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C. S. Lewis · 1941 · Essay
"The Weight of Glory" began as a sermon delivered by C.S. Lewis at the University Church of St. Mary the Virgin in Oxford on June 8, 1941. Preaching to a congregation living…
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Martyn Lloyd-Jones · 1942 · Book
This book emerged from a series of lectures Martyn Lloyd-Jones delivered at Westminster Chapel in London during 1942, as the Second World War raged and Western civilization faced unprecedented crisis. Writing amid…
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C. S. Lewis · 1942 · Book
The Screwtape Letters is a work of satirical Christian apologetics disguised as correspondence between two demons. C. S. Lewis wrote these fictional letters during the early years of World War II, originally…
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C. S. Lewis · 1943 · Book
The Abolition of Man emerged from three lectures C. S. Lewis delivered at Durham University in 1943, during the height of World War II. Lewis was responding to what he saw as…
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Dorothy L. Sayers · 1943 · Other
The Man Born to Be King is a cycle of twelve radio plays dramatizing the life of Christ from Nativity to Resurrection, written by Dorothy L. Sayers for BBC Radio during World…
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F. F. Bruce · 1943 · Book
F. F. Bruce's compact defense of New Testament reliability emerged from his work as a classical scholar at the University of Manchester, where his expertise in ancient Greek and Roman history positioned…
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Amy Carmichael · 1943 · Book
Though the Mountains Shake emerged from Amy Carmichael's final years leading the Dohnavur Fellowship in Tamil Nadu, India, written as World War II raged across the globe. Published in 1943, this collection…
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Henri de Lubac · 1944 · Book
Henri de Lubac's groundbreaking historical study emerged from the theological ferment of mid-twentieth-century France, where Catholic scholars were recovering patristic and medieval sources while engaging modern challenges to ecclesiology. Writing during the…
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Vladimir Lossky · 1944 · Book
Vladimir Lossky's foundational work emerged from his position as a Russian Orthodox theologian in exile, writing in French during World War II to bridge the gap between Eastern Orthodox theology and Western…
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Jean Daniélou · 1944 · Book
Jean Daniélou's groundbreaking study emerged from the mid-twentieth century revival of patristic scholarship, when scholars were rediscovering the theological richness of the early church fathers. Writing during World War II, Daniélou sought…
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Sergei Bulgakov · 1945 · Book
The Bride of the Lamb represents the culmination of Sergei Bulgakov's systematic theology, written during his final years as a professor at the Orthodox Theological Institute of Saint Sergius in Paris. Completed…
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A. W. Pink · 1945 · Commentary
Arthur W. Pink's exposition of John's Gospel emerged from his decades of pastoral ministry and Bible teaching during the early twentieth century. Originally delivered as a series of studies through his magazine…
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C. S. Lewis · 1945 · Book
The Great Divorce began as a series of weekly installments in The Guardian newspaper during 1944-1945, as Lewis crafted a fictional journey between heaven and hell to explore the nature of human…
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Oswald Chambers · 1946 · Book
This collection emerged from the profound conviction that guided all of Oswald Chambers' teaching: that the Holy Spirit's primary work is to glorify Christ by making Him real in the believer's experience.…
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Cornelius Van Til · 1946 · Book
Van Til's brief yet penetrating analysis emerged from his growing concern that orthodox Reformed theology faced a subtler threat than the liberal modernism of the early twentieth century. Writing in the aftermath…
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Frank Laubach · 1946 · Book
Frank Laubach wrote this compact manifesto on prayer from his unique position as both a missionary educator and a global literacy pioneer. Having spent decades developing reading programs across the developing world,…
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Division of Christian Education, National Council of Churches committee · 1946 · Scripture
One of the central ancestor texts of modern English Bible translation, the Revised Standard Version covers the complete Bible, rendered from Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek. It is best classified not as a…
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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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Jacques Ellul · 1946 · Book
Jacques Ellul's first major theological work emerged from his dual expertise as both a professor of law at the University of Bordeaux and a committed Reformed Christian wrestling with the relationship between…
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Dorothy L. Sayers · 1947 · Essay
"Creed or Chaos?" emerged from a lecture Dorothy Sayers delivered in 1940 to a gathering of clergy and lay leaders grappling with Christianity's role during the upheaval of World War II. Writing…
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Karl Barth · 1947 · Book
Dogmatik im Grundriß emerged from Karl Barth's lectures at the University of Bonn during the winter semester of 1946-47, delivered to a generation of German theology students whose education had been interrupted…
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C. S. Lewis · 1947 · Book
Lewis wrote this philosophical defense of the supernatural in response to the scientific materialism that dominated intellectual discourse in the mid-twentieth century. As Darwin's theories and modern physics reshaped how educated people…
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George Swann · 1947 · Scripture
The Swann New Testament is a distinct mid-century English rendering of the New Testament, produced during a period in which numerous independent translators issued versions in contemporary idiom. Its scope is limited…
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Karl Barth · 1947 · Book
Karl Barth's sweeping survey of Protestant theology emerged from his lecture courses at Bonn and Basel during the 1930s and 1940s, published in 1947 as he sought to understand how nineteenth-century theological…
