Crawford Gribben

A Heart Aflame for God

Theology

“Matthew Bingham calls us to leave the experiential shallows of modern evangelicalism and to plunge into the deeper understanding of Christian formation that was developed by the Reformers and Puritans from their sustained reflection on the word and works of God. This is an incredibly important new book—a word in season to those who are weary.”

Apocalyptic Politics

Ethics, Culture & Social Issues

“Martyn Whittock’s new book offers an insightful, timely, and provocative account of some of the most powerful ideas shaping modern politics—and politics through the ages. Essential reading for scholars, journalists, and anyone who wants to understand end-of-the-world views.”

Communion with Christ and His People

History & Biography

“Peter Morden is one of the premier historians of the English Baptist tradition. This study proceeds with characteristic precision--and offers some startling conclusions. Communion with Christ and His People is the most important work on Spurgeon to be published in several decades.”

Edification and Beauty

History & Biography

“This careful and systematic study breaks significant new ground in the history of the English Particular Baptist churches--and, by extension, in our understanding of religious experience of early modern Protestantism.”

Heaven on Earth

History & Biography

“Moving across disciplines, and balancing nuance and precision with cultural breadth, Martin Spence's Heaven on Earth provides a rich and compelling account of evangelical millennial thinking in the crucial period in which it evolved into its modern forms.”

John Eliot’s Puritan Ministry to New England “Indians”

History & Biography

“For several centuries, historians have described the ways in which the puritans who established settlements in the New England colonies shaped the formation of what became the United States. Focusing on John Eliot and his missionary efforts, Kim’s exciting new book makes a different case—that the American experience profoundly shaped what it meant to be a puritan.”

Jonathan Edwards on the Atonement

Theology

“Jonathan Edwards may be widely regarded as America's greatest theologian, but the significance of his legacy has often been disputed, especially in terms of the extent to which he influenced the theological innovations of his successors. Brandon Crawford's new account is a careful and nuanced reconstruction of Edwards' theology of the atonement, and a significant contribution to the intellectual history of colonial religion.”

Luther’s Augustinian Theology of the Cross

Theology

“Recent work on the reformation has emphasized the extent to which the legacy of medieval Catholicism was positively, if critically, received within the emerging protestant churches. Marco Barone's important study argues that Luther drew upon Augustine's work on soteriology to construct a critique of philosophical systems that emphasized epistemological and ethical autonomy. Barone extends this critique in fresh readings of Kant and Leibniz. Barone's conclusions may be provocative, but they deserve careful consideration by scholars across disciplines with interests in the relationship between early modern theology and philosophy.”

Sermons from the Early Restoration Years (1669–1675)

Theology

“Over the last seventy years, one of the most exciting trends in historical theology and in evangelical church life has been the renewed interest in John Owen. Crossway’s landmark edition of Owen makes his work and the scholarly interpretation of it as accessible as possible to new readers. This is a project of outstanding ambition and importance.”

The Doctrines of Grace in an Unexpected Place

History & Biography

“Mark Stevenson's groundbreaking study offers a challenging and richly resourced reminder of what many Brethren, and historians of evangelicalism, have forgotten--that the movement that gave birth to dispensationalism was a movement of vigorous and emphatic Calvinists.”

The Genevan Réveil in International Perspective

History & Biography

“This groundbreaking volume describes a religious revival that spread far beyond Geneva—and which became the fulcrum for some of the most important developments in Evangelical cultures on both sides of the Atlantic. Including work from a wide range of experts, this volume balances definitive commentary with important new lines of enquiry.”

The Godly Home

Marriage, Family & Relationships

“Richard Baxter's Christian Directory was one of the most compendious books of spiritual advice to be published in the seventeenth century. Its massive size, however, has hindered its usefulness in engaging a wide, evangelical audience. In The Godly Home, Randall J. Pederson has sought to remedy this by producing a volume that, with fresh urgency, presents Baxter's wisdom on family life and worship. Pederson's sensitive editorial care is to be commended. This is a work to be read and reread. I hope it reaches a wide audience and serves to awaken Christians to the need of an enduring godly legacy.”

The Scarlet Woman and the Red Hand

History & Biography

“The link between apocalyptic rhetoric and violence is rarely more obvious than in the Troubles in Northern Ireland (1966-2007). The discontents underlying this long ethnic, political, and religious conflict were fueled--and ultimately transformed--by varieties of biblical eschatology. Describing the lethal and creative potential of apocalyptic language in evangelical communities, this book offers a groundbreaking reflection on the question of whether texts are a cause or consequence of their contexts.”

The Westminster Confession of Faith and the Cessation of Special Revelation

Theology

“Scholars in puritan studies are increasingly alert to the variety of the movement's theology and spirituality. Garnet Milne's carefully-argued conclusions will provide a major resource for the reassessment of the most critical of puritan doctrines--the sufficiency of Scripture.”