David W. Bebbington
Discipleship & Christian Education
“Because the past shapes the present, a just understanding of the past is important for any individual, society, or church. Here is wise and practical advice for those wanting to write history for others about how to do it well. Follow this guidance and avoid the pitfalls!”
Jonathan Edwards’s Vision of Reality
Theology
“Jonathan Edwards worked out a vivid personal view of the relations of God and humanity. In this rigorous engagement with Edwards's philosophical theology, John Bombaro shows that the theologian's vision was the fruit of his conversion and found a place even for reprobates in the glorification of their Creator.”
Martin Luther and the Seven Sacraments
Theology
“With characteristic robustness, Martin Luther dismissed all but two of the seven sacraments of the mediaeval church. Yet Luther valued the spiritual support that people received from the ceremonies associated with penance, confirmation, marriage, ordination, and even extreme unction. He devised ways of capturing the beneficial purpose of each rite while insisting on the absolute priority of faith as the way of salvation. In Martin Luther and the Seven Sacraments, Brian Brewer reviews Luther’s teaching in this field, compares it with the opinions of subsequent reformers, and recommends methods of reviving the legitimate purposes of the seven sacraments in Protestantism today. This book is a model of the use of historical theology as a resource for the contemporary church.”
Nonconformity's Romantic Generation
History & Biography
“The changes in Evangelical Nonconformist theology during the Victorian period, in a conservative as well as in a liberal direction, are thoroughly analyzed here by Mark Hopkins. The 'Downgrade Controversy,' in which C. H. Spurgeon challenged the liberal tendency, is illuminated as never before.”
History & Biography
“Hanserd Knollys was among the most prominent, and probably the most learned, of the early Baptist leaders. In one of the most thorough studies of a seventeenth-century Baptist that we possess, Dennis Bustin shows how the interplay of conscience and conformity worked out in his long life.”
History & Biography
“Toleration in 1689 failed to bring growth to English Dissent. Martin Sutherland's thorough study of John Howe explains that his spiritual brand of ecclesiology was in part responsible for the subsequent decay of the Dissenting interest.”
History & Biography
“Baptists in eighteenth-century England were varied - Particular (high or moderate Calvinists), General (Old Connexion and New Connexion) and even Seventh Day. Their fascinating diversity is captured in this collection of essays by experts about central aspects of their life, notably spirituality and theology, and salient features of their engagement with contemporary society, such as anti-slavery and political radicalism.”
Redeeming Our Thinking about History
Theology
“Can we think Christianly about history in its two senses of the events of the past and the written account of those events? Vern Poythress affirms that we can. He seeks guidance from the Bible about how the past should be understood by believers and about how Christian historians should undertake their vocation. He places God at the center of both.”
Reinventing English Evangelicalism, 1966-2001
History & Biography
Foreword
“The process of evangelical polarization, which has a strong bearing on the future prospects of Christianity in Britain and in other parts of the world, is illuminated in this book as never before. It includes lively commentary, carefully garnered statistics, and thorough analysis of statements of faith.”
History & Biography
“The Brethren movement, with its high view of the church and its weekly Lord's Supper, grew from the 1930s to the 1950s, contributing scholarship as well as impetus to a wider Evangelicalism. Its Exclusive branches, here identified as connectional, stood apart, but the largest grouping, the Taylor Brethren, were dragged into the public gaze by the policies of an authoritarian leadership. Many of the Open Brethren, here called independent, became absorbed into the Evangelical resurgence they had helped to create. Such is the story Roger Shuff tells - with judicious evaluation of the primary sources, a well developed sense of proportion and an eye for the unexpected.”
History & Biography
“Women were not allowed to become ministers in Australian Baptist churches until the late twentieth century, but they filled a great variety of other roles. They served within congregations, sometimes leading them, in overseas mission, especially in East Bengal, and in state and national organizations, denominational and interdenominational. On the basis of thorough research, Rebecca Hilton has carefully analyzed the ways in which they seized opportunities for expressing their Evangelical Baptist identity.”
Sermons by Jonathan Edwards on the Matthean Parables, Volume I
History & Biography
“"Any writings of Jonathan Edwards, one of the greatest and most influential of Evangelical theologians, are worthy of careful attention, but these sermons engage with the crucial question of distinguishing a true experience of grace from a hypocritical profession of conversion. They are therefore of central importance for understanding an enduring issue in Evangelical faith and practice.”
History & Biography
“Ruth, a rising Baptist minister in England before the First World War, was carried by his eloquence to the pulpit of Collins Street Baptist Church, Melbourne, where he challenged the Roman Catholic Church and championed the British Empire. Subsequently, Ruth moved to the leading Congregational church in Sydney, adopting a self-professed modernist theology. Ken Manley has written a superbly contextualized biography, providing a vivid portrait of an extraordinary man.”
History & Biography
“Charles Haddon Spurgeon was, by common consent, the greatest preacher of Victorian England. His vivid, witty sermons—published weekly—enjoyed an enormous circulation in many parts of the world. In this book, Thomas Breimaier, a tutor in the theological college Spurgeon founded, examines the content of Spurgeon's sermons in the context of the preacher's whole career, clearly establishing that the cross was their central theme and conversion their overriding aim.”
The Black Baptist Experience in Canada
History & Biography
“Black folk have played a significant part in the Baptist life of Canada. Some arrived in the Maritimes as Loyalist refugees from the new United States. More reached Ontario by the ‘Underground Railroad’ for escaped slaves in the 1850s and 1860s. A few settled in Victoria, British Columbia, by the 1870s. Their robust faith and their protracted struggles are vividly illuminated by the essays in this pioneering volume.”
The Development of Russian Evangelical Spirituality
History & Biography
“"Ivan Kargel was the most important spiritual writer in the early years of the evangelical Christians-Baptists in Russia and Ukraine. Using previously neglected primary sources, Gregory Nichols has examined the variety of influences that formed Kargel's spirituality, showing in particular the significance of Keswick holiness teaching for this greatly respected author.”
NOTE: Only includes books currently in our catalog; not necessarily a complete list.
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