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Karl Barth · 1922 · Commentary
Barth's commentary on Romans emerged from his struggle as a young pastor in the Swiss village of Safenwil to preach Paul's letter with integrity amid the cultural optimism and theological liberalism of…
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T. S. Eliot · 1922 · Poem
T. S. Eliot's "The Waste Land" is a modernist poem of 434 lines published in 1922, emerging from the cultural devastation and spiritual emptiness that followed World War I. Written during Eliot's…
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J. Gresham Machen · 1923 · Book
J. Gresham Machen wrote this theological treatise in 1923 as theological liberalism was gaining influence within American Protestant denominations, particularly his own Presbyterian Church. As a New Testament scholar at Princeton Theological…
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J. Gresham Machen · 1923 · Book
J. Gresham Machen wrote this systematic introduction to New Testament Greek grammar in response to the declining quality of classical education in American seminaries and colleges during the early twentieth century. As…
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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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G. K. Chesterton · 1923 · Book
G. K. Chesterton's biographical portrait of Saint Francis emerged from his deepening engagement with Catholic thought in the years before his own conversion. Writing as an Anglican who had moved far from…
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Charles de Foucauld · 1923 · Book
Charles de Foucauld's spiritual writings emerged from his radical experiment in Christian discipleship in the Sahara Desert at the turn of the twentieth century. A former French cavalry officer who had lived…
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G. Campbell Morgan · 1924 · Commentary
G. Campbell Morgan's commentary on Acts emerged from his decades of expository preaching at Westminster Chapel in London, where he served as pastor during the early twentieth century. Writing in 1924, Morgan…
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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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A. T. Robertson · 1924 · Book
A. T. Robertson's brief but influential study emerged from his decades of New Testament scholarship at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, where he held the chair in Greek interpretation. Writing at the height…
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Dorothy Day · 1924 · Book
The Eleventh Virgin is Dorothy Day's first and only novel, published in 1924, nearly a decade before she and Peter Maurin founded the Catholic Worker and three years before her reception into…
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Smith Wigglesworth · 1924 · Book
Ever Increasing Faith emerged from the spoken ministry of Smith Wigglesworth, the Yorkshire plumber turned Pentecostal evangelist whose healing campaigns drew massive crowds across Britain and beyond in the early twentieth century.…
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Smith Wigglesworth · 1924 · Book
Greater Works emerged from Smith Wigglesworth's evangelistic ministry across Britain and beyond during the early decades of the twentieth century. As the Pentecostal movement gained momentum following the Azusa Street Revival, Wigglesworth…
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E. M. Bounds · 1924 · Book
Edward McKendree Bounds wrote extensively on prayer during his decades of pastoral ministry, but The Reality of Prayer represents his most direct assault on the casual, theoretical approach to prayer that he…
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E. M. Bounds · 1925 · Book
The Essentials of Prayer emerged from E. M. Bounds' decades of pastoral ministry and his deep conviction that the American church had lost its understanding of prayer's central place in Christian life.…
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G. K. Chesterton · 1925 · Book
G.K. Chesterton wrote The Everlasting Man as a direct response to H.G. Wells' popular work The Outline of History, which presented human development as a purely evolutionary progression culminating in modern secular…
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T. S. Eliot · 1925 · Poem
T. S. Eliot wrote "The Hollow Men" in the aftermath of completing "The Waste Land," publishing it in 1925 during a period of intense personal and spiritual crisis. The poem emerged from…
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A. T. Robertson · 1925 · Book
A. T. Robertson's introduction to New Testament textual criticism emerged from his decades of teaching biblical studies at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, where he recognized the need for a comprehensive yet accessible…
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Romano Guardini · 1925 · Book
Romano Guardini's "Der Gegensatz" (The Opposition) emerged from his philosophical wrestling with the fundamental polarities that structure human existence and religious experience. Writing in 1925 as a young Catholic philosopher and theologian…
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J. Gresham Machen · 1925 · Book
J. Gresham Machen wrote this defense of Christian faith in 1925, during the height of the fundamentalist-modernist controversy that was splitting American Protestant denominations. As a professor at Princeton Theological Seminary and…
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G. K. Chesterton · 1926 · Book
G. K. Chesterton's theological reflection emerges from his own journey into the Roman Catholic Church in 1922, four years before this work's publication. Written during the height of his literary career and…
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Evelyn Underhill · 1926 · Book
Concerning the Inner Life emerged from Evelyn Underhill's mature period as a spiritual director and retreat leader, collecting addresses she delivered to clergy and lay people seeking deeper communion with God. Writing…
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A. E. Knoch and Concordant Publishing Concern · 1926 · Scripture
The Concordant Literal New Testament is distinguished by a translation method that seeks to render each Greek term with a tightly controlled English equivalent, so that a single Greek word is consistently…
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