100 Christian Books That Changed the Century

by Petersen, William J., and Randy Petersen

• ISBN13: 9780800757359
• ISBN10: 0800757351
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-09-01
• Publisher: Revell

Summary

In the twentieth century, a vibrant evangelical culture emerged. The authors explore the key books that influenced the dramatic changes of the past one hundred years.

Table of Contents

Preface	10	(13)
In His Steps (1899)	13	(2)
Charles Sheldon
The Evangelization of the World in This Generation (1900)	15	(2)
John R. Mott
Quiet Talks on Power (1901)	17	(2)
S. D. Gordon
Up from Slavery (1901)	19	(2)
Booker T. Washington
The Crises of the Christ (1903)	21	(2)
G. Campbell Morgan
Hurlbut's Story of the Bible (1904)	23	(2)
Jesse Lyman Hurlbut
Power through Prayer (1907)	25	(2)
E. M. Bounds
The Scofield Reference Bible (1909)	27	(2)
C. I. Scofield
Missionary Methods: St. Paul's or Ours (1912)	29	(2)
Roland Allen
War on the Saints (1912)	31	(2)
Jessie Penn-Lewis
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915)	33	(2)
James Orr
The Fundamentals (1919)	35	(3)
A. C. Dixon
Louis Meyer
R. A. Torrey
Christianity and Liberalism (1923)	38	(2)
J. Gresham Machen
Halley's Pocket Bible Handbook (1924)	40	(2)
Henry H. Halley
Orthodoxy (1925)	42	(2)
G. K. Chesterton
Streams in the Desert (1925)	44	(2)
Lettie Cowman
The Christ of the Indian Road (1925)	46	(2)
E. Stanley Jones
My Utmost for His Highest (1927)	48	(2)
Oswald Chambers
The Basis of Christian Faith (1927)	50	(2)
Floyd E. Hamilton
Religion That Works (1928)	52	(2)
Samuel M. Shoemaker
Who Moved the Stone? (1930)	54	(2)
Frank Morison
Prayer (1931)	56	(2)
Ole Hallesby
A Diary of Private Prayer (1936)	58	(2)
John Baillie
Church Dogmatics (1936)	60	(2)
Karl Barth
Worship (1936)	62	(2)
Evelyn Underhill
The Cost of Discipleship (1937)	64	(2)
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The Witness (1937)	66	(2)
Grace Livingston Hill
If (1938)	68	(2)
Amy Carmichael
The Mind of the Maker (1941)	70	(2)
Dorothy L. Sayers
The Robe (1942)	72	(2)
Lloyd C. Douglas
The Screwtape Letters (1942)	74	(2)
C. S. Lewis
The Uneasy Conscience of Modern Fundamentalism (1947)	76	(2)
Carl F. H. Henry
The Seven Storey Mountain (1948)	78	(2)
Thomas Merton
Cry, the Beloved Country (1948)	80	(2)
Alan Paton
The Pursuit of God (1948)	82	(2)
A. W. Tozer
The Archaeology of Palestine (1949)	84	(2)
William Foxwell Albright
Peace of Soul (1949)	86	(2)
Fulton J. Sheen
Here I Stand: A Life of Martin Luther (1950)	88	(2)
Roland H. Bainton
The Chronicles of Narnia (1950)	90	(2)
C. S. Lewis
A Man Called Peter (1951)	92	(2)
Catherine Marshall
Christ and Culture (1951)	94	(2)
H. Richard Niebuhr
Mere Christianity (1952)	96	(3)
C. S. Lewis
The Power of Positive Thinking (1952)	99	(2)
Norman Vincent Peale
Your God Is Too Small (1952)	101	(2)
J. B. Phillips
The Daily Study Bible (1953)	103	(2)
William Barclay
New Bible Commentary (1953)	105	(2)
F. Davidson
A. M. Stibbs
E. F. Kevan
Peace with God (1953)	107	(2)
Billy Graham
The Household of God (1953)	109	(2)
Lesslie Newbigin
