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Origen of Alexandria · 1885 · Other
For readers who want the main works of Origen in English in one volume (with Tertullian's later works and others); the individual works are catalogued separately.
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Evelyn Underhill · 1911 · Book
Evelyn Underhill's comprehensive study emerged from her own spiritual searching and the early twentieth century's hunger for authentic religious experience amid increasing secularization. Writing as a laywoman in the Anglican tradition, Underhill…
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Henri de Lubac · 1938 · Book
Henri de Lubac wrote this foundational work of ecclesiology in 1938 as both a response to individualistic tendencies in modern spirituality and a systematic presentation of the Church's essentially communal nature. Published…
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Henri de Lubac · 1946 · Book
Henri de Lubac's Surnaturel emerged from his profound concern that modern Catholic theology had lost touch with the Church Fathers' understanding of human nature's orientation toward God. Writing in the aftermath of…
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Thomas Merton · 1948 · Book
Thomas Merton's spiritual autobiography chronicles his journey from secular intellectual to Trappist monk, written during his early years at the Abbey of Gethsemani in Kentucky. Published when Merton was thirty-three, the work…
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Jean Daniélou · 1950 · Book
Jean Daniélou's Sacramentum futuri emerged from the biblical renewal movement within mid-twentieth-century Catholic theology, when scholars were recovering the patristic understanding of Scripture's spiritual senses. Writing as both patrologist and biblical theologian,…
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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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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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Classic Christianity Classic Christianity: A Systematic Theology
Thomas Oden · 1992 · Book
Thomas Oden's Classic Christianity represents a condensed distillation of his three-volume systematic theology, offering what he termed "paleo-orthodoxy" — a return to the consensual tradition of the early church fathers. Writing in…
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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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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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Thomas Oden · 2002 · Book
The Justification Reader emerged from Thomas Oden's broader project of recovering and synthesizing the theological wisdom of the early church fathers and ecumenical tradition. Writing at a time when Protestant-Catholic dialogue had…
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How Africa Shaped the Christian Mind How Africa Shaped the Christian Mind: Rediscovering the African Seedbed of Western Christianity
Thomas Oden · 2007 · Book
Thomas Oden's historical investigation emerged from his decades-long engagement with early Christian texts and his growing recognition that Western Christianity had systematically obscured its African foundations. Writing as a Methodist theologian who…
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Desiring the Kingdom Desiring the Kingdom: Worship, Worldview, and Cultural Formation
James K. A. Smith · 2009 · Book
James K. A. Smith's influential work emerged from his conviction that contemporary Christianity had become too intellectualized, treating faith primarily as a matter of ideas and beliefs rather than embodied practices that…
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Heavenly Participation Heavenly Participation: The Weaving of a Sacramental Tapestry
Hans Boersma · 2011 · Book
Hans Boersma's systematic exploration of sacramental theology emerges from his conviction that modern Christianity has lost its moorings in a fundamentally sacramental understanding of reality. Writing as a Reformed theologian increasingly drawn…
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Peter Leithart · 2014 · Book
Peter Leithart's "Gratitude: An Intellectual History" emerges from his observation that modern philosophy and theology have largely neglected gratitude as a serious category for understanding human existence and divine-human relations. Writing as…
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You Are What You Love You Are What You Love: The Spiritual Power of Habit
James K. A. Smith · 2016 · Book
James K. A. Smith's accessible exploration of Christian discipleship emerges from his concern that contemporary evangelicalism has reduced faith to intellectual assent while neglecting the formative power of desire and habit. Writing…
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Scripture as Real Presence Scripture as Real Presence: Sacramental Exegesis in the Early Church
Hans Boersma · 2017 · Book
Hans Boersma's study emerges from contemporary debates over biblical interpretation, particularly the perceived divide between historical-critical scholarship and spiritual reading of Scripture. Writing as an Anglican theologian concerned with recovering pre-modern approaches…
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Fleming Rutledge · 2018 · Book
Fleming Rutledge's exploration of Advent emerges from her decades of preaching through the church calendar and her conviction that this liturgical season has been domesticated beyond recognition. Writing as an Episcopal priest…
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Rowan Williams · 2018 · Book
Rowan Williams' Being Human emerges from his conviction that contemporary culture has lost touch with what it means to be distinctively human, caught between reductive materialism and shallow spirituality. The former Archbishop…
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Seeing God Seeing God: The Beatific Vision in Christian Tradition
Hans Boersma · 2018 · Book
Hans Boersma's comprehensive theological study emerges from his conviction that modern Christianity has lost touch with one of its most central promises: the direct vision of God. Writing as an Anglican theologian…
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Embodied Exegesis Embodied Exegesis: Incarnation, Metaphysics, and Biblical Interpretation
Hans Boersma · 2020 · Book
Hans Boersma's Embodied Exegesis emerges from his sustained critique of modern biblical scholarship's separation of interpretation from metaphysical foundations. Writing as a systematic theologian deeply engaged with patristic thought, Boersma addresses what…
