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Leonard Ravenhill · 1959 · Book
Leonard Ravenhill's piercing examination of mid-twentieth-century Christianity emerged from his deep frustration with what he saw as the spiritual lethargy of the Western church. Writing in 1959 as both an evangelist and…
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C. S. Lewis · 1960 · Book
C. S. Lewis wrote The Four Loves in 1960 as an exploration of human love in its various forms, drawing on both classical philosophy and Christian theology. The work emerged from Lewis's…
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Jean Daniélou · 1960 · Book
Jean Daniélou wrote this work as a systematic exploration of how the Old Testament prefigures and finds fulfillment in the New Testament, drawing on the patristic tradition of typological interpretation. Writing in…
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Herman Dooyeweerd · 1960 · Book
Herman Dooyeweerd's "In the Twilight of Western Thought" presents four lectures delivered at various American universities in the late 1950s, offering a systematic critique of Western philosophy's foundational assumptions. Writing as a…
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A. W. Tozer · 1960 · Book
Of God and Men emerged from A. W. Tozer's conviction that mid-twentieth-century American Christianity had grown dangerously comfortable with spiritual mediocrity. Writing as pastor of Chicago's Southside Alliance Church and editor of…
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Oswald Chambers · 1960 · Book
This posthumous collection gathers Oswald Chambers' theological reflections on the nature and reality of sin, compiled from his lectures and writings after his death in Egypt in 1917. Drawing from his background…
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Josef Pieper · 1960 · Book
Problems of Modern Faith emerged from Josef Pieper's lectures delivered in the late 1950s, addressing the intellectual challenges facing Christian belief in an increasingly secular age. Writing as a Thomistic philosopher deeply…
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Josef Pieper · 1960 · Book
Josef Pieper's brief but penetrating study emerges from his lifelong engagement with medieval philosophy and his concern that modern scholarship had fundamentally misunderstood the nature and achievement of scholastic thought. Writing in…
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Oswald Chambers · 1960 · Book
This collection of exposition emerged from Oswald Chambers' teaching ministry at the Bible Training College in London during the early twentieth century. Drawing from his classroom lectures on Matthew 5-7, Chambers approached…
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Dorothy Day · 1960 · Book
Dorothy Day published this life of Thérèse of Lisieux in 1960, nearly three decades into her work with the Catholic Worker movement and the houses of hospitality she had helped found with…
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Georges Florovsky · 1961 · Essay
Georges Florovsky's essay emerged from his lifelong project to articulate the distinctive theological vision of the Eastern Orthodox tradition for the modern West. Writing in the mid-twentieth century when patristic scholarship was…
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J. I. Packer · 1961 · Book
Evangelism and the Sovereignty of God emerged from J. I. Packer's lectures at Westminster Chapel in London, addressing a theological tension that had long troubled evangelical Christians. The book tackles what many…
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Frank Laubach · 1961 · Book
Frank Laubach's Game with Minutes emerged from his decades of missionary work in the Philippines and his ongoing experiments with what he called "practicing the presence of God." Writing in 1961 near…
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Glory of the Lord The Glory of the Lord: A Theological Aesthetics
Hans Urs von Balthasar · 1961–1969 · Treatise
Hans Urs von Balthasar's seven-volume theological aesthetics emerged from his conviction that modern theology had abandoned beauty as a fundamental category for understanding divine revelation. Writing across the turbulent 1960s as the…
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C. S. Lewis · 1961 · Book
A Grief Observed is C. S. Lewis's raw and unflinching record of his experience following the death of his wife, Joy Davidman, from bone cancer in 1960. Written in four school exercise…
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A. W. Tozer · 1961 · Book
A. W. Tozer wrote The Knowledge of the Holy out of alarm at what he saw as the diminished vision of God pervading mid-twentieth-century evangelicalism. Published in 1961, this work emerged from…
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Joint committee of British churches and scholars · 1961 · Scripture
The New English Bible was the first major British ecumenical undertaking to offer a wholly fresh translation of scripture, intended to replace rather than merely revise the King James tradition that had…
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Thomas Merton · 1961 · Book
Thomas Merton's The New Man emerged from his deepening contemplative practice at Gethsemani Abbey in the late 1950s, written as he grappled with questions of human transformation and spiritual maturity that had…
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Thomas Merton · 1961 · Book
Thomas Merton's New Seeds of Contemplation emerged from his deepening understanding of contemplative prayer and mystical theology during his mature years as a Trappist monk at Gethsemani Abbey. First published in 1961,…
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Theophan (Fan) Noli · 1961 · Scripture
An unusual English rendering of the New Testament prepared by Fan Noli, the Albanian Orthodox bishop, statesman and translator who was also known for putting Orthodox liturgical texts into Albanian and for…
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Elisabeth Elliot · 1961 · Book
Elisabeth Elliot's account emerges from one of the most shocking missionary martyrdoms of the twentieth century. When her husband Jim Elliot and four other American missionaries were killed by Huaorani warriors in…
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James Barr · 1961 · Book
James Barr's groundbreaking study emerged from his growing concern about widespread misunderstandings of how Hebrew and Greek words function in biblical texts. Writing as a scholar of Semitic languages at Edinburgh, Barr…
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Watchman Nee · 1961 · Book
What Shall This Man Do? emerges from Watchman Nee's pastoral concern for individual believers struggling to understand their place within God's larger purposes for the church. Originally delivered as spoken ministry to…
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Oswald Chambers · 1962 · Book
Biblical Psychology emerged from Oswald Chambers' teaching at the Bible Training College in London during the early twentieth century, where he served as principal from 1911 until his departure for Egypt in…
