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T. S. Eliot · 1915 · Poem
T. S. Eliot's first major poem emerged from his experience as a young American intellectual studying at Harvard and Oxford in the early 1910s. Written when Eliot was in his early twenties,…
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1915 · Scripture
The Trench Epistles GWC is a rare early twentieth-century English rendering of the epistles, preserved as a distinct work within modern translation corpora. Its scope is limited to the New Testament epistles…
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A. T. Robertson · 1916 · Book
A. T. Robertson's study emerged from the theological controversies of the early twentieth century, when liberal Protestant scholarship increasingly questioned traditional Christological claims. Writing as one of the foremost New Testament scholars…
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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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1916 · Scripture
St. Paul from the Trenches is an English rendering of Pauline material produced in the era of the First World War, and it is historically notable chiefly for that context as well…
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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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Edith Stein · 1917 · Treatise
Edith Stein's doctoral dissertation represents a pivotal moment when phenomenological philosophy encountered the fundamental question of how human beings can truly know and understand one another. Written under Edmund Husserl's direction at…
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Sergei Bulgakov · 1917 · Treatise
Written during the tumultuous final years of Imperial Russia, "The Unfading Light" represents Sergei Bulgakov's theological manifesto at a crucial turning point in his intellectual journey. Originally trained as a Marxist economist,…
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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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Romano Guardini · 1918 · Book
Romano Guardini's Vom Geist der Liturgie emerged from the young priest's pastoral work at a Berlin parish and his involvement with the German Youth Movement in the years following World War I.…
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A. T. Robertson · 1919 · Book
A. T. Robertson wrote this practical guide during the early twentieth century to address a growing crisis in American pulpits: ministers who had studied Greek in seminary but abandoned it in practice,…
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G. Campbell Morgan · 1919 · Book
G. Campbell Morgan's The Ministry of the Word emerged from his decades of preaching experience across Britain and America, written as a practical guide for ministers seeking to elevate their pulpit work…
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T. S. Eliot · 1919 · Essay
This foundational essay in modern literary criticism emerged from T. S. Eliot's early years as a poet and critic, appearing first in The Egoist in 1919 and later collected in The Sacred…
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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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T. S. Eliot · 1920 · Essay
T. S. Eliot's first major collection of literary criticism emerged from his early years as a poet and graduate student wrestling with questions of tradition, authority, and artistic judgment. Published when Eliot…
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René Bazin · 1921 · Book
René Bazin's biography chronicles the extraordinary life of Charles de Foucauld, the French aristocrat turned hermit who died in the Sahara in 1916. Writing just five years after Foucauld's death, Bazin had…
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Adolf von Harnack · 1921 · Book
Adolf von Harnack's monumental study of Marcion emerged from his decades of work on early Christian history and his conviction that understanding second-century Christianity required wrestling seriously with its most radical interpreter.…
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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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A. W. Pink · 1922 · Commentary
Arthur W. Pink's commentary on Genesis emerged from his conviction that the first book of Scripture contained profound spiritual truths often overlooked by superficial reading. Writing during his early ministry period, Pink…
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Evelyn Underhill · 1922 · Book
Evelyn Underhill wrote this collection of addresses during the aftermath of World War I, when many questioned whether traditional spiritual practices could survive in an age of unprecedented technological change and social…
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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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A. W. Pink · 1922–1953 · Commentary
Studies in the Scriptures began as a monthly magazine that Arthur Walkington Pink published independently from 1922 until his death in 1952. Writing from his home in Stornoway on Scotland's Isle of…
