the American scholar Edgar J. Goodspeed, who worked at the University of Chicago and published his rendering of the New Testament in 1923, this was one of the first major…
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William G. Ballantine / related Riverside project attribution varies by edition · 1923 · Scripture
The Riverside New Testament belongs to the early twentieth-century movement toward contemporary American Bible prose, a period in which a number of translators sought to render the scriptures in the idiom of…
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Helen Barrett Montgomery · 1924 · Scripture
The Montgomery Centenary Translation, the work of the Baptist writer and scholar Helen Barrett Montgomery, was the first New Testament translation by a woman scholar to receive broad denominational publication in the…
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