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Christianity -- 20th century

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• The Reconstruction of the Church: A Symposium (Tyler, TX: Geneva Ministries, 1985), ed. by James B. Jordan (PDF with commentary at garynorth.com)
• Backward, Christian Soldiers? An Action Manual for Christian Reconstruction (Tyler, TX: Institute for Christian Economics, c1984), by Gary North (PDF with commentary at garynorth.com)
• The Screwtape Letters (c1942), by C. S. Lewis (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• The Cross and the Crisis (Milwaukee: Bruce Pub. Co., c1938), by Fulton J. Sheen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Greatest Drama Ever Staged (published with "The Triumph of Easter"; c1938), by Dorothy L. Sayers (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• Handbook for Christian Believers: Faith Explained for Today's Needs (Indianapolis and New York: Bobbs-Merrill Co., c1953), by Aaron J. Ungersma (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Christ that Is to Be (New York and London: Macmillan, 1907), by L. Dougall
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Fundamental Questions (New York: Macmillan, 1917), by Henry Churchill King (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Problem of Christianity: Lectures Delivered at the Lowell Institute in Boston, and at Manchester College, Oxford, by Josiah Royce (2 volumes; New York: Macmillan, 1913), by Josiah Royce (page images at HathiTrust)
• Religion and Experience (Cincinnati: Jennings and Graham; New York: Eaton and Mains, 1906), by J. Brierley (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Faith of the Millions, Second Series: A Selection of Past Essays, by George Tyrrell (Gutenberg text)
• The Parable of Telstar, and Other Talks, by W. Carl Ketcherside (Javascript-dependent HTML at unity-in-diversity.org)
• The Return of Christendom (London: Allen and Unwin, c1922), contrib. by Charles Gore, Maurice B. Reckitt, Henry H. Schloesser, Lionel Spencer Thornton, P. E. T. Widdrington, A. J. Carlyle, Arthur J. Penty, Niles Carpenter, Paul B. Bull, and G. K. Chesterton (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Biblical Counsel: Resources for Renewal (expanded web edition), ed. by Steven C. Kettler (HTML at lettermen2.com)

• Biblical Ethics, by Greg L. Bahnsen (partial serial archives)

• German Catholics and Hitler's Wars: A Study in Social Control (New York: Sheed and Ward, c1962), by Gordon C. Zahn (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Crooked Cross (1940), by A. S. Duncan-Jones (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• Nazi and Nazarene (1940), by Ronald Arbuthnott Knox (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• Christ Versus Hitler (New York: The Lutheran Press, c1937), by William Kraft (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Crooked Cross (1940), by A. S. Duncan-Jones (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)

• Let Us Protestants Awake! (third edition; Madison, WI: American Council of Christian Laymen, 1950), by R. H. Markham (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Korea Pentecost, and Other Experiences on the Mission Field (New York: Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A., ca. 1910), by William Newton Blair (page images at HathiTrust)

• Ambivalent Alliance: The Catholic Church and the Action Française, 1899-1939 (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, c1985), by Oscar L. Arnal (page images at Pitt)

• Love Letters (c2007), by Eberhard Arnold and Emmy Arnold (PDF at plough.com)

• Visionaries: The Spanish Republic and the Reign of Christ (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1996), by William A. Christian (HTML at UC Press)

• Visionaries: The Spanish Republic and the Reign of Christ (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1996), by William A. Christian (HTML at UC Press)

• Lost for Words? Brazilian Liberationism in the 1990s (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2002), by Goetz Frank Ottmann (searchable page images at Pitt)

• Tracking the White Salamander: The Story of Mark Hofmann, Murder, and Forged Mormon Documents, by Jerald Tanner (HTML with commentary at utlm.org)

• Televangelism: Power and Politics on God's Frontier (based on the 1988 edition), by Jeffrey K. Hadden and Anson Shupe (HTML at Virginia)
• Please Don't Wish Me a Merry Christmas: A Critical History of the Separation of Church and State (New York and London: New York University Press, c1997), by Stephen M. Feldman (HTML with commentary at NYU Press)
• The Betrayal of the Church: Apostasy and Renewal in the Mainline Denominations (1986), by Edmund W. Robb and Julia Robb (HTML at cmpage.org)

