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Romano Guardini · 1948 · Book
Romano Guardini's "Freiheit, Gnade, Schicksal" emerged from his lectures at the University of Tübingen in the immediate aftermath of World War II, as Germany grappled with questions of moral responsibility and human…
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Jim Elliot · 1948–1956 · Other
The journals of Jim Elliot comprise the personal spiritual reflections of a young American missionary during his college years at Wheaton and his brief but intense missionary service in Ecuador. Written between…
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Josef Pieper · 1948 · Essay
Josef Pieper's brief philosophical essay emerged from the intellectual and spiritual wasteland of post-war Germany, where the philosopher witnessed a culture consumed by work, productivity, and utilitarian thinking. Writing as both a…
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T. F. Letchworth · 1948 · Scripture
The Letchworth New Testament is a distinct, independent English rendering of the New Testament produced in the postwar period. Its scope is limited to the New Testament alone, translated from Greek and…
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T. S. Eliot · 1948 · Book
T. S. Eliot wrote these reflections on culture and society in the aftermath of World War II, when Western civilization seemed to many observers to be fragmenting or collapsing entirely. As a…
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Dorothy Day · 1948 · Book
On Pilgrimage is Dorothy Day's diary of a single year, 1948, written in monthly installments for The Catholic Worker and then gathered into a book. Day was in her early fifties, roughly…
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Jean Daniélou · 1948 · Book
Jean Daniélou's study of Origen emerged from the theological renewal movement in mid-twentieth-century French Catholicism, where scholars sought to recover patristic wisdom for contemporary Christian life. Writing in 1948 as part of…
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A. W. Tozer · 1948 · Book
A. W. Tozer's most influential work emerged from his growing concern that American evangelicalism in the 1940s had become satisfied with a shallow, experience-poor Christianity. Writing as pastor of Southside Alliance Church…
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A. W. Tozer · 1948 · Book
This brief collection of meditations emerged from A. W. Tozer's pastoral concern that modern Christianity had reduced faith to a human pursuit of God while overlooking the more fundamental reality of God's…
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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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Herman Dooyeweerd · 1948 · Book
This dense philosophical work emerged from Herman Dooyeweerd's decades-long project to develop a distinctively Christian philosophy that could engage modern secular thought without surrendering to its fundamental assumptions. Writing in the aftermath…
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Thomas Torrance · 1949 · Book
Thomas Torrance's Calvin's Doctrine of Man emerged from his doctoral dissertation at the University of Basel, written under the supervision of Karl Barth in the immediate aftermath of World War II. The…
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Divine Comedy The Divine Comedy by Dante, translated by Dorothy L. Sayers
Dorothy L. Sayers · 1949–1962 · Poem
Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy emerged from the political upheaval and personal exile that marked early fourteenth-century Florence. Written between 1308 and 1320 while Dante wandered in banishment from his beloved city, this…
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J. Gresham Machen · 1949 · Book
God Transcendent presents a collection of sermons and addresses J. Gresham Machen delivered during his final years as a professor at Westminster Theological Seminary and as a leader in the Orthodox Presbyterian…
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Thomas Merton · 1949 · Book
Seeds of Contemplation emerged from Thomas Merton's first decade as a Trappist monk at the Abbey of Gethsemani, written when he was still learning the disciplines of monastic life while discovering his…
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Thomas Merton · 1949 · Book
Thomas Merton's history of the Cistercian Order in America emerged from his own immersion in monastic life at the Abbey of Gethsemani in Kentucky. Writing just seven years after entering the monastery…
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F. F. Bruce · 1950 · Book
F. F. Bruce wrote this comprehensive introduction to the formation and transmission of the Bible during the post-war evangelical renaissance, when a new generation of scholars sought to demonstrate the historical reliability…
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A. W. Tozer · 1950 · Book
A. W. Tozer's The Divine Conquest emerged from his growing concern that American Christianity had become too comfortable with shallow religious experience. Writing in 1950 as pastor of Southside Alliance Church in…
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Edith Stein · 1950 · Treatise
Edith Stein's philosophical masterwork represents her mature synthesis of phenomenology and Thomistic metaphysics, written during her years as a Carmelite nun before her death at Auschwitz in 1942. The treatise emerged from…
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Henri de Lubac · 1950 · Book
Histoire et esprit emerged from Henri de Lubac's scholarly engagement with the Church Fathers and his concern over modern Catholic biblical interpretation. Writing in the aftermath of Pius XII's encyclical Divino Afflante…
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Anonymous New World Bible Translation Committee · 1950 · Scripture
A distinct modern English Bible, the New World Translation is foundational to Jehovah's Witnesses worldwide, produced under the auspices of the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society and issued in stages during…
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Georges Florovsky · 1950 · Essay
This essay by Georges Florovsky traces the theological roots of Byzantine iconoclasm back through the patristic period, arguing that the eighth and ninth-century controversies over religious images had deeper intellectual origins than…
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Angelo B. Traina · 1950 · Scripture
An early major English Bible of the Sacred Name movement, this edition comprises the complete Bible and is best classified as a revision or adaptation rather than a fresh translation. Its base…
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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,…
