The Dust of Death(1973)

Henry's major works or writings:

Jesus of Nazareth (1966)
Twilight of a Great Civilization (1988)

Lindsey's major works or writings:

The Late Great Planet Earth (1970)

Geisler's major works or writings:

Inerrancy (1979)

Berkouwer's major works or writings:

Faith and Justification (1949)
Studies in Dogmatics(1952)
Heilige Schrift(1966-67) (Holy Scripture) (1975)

Malcolm Muggeridge (1903-1990)

Muggeridge's major works or writings:

A Third Testament (1976)
The End of Christendom
Vintage Muggeridge (1985)

English

Farrer's major works or writings:

Faith and Speculation (1967)

Newbigin's major works or writings:

The Open Secret (1978) (critical of universalism)

Thielicke's major works or writings:

Theological Ethics (1955)
The Evangelical Faith (1968-1978)

Francis Schaeffer  (1912-1984)

Schaeffer was a strong individualist who approached Christianity from the vantagepoint that it alone truly had the answers to the kinds of questions that modern culture raises--the existence of God in a materialistic universe, the humanity of man in a mechanistic culture.  His individualism was particularly pronounced in the format by which he presented his thoughts--in his own living room before a group of young, usually college-age guests, at the family chalet in Switzerland called L'abri (the Shelter).

But his discussions became widely recognized as insightful--and when in 1960 Time magazine wrote about this strange miniature seminary at home, he came into international notice.  Then in 1968, when he was 56 years old, his first book was published from a series of lectures he presented at Wheaton College.  From then on the published work began to come forth in great quantities.

Finally, he put his challenge to late-modern Western culture before his audience in the form of a movie, produced in the period 1976-1977 by his son Franky from Francis' book How Shall We Then Live?  This was followed up in 1979 with another film, Whatever Happened to the Human Race?, again produced by son Franky--in cooperation with C. Everett Koop.  The subject here was abortion--and was a strong indictment of the way in which modern life dehumanizes humanity. Though the second effort seemed not to draw audiences, which was a big disappointment to Schaeffer, in fact it probably had a greater impact on shaping the direction of Evangelical Christianity than the earlier effort.

Schaeffer's major works or writings:

The God Who Is There (1968)
Escape from Reason (1968)
He Is There and He Is Not Silent (1972)
How Should We Then Live? (1976)
Whatever Happened to the Human Race? (1979)
A Christian Manifesto (1980)
The Great Evangelical Disaster (1984)

Moltmann's major works or writings:

Theology of Hope(1965)
The Crucified God(1972)
The Church in the Power of the Spirit (1975)
The Trinity and the Kingdom of God (1980)

Pannenberg's major works or writings:

Revelation as History(1961)
Jesus--God and Man (1964)
Theology and the Philosophy of Science (1976)
The Church(1983)

Braaten's major works or writings:

Eschatology and Ethics(1974)
Justification (1990)

Stott's major works or writings:

Basic Christianity (1958)

The major works or writings resulting from the conference:

The Lausanne Covenant

Sproul's major works or writings:

The Holiness of God (1985)
Chosen By God (1986)
Not a Chance: The Myth of Chance in Modern Science and Cosmology (1994)

Cox's major works or writings:

Many Mansions (1988) (critical of universalism)
Religion in the Secular City
Fire from Heaven:  The rise of Pentecostal Spirituality and the Reshaping of Religion in the Twenty-First Century (1994)

Graham was born on a farm near Charlotte, North Carolina.  He underwent a strong conversion experience at age 16, which set the course of his life from then on.  He undertook studies at at Bob Jones University and the Florida Bible Institute before being  ordained a Southern Baptist preacher in 1940.   He continued his studies at Wheaton College, Illinois, and graduated in 1943 with a degree in anthropology.  He served as pastor of a Baptist church in Illinois-- before undertaking a new career as itinerant evangelist.

