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Gordon Fee · 1985 · Book
Gordon Fee's brief but incisive critique emerged from his unique position as both a respected New Testament scholar and a committed Pentecostal. Writing in the mid-1980s when prosperity theology was gaining significant…
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R. C. Sproul · 1985 · Book
R. C. Sproul's exploration of divine holiness emerged from his recognition that modern Christianity had largely domesticated God, reducing the Almighty to a manageable figure stripped of his fearsome transcendence. Writing as…
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Jay P. Green Sr. · 1985 · Scripture
Green's Literal Translation, also known as the Literal Translation of the Holy Bible, is an influential one-man rendering of Scripture that emphasizes close grammatical correspondence to the Hebrew and Greek. Covering the…
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Richard Foster · 1985 · Book
Richard Foster's Money, Sex and Power emerged from his observation that Christian spiritual formation literature had largely avoided the three forces that most powerfully shape human behavior and corrupt spiritual life. Writing…
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Henry Wansbrough, general editor; Catholic scholars · 1985 · Scripture
The New Jerusalem Bible is a major revision of the Jerusalem Bible of 1966, its predecessor and base translation, drawing more directly on original-language texts and incorporating updated scholarship. It is a…
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John Main · 1985 · Book
The Present Christ emerged from John Main's decades of teaching Christian meditation at his Montreal Benedictine community and the Christian Meditation Centre he founded there. A Benedictine monk who had discovered the…
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Romans Romans: An Exposition of Chapters 1-4
Martyn Lloyd-Jones · 1985 · Commentary
This exposition emerged from Lloyd-Jones's Friday evening Bible studies at Westminster Chapel in London during the 1950s and 1960s, where he systematically worked through Paul's letter to the Romans over thirteen years.…
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Tanakh JPS Tanakh / New JPS Translation
Jewish Publication Society committees · 1985 · Scripture
The New JPS Translation is an entirely new rendering of the Hebrew Bible, or Tanakh, produced by the Jewish Publication Society and completed over the course of more than two decades. Translated…
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Theo-Logic Theo-Logic: Theological Logical Theory
Hans Urs von Balthasar · 1985–1987 · Treatise
Theo-Logic represents Hans Urs von Balthasar's monumental attempt to articulate a distinctly theological logic, completing his theological trilogy that began with The Glory of the Lord and continued with Theo-Drama. Writing in…
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R. C. Sproul · 1986 · Book
R. C. Sproul wrote this theological primer in response to what he saw as widespread confusion and hostility toward the doctrine of predestination within evangelical Christianity. Published in 1986 during his tenure…
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Martyn Lloyd-Jones · 1986 · Book
The Cross emerged from Martyn Lloyd-Jones's expository preaching ministry at Westminster Chapel in London, where he served as minister from 1943 to 1968. Drawing from his deep conviction that the centrality of…
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John R. W. Stott · 1986 · Book
John Stott's comprehensive theological study emerged from his conviction that evangelical Christianity had lost sight of the centrality of Christ's crucifixion. Writing as both pastor and scholar, Stott observed that modern preaching…
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Hans Urs von Balthasar · 1986 · Book
Hans Urs von Balthasar's theological essay emerged from decades of wrestling with the tension between divine justice and divine mercy in Catholic doctrine. Writing in 1986 as one of the twentieth century's…
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John Piper · 1986 · Book
Desiring God emerged from John Piper's wrestling with what he saw as a false dichotomy in American evangelicalism between duty-driven Christianity and the pursuit of joy. Writing as a pastor observing both…
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Anthony Bloom · 1986 · Book
Anthony Bloom's "The Essence of Prayer" emerged from decades of pastoral experience as Metropolitan of the Russian Orthodox Church in Western Europe, where he encountered countless believers struggling to develop authentic prayer…
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Lesslie Newbigin · 1986 · Book
Foolishness to the Greeks emerged from Lesslie Newbigin's decades as a missionary in India and his later return to a secularized Britain in the 1970s. Having witnessed Christianity as a minority faith…
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World Bible Translation Center team · 1986 · Scripture
The International Children's Bible is an early example of a complete English Bible prepared specifically for children and developing readers. Its scope is the whole Bible, drawn from the Hebrew, Aramaic, and…
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New American Bible New American Bible — Revised New Testament
Catholic Biblical Association scholars · 1986 · Scripture
A major revision of the New American Bible's New Testament, this text stands within the tradition of Catholic biblical translation in English in the United States, undertaken under the sponsorship of the…
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Leon Morris · 1986 · Book
Leon Morris wrote this comprehensive New Testament theology during a period when evangelical scholars were increasingly engaging with critical biblical scholarship while maintaining commitment to Scripture's authority and reliability. Published in 1986,…
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Thomas Keating · 1986 · Book
Thomas Keating's Open Mind, Open Heart emerged from his decades of experience as a Trappist monk and his leadership in the contemplative prayer renewal movement that began in American Catholic monasteries during…
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Rowan Williams · 1987 · Book
Rowan Williams wrote this theological investigation as his doctoral dissertation at Oxford, later revised for publication during his tenure as a Cambridge professor. The work emerged from Williams' conviction that Arius, the…
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Yves Congar · 1987 · Book
Written in the final years of Yves Congar's life, this collection of autumn conversations represents the mature reflections of one of the twentieth century's most influential ecclesiologists. The work emerged from a…
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Yves Congar · 1987 · Book
Called to Life represents Yves Congar's mature reflections on Christian discipleship and the spiritual life, written in his final years as one of the twentieth century's most influential Catholic theologians. The work…
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Chance to Die A Chance to Die: The Life and Legacy of Amy Carmichael
Elisabeth Elliot · 1987 · Book
Elisabeth Elliot's biography of Amy Carmichael emerged from her deep study of a fellow missionary who had influenced her own calling. Writing forty years after Carmichael's death, Elliot drew on extensive correspondence,…
