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Martyn Lloyd-Jones · 1958 · Book
Lloyd-Jones delivered these addresses to ministers and theological students during a period when evangelical Christianity faced mounting challenges from liberal theology and biblical criticism. Writing in the aftermath of World War II,…
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John R. W. Stott · 1958 · Book
John Stott wrote Basic Christianity in 1958 as a clear, systematic presentation of the Christian faith for inquirers and new believers. The Anglican rector of All Souls Church in London recognized the…
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Josef Pieper · 1958 · Book
Happiness and Contemplation emerged from Josef Pieper's philosophical investigation into what constitutes genuine human fulfillment in an age increasingly dominated by utilitarian thinking and the worship of productivity. Writing in postwar Germany,…
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Jean Daniélou · 1958–1970 · Book
Jean Daniélou's comprehensive three-volume study emerged from his decades of scholarly engagement with patristic sources and his concern that modern Catholics had lost touch with the theological riches of the early church.…
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Oswald Chambers · 1958 · Book
If You Will Ask emerges from Oswald Chambers' conviction that most Christians live far below their spiritual potential because they have not learned to pray with biblical understanding and expectation. Drawing from…
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J. B. Phillips · 1958 · Scripture
A highly influential modern English rendering of the New Testament, the work of the Anglican clergyman J. B. Phillips, who began translating during the Second World War with the aim of making…
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C. S. Lewis · 1958 · Commentary
C.S. Lewis wrote this extended meditation on the Psalms in 1958, emerging from his own wrestling with the difficulties many modern readers find in these ancient Hebrew prayers and songs. As a…
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A. W. Pink · 1958 · Commentary
A. W. Pink's exposition of Christ's seven utterances from the cross emerged from his pastoral concern that modern Christians had lost sight of the profound theological depths contained in Jesus's final words.…
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Elisabeth Elliot · 1958 · Book
Shadow of the Almighty emerges from one of the most dramatic missionary stories of the twentieth century. When Jim Elliot and four other young American missionaries were killed by Huaorani warriors in…
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F. F. Bruce · 1958 · Book
F. F. Bruce wrote this sweeping narrative of early Christianity's expansion during the mid-twentieth century's renaissance of biblical scholarship, when evangelical historians sought to demonstrate the historical credibility of Christian origins. Bruce,…
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Yves Congar · 1958 · Book
Yves Congar's Le Mystère du temple emerged from his deep engagement with patristic and medieval sources during the 1950s, as the French Dominican theologian sought to recover a more biblical and historically…
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Jean Daniélou · 1958 · Book
Jean Daniélou's Théologie du judéo-christianisme emerged from his groundbreaking work in early Christian history and his desire to recover a crucial but neglected chapter in Christianity's development. Writing in the 1950s as…
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Thomas Merton · 1958 · Book
Thomas Merton's Thoughts in Solitude emerged from his deepest period of contemplative withdrawal at the Abbey of Gethsemani, written during the 1950s as he sought greater solitude within monastic life. The work…
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Berkeley Version Berkeley Version / Modern Language Bible
Gerrit Verkuyl (NT) and later team for OT · 1959 · Scripture
A twentieth-century English rendering aimed at conservative evangelical readers, the Berkeley Version — later circulated under the title Modern Language Bible — sought to present the whole of Scripture in contemporary idiom…
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F. F. Bruce · 1959 · Essay
This scholarly essay emerged from the exciting early years of Dead Sea Scroll research, when F. F. Bruce sought to analyze how the Qumran community interpreted Hebrew Scripture. Writing just over a…
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A. W. Tozer · 1959 · Book
Born After Midnight emerged from A. W. Tozer's pastoral concern that American evangelicalism had settled into spiritual complacency during the prosperity of the 1950s. As pastor of Chicago's Southside Alliance Church and…
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Conversions Conversions: Psychological and Spiritual
Martyn Lloyd-Jones · 1959 · Book
This brief work emerged from Martyn Lloyd-Jones's concern that the rising influence of psychology in the twentieth century was creating confusion about the nature of religious conversion. As pastor of Westminster Chapel…
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Leon Morris · 1959 · Commentary
Leon Morris produced this commentary on Paul's Thessalonian correspondence as part of the New International Commentary on the New Testament series, offering evangelical scholarship a rigorous yet accessible treatment of two letters…
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John Meyendorff · 1959 · Book
Meyendorff's doctoral thesis emerged from a pressing need to rehabilitate Gregory Palamas in twentieth-century theological discourse. The fourteenth-century Byzantine theologian had been largely dismissed by Western scholars as a late-medieval obscurantist whose…
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Charles Simeon · 1959 · Book
Charles Simeon's "Let Wisdom Judge" emerges from his decades of pastoral ministry at Holy Trinity Church, Cambridge, where he served from 1782 until his death in 1836. As one of the leading…
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Henri de Lubac · 1959–1964 · Book
Henri de Lubac's monumental four-volume study emerged from his conviction that modern biblical scholarship had lost touch with the rich interpretive tradition of medieval Christianity. Writing in the decades following World War…
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Herman Dooyeweerd · 1959 · Book
Vernieuwing en Bezinning represents Herman Dooyeweerd's mature reflections on the relationship between Christian faith and philosophical inquiry, written as Reformed communities in the Netherlands grappled with rapid social and intellectual changes in…
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Martyn Lloyd-Jones · 1959 · Book
Studies in the Sermon on the Mount grew from a series of Friday evening expository sermons that Martyn Lloyd-Jones preached at Westminster Chapel in London between 1952 and 1953. Lloyd-Jones undertook this…
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Hans Urs von Balthasar · 1959 · Book
Hans Urs von Balthasar's A Theology of History emerged from his conviction that modern historical consciousness had created a crisis for Christian faith. Writing in the aftermath of two world wars and…