Graham's major works or writings:

Peace with God (1952)
World Aflame (1965)
Just As I Am:  The Autobiography of Billy Graham (1997)

Chuck Colson

Colson's major works or writings:

Against the Night (1989)
The Body (1992)

James Dobson

Dobson's major works or writings:

Focus on the Family

Pius XII's major works or writings:

Mystici corporis Christi (1943)
Munificentissimus Deus (1950) the doctrine of the Assumption of Mary
Humani generis (1950)

Gilson's major works or writings:

The Christian Philosophy of St. Thomas Aquinas(1961)

John XXIII's major works or writings:

Mater et magistra(1961)
Pacem in terris (1963)

Küng's major works or writings:

Justification(1957)
The Church (1967)
Infallible? (1970)
On Being a Christian (1974)
Does God Exist?(1978)
Eternal Life (1985) (ed.)
Paradigm Change in Theology (with David Tracey)

The major works or writings resulting from Vatican II:

Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy
Declaration on the Relationship of the Church to Non-Christian Religions
Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World
Dogmatic Constitution on the Church
Dogmatic Constitution on Divine Revelation
Decree on Ecumenism

Paul VI's major works or writings:

Humanae vitae (1968) encyclical opposing all forms of articifial birth control
Evangelization in the Modern World (1975)

Bernard Lonergan

Rahner's major works or writings:

(ed.) Encyclopedia of Theology
Theological Investigations
Foundations of the Christian Faith (1976)
On the Theology of Death(1961)
Hearers of the Word
Meditations on the Sacraments (1977)

Schillebeeckx's major works or writings:

Jesus: An Experiment in Christology (1977)
Interim Report(1981)

Born in Wadowice, Poland, as Karol Wojtyla.  He was ordained a Catholic priest in 1946.  He received a doctorate in theology in 1948 at the Angelicum in Rome. From 1948 to 1951 he served as a parish priest in Krakow.  In 1952 he became a professor of moral philosophy at at the Krakow Seminary.  In 1956 he received a similar appointment at the University of Lublin.  In 1958 he was appointed auxiliary Bishop and then in 1964 Archbishop of Kracow.  He was very active at Vatican II, and was a key source of the writing of some of the documents emerging from Vatican II.  In 1967 he received the appointment as Cardinal.

In 1976 he preached the Lenten sermons to the Papal Household--indicating his rising status within the hierarchy.

In 1978 he was elected Pope, the first non-Italian elevated to that office since the early-1500s.

One of the characteristic features of his pontificat has been his effort to promote Catholic spirituality--and the role of Mary as joint source of salvation ("corredemptrix") with Jesus Christ.

John Paul II's major works or writings:

Love and Responsibility (1960)

He was born in Prades, southern France (near the Spanish border) to an artistic New Zealander father and American mother.  Then after the early death of his mother, he moved to England and the U.S.A.

He received both the bachelor's and master's degrees in English (1939) from Columbia University.  He subsequently taught English--and then went to work in a Harlem settlement house in New York city. But experiencing a deep religious conversion, in 1941 he entered a Trappist monastery at Gethsemani, Kentucky.

His writing talents soon gained him widespread recognition as a religious writer--particularly after the publication in 1948 of his autobiography, The Seven Storey Mountain.   In the life of the monastery he assumed the natural role as teacher.

But eventually his interests expanded into social concerns and in the 1960s he became deeply involved in the antiwar movement.

Merton's major works or writings:

The Seven Storey Mountain (1948)
No Man Is an Island
Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander(1968)

Nouwen's major works or writings:

The Living Reminder

Founded the Society of the Missionaries of Charity in the slums of Calcutta in 1948.   Her desire was to bring comfort and dignity to impoverished and dying Indians--a daunting task, given the size of the problem in Calcutta.  But she remained undaunted--and eventually expanded her work by establishing other such Societies in various parts of the larger world. Her work succeeded in becoming widely recognized--both by church, charity and international relief organizations and by the broader world community.  She was a profound source of inspiration for many to take up the task of giving aid and support to the forgotten ones of the world.

Mother Teresa's major works or writings:

A Gift for God:  Prayers and Meditations (1975)
The Love of Christ:  Spiritual Counsels (1982)
Life in the Spirit: Reflections, Meditations, Prayers (1983)

Martin Luther King Jr. (-1968)

"Letter from Birmingham Jail" Christian Century (1963)

Major works or writings resulting from meetings of the World Council of Churches:

Uppsala Conference (1968)
    Renewal in Mission (liberationist)
Bankok Conference on World Mission and Evangelicalism (1973)
    Salvation Today (liberationist: written by Moltmann)
Nairobi Conference (1975)
   Confessing Christ Today (more truly evangelical)
Vancouver Conference (1983)
    An Ecumenical Affirmation (in closer conformity to Roman Catholics and Evangelicals)
Second Latin American Episcopal Conference

