About This Issue: October 09, 1964

In a moving essay on the dire need of the churches, a Methodist minister contends that the renewal of institutionalized Christianity depends upon divine resources and bold commitment, including a new role for the laity. A panel of prominent Christian scholars discusses what factor, more than any other, is likely to decide Christianity’s influence on secular thought.

CHRISTIANITY TODAY’S analysis of the theological situation in Europe continues with an essay on the deterioriation of Barthian defenses.

Also in this issue

The CT archives are a rich treasure of biblical wisdom and insight from our past. Some things we would say differently today, and some stances we've changed. But overall, we're amazed at how relevant so much of this content is. We trust that you'll find it a helpful resource.

Christianity Today October 9, 1964

Revelation in History

Dare We Hope for Renewal of the Church?

T. Leo Brannon

The Revival of the Conservative Spirit in America

John C. Cooper

Pros and Cons of Baptism: The Case for Infant Baptism

Geoffrey W. Bromiley

The Case against Infant Baptism

G. R. Beasley-Murray

Chaos in European Theology: The Deterioration of Barth’s Defenses

The Editor

Eutychus and His Kin: October 9, 1964

Eutychus Ii

Victory over Satan

L. Nelson Bell

Editorial

Moral Relativism and Public Guilt

Let’s Get Back to the Center

The Minister’s Workshop: The Way to Note-Free Preaching

Book Briefs: October 9, 1964

God’s Best for You

Charles W. Koller

The Next Ten Years

Mass Evangelism: Billy Graham: Back to Boston

Harold Lindsell

British Church Merger by 1980?

J. D. Douglas

Comeback of Urban Churches

Current Religious Thought: October 9, 1964

Harold B. Kuhn

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Being Human

Anxiety, the Nervous System, and Your Window of Tolerance: A Conversation with Lisa Cuss & Clarissa Moll

How your nervous system helps you notice God

Christ and the Adulteress by Peter Bruegel

Blaming Women Harms Us All

Dorothy Littell Greco

When we fail to protect and honor women like Jesus, we all lose.

A heart with lots of cracks in it.

Synthetic Love Will Tear Us Apart

When we outsource intimacy to machines, we become what we practice. And we’re practicing the wrong things.

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The Russell Moore Show

N.T. Wright on ‘The Vision of Ephesians’

The professor is in—and he’s talking about Ephesians.

Our Prayers Don’t Disappear into Thin Air

Bohye Kim

Why Scripture talks of our entreaties to God as rising like incense.

An image of an astronaut.

From Outer Space to Rome

Daniel Silliman

In 1962, CT engaged friends and enemies in the Cold War and the Second Vatican Council.

Several Christmas album covers.

May Cause a Spontaneous Outburst of Festive Joy

Kelsey Kramer McGinnis

8 new Christmas albums for holiday parties, praise, and playlists.

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Meet CT’s New President

The Bulletin with Nicole Martin and Walter Kim

Nicole Martin seeks to mend evangelical divides and uphold biblical truth.