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Richard Foster · 1992 · Book
Richard Foster wrote this comprehensive guide to prayer following the widespread success of his earlier work on spiritual disciplines, responding to countless requests for deeper teaching on the prayer life specifically. Drawing…
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Two Worlds Two Worlds: Notes on the Death of Modernity in America and Russia
Thomas Oden · 1992 · Book
Thomas Oden's prescient analysis emerged in the pivotal year of 1992, as the Soviet Union had just collapsed and American liberal democracy seemed triumphant. Yet Oden, writing as both a theologian who…
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Kathleen Norris · 1993 · Book
Dakota: A Spiritual Geography emerged from Kathleen Norris's unexpected return to her grandmother's house in Lemmon, South Dakota, a small town on the edge of the Great Plains. After two decades as…
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Lamin Sanneh · 1993 · Book
Encountering the West: Christianity and the Global Cultural Process: The African Dimension is Lamin Sanneh's extended argument with a consensus that had hardened by the early 1990s — that Christian mission in…
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John Main · 1993 · Book
Word Made Flesh represents John Main's mature synthesis of Christian meditation as both ancient practice and contemporary necessity. Drawing from his pioneering work establishing the World Community for Christian Meditation, Main addresses…
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Alister McGrath · 1995 · Book
Alister McGrath's anthology emerged from his experience teaching systematic theology at Oxford and recognizing that students needed accessible exposure to primary theological sources spanning two millennia of Christian thought. Rather than relying…
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American Bible Society translation team led by Barclay M. Newman · 1995 · Scripture
The Contemporary English Version is a complete translation of the Bible, rendered from the Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek and working from modern critical editions of the original-language texts. It was designed explicitly…
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Hearing the New Testament Hearing the New Testament: Strategies for Interpretation
Joel B. Green · 1995 · Book
This comprehensive handbook emerged from the recognition that biblical interpretation in the late twentieth century required a more sophisticated engagement with both traditional and emerging hermeneutical approaches. Green assembled leading New Testament…
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Lesslie Newbigin · 1995 · Book
Lesslie Newbigin's final major work emerged from his decades-long wrestling with the epistemological challenges facing Christian faith in a pluralistic, post-Enlightenment world. Having spent much of his career as a missionary in…
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Joel B. Green · 1995 · Book
Joel Green's systematic exploration of Luke's Gospel emerged from the renaissance of interest in narrative theology and the distinctive voice of each evangelist that marked late twentieth-century biblical scholarship. Writing against earlier…
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Kathleen Norris · 1996 · Book
The Cloister Walk emerges from Kathleen Norris's nine-month residency as an artist-in-residence at St. John's Abbey in Collegeville, Minnesota, where this Protestant poet immersed herself in the rhythms of Benedictine monastic life.…
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Lamin Sanneh · 1996 · Book
Lamin Sanneh's The Crown and the Turban is a historical and political argument about Islam, Christianity, and the possibility of pluralism in West Africa. Sanneh — born in Gambia, raised Muslim, later…
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Henri Nouwen · 1996 · Book
The Inner Voice of Love emerged from Henri Nouwen's most difficult period, a season of severe depression and emotional breakdown in the late 1980s that brought him to the edge of despair.…
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Andrew Walls · 1996 · Book
Andrew Walls wrote these studies in mission history during his decades teaching at the University of Aberdeen and University of Edinburgh, where he pioneered the academic study of world Christianity. The collection…
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Henri Nouwen · 1997 · Book
Bread for the Journey represents Henri Nouwen's final gift to readers seeking daily spiritual nourishment, compiled during his last years at L'Arche Daybreak community in Toronto. Published posthumously in 1997, this collection…
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Amazing Grace Amazing Grace: A Vocabulary of Faith
Kathleen Norris · 1998 · Book
Amazing Grace emerged from Kathleen Norris's struggle with the language of Christianity after her return to faith as an adult. Having grown up in a secular household and spent decades away from…
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Thomas Oden · 1998–2009 · Commentary
The Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture represents Thomas Oden's ambitious project to recover the biblical interpretation of the church fathers for contemporary readers. Launched in 1998 and completed in 2009, this twenty-nine-volume…
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Dallas Willard · 1998 · Book
The Divine Conspiracy emerged from Dallas Willard's decades of wrestling with what he saw as a fundamental misunderstanding plaguing modern Christianity: the reduction of the gospel to mere forgiveness of sins and…
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Quotidian Mysteries The Quotidian Mysteries: Laundry, Liturgy and 'Women's Work'
Kathleen Norris · 1998 · Book
This extended meditation emerged from Kathleen Norris's experience as a Benedictine oblate and her years of living in rural South Dakota, where she discovered profound spiritual significance in the repetitive tasks of…
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Richard Foster · 1998 · Book
Richard Foster's comprehensive survey of Christian spiritual traditions emerged from his conviction that the modern church had become fragmented, with different denominations and movements emphasizing isolated aspects of spiritual life while losing…
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Lamin Sanneh · 1999 · Book
Lamin Sanneh's Abolitionists Abroad: American Blacks and the Making of Modern West Africa is a work of historical argument written against a settled consensus. By the late twentieth century, two readings of…
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Lesslie Newbigin · 1999 · Book
A Walk Through the Bible emerges from Lesslie Newbigin's decades of missionary experience in India and his later engagement with the challenge of mission in post-Christian Western culture. Written in his final…
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Brennan Manning · 2000 · Book
The Ruthless Trust emerged from Brennan Manning's decades of ministry to those wounded by religious perfectionism and his own struggles with alcoholism and shame. Writing as a former Franciscan priest who had…
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Kathleen Norris · 2001 · Book
Kathleen Norris's spiritual memoir chronicles her unlikely journey from secular literary ambitions to Christian faith through the lens of her college years at Bennington in the late 1960s. Writing three decades after…