Colombian priest killed in 1966

Bloch's major works or writings:

The Philosophy of Hope (3 vols. 1985)

Peruvian

Gutiérrez's major works or writings:

A Theology of Liberation (1971)
We Drink from Our Own Wells (1984)

Mexican

Miranda's major works or writings:

Marx and the Bible (1971)
Being and the Messiah (1973)
Communism in the Bible(1981)

Salvadoran

Sobrino's major works or writings:

Christology at the Crossroads (1978)
Jesus in Latin America(1981)

Boff's major works or writings:

Jesus Christ Liberator (1978)
The Church (1985)
Passion of Christ, Passion of the World (1988)

Uruguyan Jesuit

Segundo's major works or writings:

A Theology for the Artisans of a New Humanity (5 vols: 1968-1972)
The Liberation of Theology (1975)
Jesus of Nazareth Yesterday and Today (5 vols: 1984-1988)

Argentinian Protestant

Bonino's major works or writings:

Doing Theology in a Revolutionary Situation (1975)
Revolutionary Theology Comes of Age
Christians and Marxists (1976)

Anglican Archbishop Emeritus of South Africa.  Secretary general of the South African Council of Churches.  Received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984.

Born in Klerksdorp, Transvaal in 1931.  Raised in a family in which his father was a teacher and he himself expected eventually to become a teacher.  He studied at the Pretoria Bantu Normal College.  In 1954 he graduated from the University of South Africa.  He taught school for three years.

But he decided to pursue theology and in 1960 was ordained as an Anglican priest.  In 1962 he resumed his theological studies, this time in England however.  In 1966 he received a Master of Theology degree.  He returned to South Africa to teach theology, from 1967 to 1972.  Then he went back to England, to serve three years as assistant director of a theological center in London.

Cone's major works or writings:

Black Theology and Black Power (1969)
God of the Oppressed (1975)

Mary Daly

Daly's major works or writings:

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Rosemary Radford Reuther

Radford Reuther's major works or writings:

Liberation Theology (1972)
Religion and Sexism (1974)
New Woman, New Earth (1975)
To Change the World (1981)
Sexism and God-Talk (1983)

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Letty M. Russell

Russell's major works or writings:

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Virginia Ramey Mollenkott

Mollenkott's major works or writings:

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Jacquelyn Grant White

White's major works or writings:

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Susan Griffin

Griffin's major works or writings:

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Carol P. Christ

Christ's major works or writings:

former Dominican scholar; director of the Institute in Culture and Creation Spirituality

On Becoming a Musical, Mystical Bear
Whee, Wee, We, All the Way Home (1981)
Original Blessing (1983)
Manifesto for a Global Civilization
The Coming of the Cosmic Christ (1988)

Jesuit theologian

God and the Universe of Faiths (1973)
Philosophy of Religion(1983)

The Power of Positive Thinking

PowerEvangelism (1986)

We include Pierre Teilhard de Chardin here in this section because it really was only until after his death in 1955 that his real influence began in the West.

He was born in Sarcenat, France.  He studied geology and paleontology and lectured in science at the Jesuit College in Cairo, Egypt.  He was ordained a Jesuit priest in 1911--and continued in service as a teacher.  In 1918 he became a professor of geology at the Catholic Institute (Institut Catholique) in Paris.  He was an active field researcher in paleontology, journeying to China and Central Asia.

As a development from his paleontological studies he ventured into the realm of humanistic studies.  His ideas were quite unorthodox in his time--at least for a Jesuit priest.  Basically he viewed the human experience as something still underway in its development--moving ever forward to perfection.  As he put it, all creation is moving forward to the "Omega Point," when everything will be climaxed (redemptively) in Christ.  The"cosmic Christ" is himself evolving with the human order.  Sin is the by-product of the struggle of the present order toward such perfection

Teilhard de Chardin's major works or writings:

Le milieu divin
The Phenomenon of Man(1959)
The Future of Man
Man's Place in Nature(1966)
Human Energy (1969)
Christianity and Evolution (1971)

Hartshorne's major works or writings:

The Divine Reality (1948)

Pittenger's major works or writings:

The Word Incarnate (1959)
"The Last Things" in a Process Perspective (1970)
Picturing God

Cobb's major works or writings:

Is It Too Late?(1972)
Process Theology(1976) (with David Ray Griffin)