• Faith in the City: Preaching Radical Social Change in Detroit (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2007), by Angela D. Dillard (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Betrayal of the Church: Apostasy and Renewal in the Mainline Denominations (1986), by Edmund W. Robb and Julia Robb (HTML at cmpage.org)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Selfish Young Man: An Honest Look at Christ and Christianity, Plus Other Selected Essays (2004), by David Allan (multiple formats at archive.org)
• My Quest for Reality (Wellesley, MA: The author, 1952), by Vida Dutton Scudder (page images at HathiTrust)
• Passing on the Faith: Transforming Traditions for the Next Generation of Jews, Christians, and Muslims (New York: Fordham University Press, 2006), ed. by James Heft (PDF with commentary at bepress.com)
• The Common Life (London: J. Clarke and Co., 1904), by J. Brierley (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Discussions and Arguments on Various Subjects (London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1907), by John Henry Newman (HTML at newmanreader.org)
• Earlham Lectures: 1. A Compend of Christian Doctrine; 2. The Ritualistic Law and its Antitype in Christ; 3. History of Christianity to Constantine (Richmond, IN: Nicholson and Bro., 1885), by Barnabas C. Hobbs (illustrated HTML and page images at Indiana)
• The Heart of Christianity (2 volumes; Philadelphia and Brantford: Bradley-Garretson Co., 1907), by T. S. Linscott
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
• Immanuel or Christian Realism: A Verbatim Report of the Ridell Lectures on "Science and Religion", "From Nature to Nature's God", "Brain Building and Soul Growth", "From Adam to Christ", "God, Faith, and Prayer", "The World's Redemption", and "The Higher Life" (Chicago: Child of Light Pub. Co., c1906), by N. N. Riddell (page images at HathiTrust)
• In His Image, by William Jennings Bryan (Gutenberg text)
• Iola: or, Facing the Truth (Raleigh: Press of Edwards, Broughton and Co., 1886), by J. Pressley Barrett (HTML and page images at ecu.edu)
• New Star Papers: or, Views and Experiences of Religious Subjects, by Henry Ward Beecher (page images at MOA)
• A Practical View of the Prevailing Religious System of Professed Christians, in the Higher and Middle Classes in This Country, Contrasted with Real Christianity (Dublin: Printed by R. Draper for B. Dugdale, 1797), by William Wilberforce (Gutenberg text and page images)
• A Practical View of the Prevailing Religious System of Professed Christians, in the Higher and Middle Classes in This Country, Contrasted with Real Christianity (6th edition, corrected; London: Printed by T. Cadell, Jr., and W. Davies, 1798), by William Wilberforce
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Warriors, by Anna Robertson Brown Lindsay (Gutenberg text)
• Abrahamic Faiths, Ethnicity and Ethnic Conflicts (1997), ed. by Paul Peachey, George F. McLean, and John Kromkowski (PDF at crvp.org)
• Lies! (New York: G. H. Doran Co., ca. 1921), by Geoffrey Anketell Studdert Kennedy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essays, Critical and Historical (London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1907), by John Henry Newman
  • volume I: HTML at newmanreader.org
  • volume II: HTML at newmanreader.org
• Faith, and The Faith (Louisville: Baptist Book Concern, c1906), by T. T. Eaton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Jesus and the Intellectual, by Bill Bright
  • HTML at cru.org
  • PDF at cru.org
• The Religion of Experience: An Examination of Some of the Difficulties of Christian Faith (London: Headley Bros., ca. 1918), by Edward Grubb
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Mystical Chorus: Jung and the Religious Dimension, by Donald Broadribb, contrib. by Marilyn Holly and Norma Lyons (PDF at Wayback Machine)
• The New Evangelism and Other Papers, by Henry Drummond (multiple formats at CCEL)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.