The Christian View of Science and Scripture (1954)	111	(2)
Bernard Ramm
The Bridges of God (1955)	113	(2)
Donald Anderson McGavran
The Burden Is Light (1955)	115	(2)
Eugenia Price
Second Thoughts on the Dead Sea Scrolls (1956)	117	(2)
F. F. Bruce
Through Gates of Splendor (1957)	119	(2)
Elisabeth Elliot
The Meaning of Persons (1957)	121	(2)
Paul Tournier
Stride toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story (1958)	123	(2)
Martin Luther King Jr.
Basic Christianity (1958)	125	(2)
John Stott
The Gospel Blimp (1960)	127	(2)
Joseph T. Bayly
The Psychology of Counseling (1960)	129	(2)
Clyde M. Narramore
The New Bible Dictionary (1961)	131	(2)
J. D. Douglas
The Company of the Committed (1961)	133	(2)
Elton Trueblood
The Genesis Flood (1961)	135	(2)
John C. Whttcomb
Henry M. Morris
Man: The Image of God (1962)	137	(2)
G. C. Berkouwer
A Wrinkle in Time (1962)	139	(2)
Madeleine L'Engle
Living Letters (1962)	141	(2)
Kenneth N. Taylor
The Cross and the Switchblade (1963)	143	(2)
David Wilkerson
John
Elizabeth Sherrill
They Speak with Other Tongues (1964)	145	(2)
John Sherrill
Spiritual Depression (1965)	147	(2)
Martyn Lloyd-Jones
The Kingdom of the Cults (1965)	149	(2)
Walter R. Martin
The Taste of New Wine (1965)	151	(2)
Keith Miller
Know Why You Believe (1967)	153	(2)
Paul E. Little
Christy (1967)	155	(2)
Catherine Marshall
Move Ahead with Possibility Thinking (1967)	157	(2)
Robert H. Schuller
The God Who Is There (1968)	159	(2)
Francis Schaeffer
Dare to Discipline (1970)	161	(2)
James Dobson
The Meaning of the City (1970)	163	(2)
Jacques Ellul
The Late Great Planet Earth (1970)	165	(2)
Hal Lindsey with
Carole C. Carlson
Eighth Day of Creation (1971)	167	(2)
Elizabeth O'Connor
The Hiding Place (1971)	169	(2)
Corrie ten Boom
John
Elizabeth Sherrill
Evidence That Demands a Verdict (1972)	171	(2)
Josh McDowell
The Wounded Healer (1972)	173	(2)
Henri Nouwen
The Total Woman (1973)	175	(2)
Marabel Morgan
Knowing God (1973)	177	(2)
J. I. Packer
The Gulag Archipelago (1973)	179	(2)
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
All We're Meant to Be (1974)	181	(3)
Letha Scanzoni
Nancy Hardesty
Born Again (1976)	184	(3)
Charles Colson
Joni (1976)	187	(2)
Joni Eareckson with
Joe Musser
The Battle for the Bible (1976)	189	(2)
Harold Lindsell
Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger (1977)	191	(2)
Ron Sider
Celebration of Discipline (1978)	193	(2)
Richard J. Foster
Telling the Truth (1979)	195	(2)
Frederick Buechner
Where Does a Mother Go to Resign? (1979)	197	(2)
Barbara Johnson
Out of the Saltshaker and into the World (1979)	199	(2)
Rebecca Manley Pippert
With Justice for All (1982)	201	(2)
John Perkins
Worship Is a Verb (1985)	203	(2)
Robert Webber
This Present Darkness (1987)	205	(2)
Frank Peretti
The Man in the Mirror (1989)	207	(2)
Patrick M. Morley
Experiencing God (1990)	209	(2)
Henry T. Blackaby
Claude V. King
Disappointment with God (1990)	211	(2)
Philip Yancey
Left Behind (1995)	213	(2)
Tim LaHaye
Jerry B. Jenkins
The Purpose-Driven Church (1995)	215	(4)
Rick Warren
The Runners-Up	219	(2)
Index of Names	221