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D. A. Carson · 1981 · Book
Carson's theological treatise emerged from the persistent tension that has divided Christian thinkers for centuries: how can God be absolutely sovereign over all things while humans remain genuinely responsible for their choices?…
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Richard Foster · 1981 · Book
Richard Foster's Freedom of Simplicity emerged from his observation that American Christians in the late twentieth century were trapped between two destructive extremes: the prosperity gospel that baptized materialism, and a legalistic…
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J. I. Packer · 1981 · Book
J.I. Packer's God's Words emerged from his growing concern about evangelical confusion over Scripture's nature and authority during the theological upheavals of the 1960s and 1970s. As debates over inerrancy intensified and…
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Gordon Fee · 1981 · Book
Gordon Fee's hermeneutical handbook emerged from his years teaching biblical interpretation to seminary students and pastors who struggled to move responsibly from ancient text to contemporary application. Writing for evangelical readers committed…
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Henri Nouwen · 1981 · Book
Henri Nouwen's The Way of the Heart emerged from his sabbatical year at the Abbey of the Genesee in upstate New York, where the celebrated pastor and psychologist stepped away from his…
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All the Fulness of God All the Fulness of God: Essays on Orthodoxy, Ecumenism and Modern Society
Thomas Hopko · 1982 · Book
This collection of essays emerged from Thomas Hopko's dual vocation as a priest and theologian during a period of intensified ecumenical dialogue in the late twentieth century. Writing as Dean of St.…
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John R. W. Stott · 1982 · Book
Between Two Worlds emerged from John Stott's decades of preaching experience and his growing concern that the Christian pulpit had lost its way. Writing in the early 1980s, Stott observed a crisis…
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I. Howard Marshall · 1982 · Book
I. Howard Marshall's Biblical Inspiration emerged during a period of intense evangelical debate over the nature of Scripture's authority in the 1970s and early 1980s. The controversy centered on whether biblical inerrancy…
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Discipline Discipline: The Glad Surrender
Elisabeth Elliot · 1982 · Book
Elisabeth Elliot's "Discipline: The Glad Surrender" emerged from her decades of experience as a missionary widow, single mother, and spiritual mentor who had learned costly lessons about obedience through profound loss and…
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Yves Congar · 1982 · Book
Diversités et communion emerged from Yves Congar's decades of engagement with the question of Christian unity, written as the French Dominican theologian reflected on the achievements and remaining challenges following the Second…
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F. F. Bruce · 1982 · Commentary
F. F. Bruce's commentary on Galatians represents the mature scholarship of one of the twentieth century's most respected evangelical biblical scholars. Writing in the New International Greek Testament Commentary series, Bruce brought…
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Edward Fudge · 1982 · Book
Edward Fudge's comprehensive biblical study emerged from his wrestling with traditional evangelical doctrine about hell and eternal punishment. A Churches of Christ preacher and biblical scholar, Fudge undertook an exhaustive examination of…
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Andrew Walls · 1982 · Essay
Andrew Walls wrote this essay for Missionalia in 1982, the same year he founded the Centre for the Study of Christianity in the Non-Western World at Aberdeen. He came to the question…
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Lesslie Newbigin · 1982 · Commentary
Lesslie Newbigin wrote this exposition of John's Gospel during his final years as a missionary in South India, drawing on decades of cross-cultural ministry and theological reflection. Published in 1982, the commentary…
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Dumitru Staniloae · 1982 · Book
Prayer and Holiness emerged from Dumitru Stăniloae's decades of theological reflection as one of twentieth-century Eastern Orthodoxy's most systematic theologians. Written during his mature period following years of persecution under Romanian communism,…
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Thomas Torrance · 1982 · Book
Reality and Evangelical Theology represents Thomas Torrance's mature reflection on the theological method that governed his distinguished career as a systematic theologian. Written near the height of his influence, this work emerged…
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Rowan Williams · 1982 · Book
Rowan Williams wrote this theological exploration of resurrection as a young academic at Cambridge, addressing what he saw as inadequate treatments of Christianity's central claim in both popular apologetics and scholarly theology.…
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Triune Identity The Triune Identity: God According to the Gospel
Robert Jenson · 1982 · Book
Robert Jenson's The Triune Identity emerged from his conviction that modern theology had lost its grip on the biblical understanding of God's identity. Writing as a Lutheran theologian engaged with both classical…
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I. Howard Marshall · 1983 · Commentary
I. Howard Marshall's commentary on Paul's Thessalonian correspondence emerged as part of the New Century Bible Commentary series, designed to bridge rigorous biblical scholarship with pastoral application. Writing in 1983, Marshall brought…
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Leon Morris · 1983 · Book
Leon Morris wrote this systematic exploration of the atonement during a period when evangelical scholarship was seeking to provide rigorous theological foundations for classical Christian doctrines. As principal of Ridley College Melbourne…
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John Meyendorff · 1983 · Book
This collection of essays by Orthodox theologian John Meyendorff emerged from his decades of teaching and dialogue in the ecumenical movement during the mid-twentieth century. Writing as both a patristic scholar and…
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F. F. Bruce · 1983 · Commentary
F. F. Bruce's commentary on the Gospel of John emerged from his decades of New Testament scholarship and his commitment to making careful biblical exegesis accessible to both scholars and educated lay…
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Holy Scripture Holy Scripture: Canon, Authority, Criticism
James Barr · 1983 · Book
Delivered as the Sprunt Lectures at Union Theological Seminary in Virginia and published in 1983, this is James Barr's sustained account of what the Bible is, how it came to be regarded…
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Lenten Spring The Lenten Spring: Readings for Great Lent
Thomas Hopko · 1983 · Book
The Lenten Spring emerged from Thomas Hopko's decades of teaching and pastoral ministry at St. Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary, where he served as dean and professor of dogmatic theology. Writing for Orthodox…
