The Book of Saints: The Modern Era

by Al Truesdale

Overview

At the dawn of the twentieth century, as human knowledge and progress were lauded and many predicted the demise of Christianity, Christian leaders and thinkers spoke up fervently for the Christian faith. While acknowledging the achievements of modernity, these astute Christ-followers eloquently affirmed Christian revelation as the guarantor of human value. In this volume of the Book of Saints series are the counsel and reflections of many of the modern era's most profound witnesses to Christ.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780834136267
Publisher:	Nazarene Publishing House
Publication date:	04/01/2018
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

AL TRUESDALE is emeritus professor of Philosophy of Religion and Christian Ethics at Nazarene Theological Seminary. Truesdale has authored numerous books, including A Dangerous Hope, If God Is God, Then Why?, and With Cords of Love. He and his wife, Esther, live in the historic South Caroline low country.

Table of Contents

Introduction 9

Abraham Kuyper (1837-1920) 13

Peter T. Forsyth (1848-1921) 19

James Denney (1856-1917) 30

Pandita Ramabai (1858-1922) 32

Walter Rauschenbusch (1861-1918) 40

John R. Mott (1865-1955) 46

G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936) 50

John XXIII (1881-1963) 60

E. Stanley Jones (1884-1973) 67

Karl Barth (1886-1968) 72

Sadhu Sundar Singh (1889-1929) 81

Teresa Benedicta of the Cross [Edith Stein] (1891-1942) 88

Reinhold Niebuhr (1892-1971) 95

Corrie ten Boom (1892-1983) 101

Georges Florovsky (1893-1979) 105

Alexander Men (1935-90) 112

C. S. Lewis (1898-1963) 117

Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-45) 124

Lesslie Newbigin (1909-98) 132

Mother Teresa (1910-97) 140

Thomas Merton (1915-68) 148

Billy Graham (1918-2018) 154

John Paul II (1920-2005) 159

John R. W. Stott (1921-2011) 166

Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-68) 172

Desmond Tutu (1931-) 178

Henri Nouwen (1932-96) 183

Walter Brueggemann (1933-) 188

Francis (1936-) 197

Luke Timothy Johnson (1943-) 201

N. T. Wright (1948-) 207

Sources 217