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Charles Simeon · 1847 · Book
These memoirs chronicle the life and ministry of Charles Simeon, the influential Anglican evangelical who served as vicar of Holy Trinity Church, Cambridge, for fifty-four years until his death in 1836. Compiled…
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Horatius Bonar · 1847 · Book
Horatius Bonar's "Prophetical Landmarks" emerged from the intense prophetic speculation of mid-nineteenth century Scotland, where debates over the timing of Christ's return and the interpretation of biblical prophecy divided Reformed churches. Writing…
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Thomas Boston · 1848–1852 · Other
Thomas Boston's Complete Works gathers the theological writings of the eighteenth-century Scottish Presbyterian minister who became one of the most influential figures in Reformed orthodoxy. Boston served the rural parish of Ettrick…
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Peshitta Etheridge Peshitta New Testament
John Wesley Etheridge · 1849 · Scripture
One of the earliest complete English translations of the Syriac Peshitta New Testament, this work renders the whole of the New Testament from Syriac, taking the Peshitta both as its base text…
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Søren Kierkegaard · 1849 · Book
Søren Kierkegaard's "The Sickness Unto Death" emerged from his lifelong wrestling with what it means to exist as a self before God. Published in 1849 under the pseudonym Anti-Climacus, this psychological exposition…
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Sojourner Truth · 1850 · Book
The Narrative of Sojourner Truth emerged from the collaboration between the illiterate but eloquent former slave Isabella Baumfree, who had taken the name Sojourner Truth, and her friend Olive Gilbert, who recorded…
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New Testament Commonly Received Version of the New Testament
Spencer H. Cone and William H. Wyckoff · 1850 · Scripture
The Commonly Received Version of the New Testament was an early Baptist effort to revise the King James Version New Testament into American English. Its scope was limited to the New Testament,…
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John Owen · 1850–1855 · Other
John Owen's collected works represent the theological output of perhaps the most significant Puritan divine of the seventeenth century. Writing during the tumultuous decades of English civil war, Commonwealth, and Restoration, Owen…
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Sojourner Truth · 1851 · Sermon
Sojourner Truth delivered this brief but powerful address at the Women's Convention in Akron, Ohio, in May 1851. The convention brought together women's rights activists at a time when the movement faced…
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Horatius Bonar · 1851 · Book
Horatius Bonar wrote this exploration of Christ's second coming during a period of intense eschatological interest in nineteenth-century Scotland. As a leading figure in the Free Church of Scotland and influenced by…
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James Murdock · 1851 · Scripture
A major nineteenth-century American English translation of the Syriac Peshitta New Testament, known by the name of its translator, Murdock. Its scope is limited to the New Testament, rendered from Syriac, with…
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John Henry Newman · 1852 · Book
John Henry Newman's "The Idea of a University" emerged from his appointment as rector of the Catholic University of Ireland in Dublin, founded in response to the exclusion of Catholics from Trinity…
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Isaac Leeser · 1853 · Scripture
The Leeser Bible, published as The Twenty-Four Books of the Holy Scriptures, was the first complete Jewish English translation of the Tanakh to appear in the United States. Its scope is the…
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B. F. Westcott · 1855 · Book
Westcott's General Survey emerged from the mid-nineteenth century debates over biblical authority and the growing application of historical criticism to Scripture. Writing as a young Cambridge scholar, Westcott sought to provide a…
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Francisco Suárez · 1856–1878 · Other
Francisco Suárez's Opera Omnia represents the comprehensive collection of works by the Spanish Jesuit theologian who became known as Doctor Eximius for his extraordinary philosophical and theological acumen. Writing in the late…
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J. C. Ryle · 1856–1873 · Commentary
J. C. Ryle's "Expository Thoughts on the Gospels" emerged from his pastoral conviction that ordinary Christians needed clear, practical exposition of Scripture's most fundamental texts. Writing as Bishop of Liverpool during the…
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John Barrow, George Moberly, Henry Alford, William G. Humphry, Charles J. Ellicott and associates · 1857 · Scripture
Known as the Revision by Five Clergymen, this undertaking is a representative private clerical revision project that immediately preceded the official Revised Version. Its scope was limited to selected books of the…
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Charles Spurgeon · 1857 · Book
Charles Spurgeon wrote this devotional work early in his ministry at New Park Street Chapel, drawing from his preaching and pastoral experience with believers struggling to understand their relationship with Christ. Published…
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Horatius Bonar · 1858 · Book
Night of Weeping emerged from Horatius Bonar's pastoral ministry in the Scottish Free Church during the mid-nineteenth century, when Scotland faced waves of emigration, economic hardship, and social upheaval. Bonar, deeply influenced…
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Leicester Ambrose Sawyer · 1858 · Scripture
The Sawyer New Testament is an independent American translation of the New Testament, undertaken with the aim of contemporary intelligibility and critical accuracy. It covers the New Testament alone, rendered from Greek…
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Female Ministry Female Ministry: or, Woman's Right to Preach the Gospel
Catherine Booth · 1859 · Treatise
Catherine Booth's treatise emerged from her direct confrontation with ministerial opposition to women's preaching in mid-nineteenth-century Methodism. When Wesleyan ministers challenged the propriety of women speaking publicly on spiritual matters, Booth responded…
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Charles Wellbeloved, John Scott Porter, George Vance Smith · 1859 · Scripture
The Wellbeloved–Smith–Porter Old Covenant, named for the three scholars associated with it, is a substantial independent rendering of the Old Testament produced within English Unitarian circles, a tradition that took a marked…
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Theophan the Recluse · 1860–1894 · Letter
The Collected Letters of Theophan the Recluse represent nearly three decades of spiritual correspondence from one of nineteenth-century Russia's most influential monastic teachers. Written between the 1860s and his death in 1894,…
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B. F. Westcott · 1860 · Book
Westcott's Introduction emerged from his work as a Cambridge professor during the mid-nineteenth century renaissance of English biblical scholarship. Writing at a time when German higher criticism was challenging traditional approaches to…
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