Harry S. Stout

A People So Favored of God, Second Edition

History & Biography

“This book represents a first class example of 'microhistory' as it examines the capital city of Boston during the eighteenth-century Great Awakening. By imaginatively exploring baptismal and membership records and fusing them with more traditional sources, George Harper has constructed a model study of confrontation and accommodation in the most divisive religious event in colonial America. In this book complex theological debates assume a compelling life of their own told in an engaging and easily comprehended fashion. This is 'must' reading for anyone engaged in the study of religioin in colonial America.”

A Short Life of Jonathan Edwards

History & Biography

“Marsden is easily the most distinguished historian of Edwards in the world today. . . With a clear and engaging writing style, he makes America's most brilliant colonial intellectual come alive as no other scholar has done.”

After Freedom

Ethics, Culture & Social Issues

“Baby Boomers, this is for you! With so many of us still on the planet, it's not surprising that we have gleaned more than a fair share of attention. We've been identified as today's leaders, consumers, investors, philanthropists; the people to court, analyze, enlist, survey, and solicit. Mary VanderGoot's astute observations and incisive conclusions make a timely contribution to understanding this generation and its effect on those who are following.”

An Infinite Fountain of Light

History & Biography

“In this brief but wonderfully written appreciation of Jonathan Edwards by prize-winning scholar George Marsden, readers encounter an Edwards meant for twenty-first-century believers. In place of emphasizing Edwards's celebrated but difficult philosophical treatises like Freedom of the Will or The Nature of True Virtue, Marsden offers an insightful overview of Edwards's classic A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections, celebrated by William James as America's first religious psychology. In Marsden's hands, readers learn to understand Edwards's signs of saving faith in terms as relevant to today as they were in the eighteenth century. In the process, they see a new meaning of the Enlightenment grounded less in 'laws' of nature than in a system of personal interrelationships governed by a caring, sovereign God.”

Edwards on the Will

Theology

“Edwards on the Will is an important contribution to the study of Jonathan Edwards's thought. Where earlier scholars have been largely preoccupied with Edwards's 'modernity' or with measuring the social effect of Edwards in the context of the American Revolution, Allen Guelzo demonstrates his intellectual 'legacy' not only to the generation of the Revolution but also beyond. This work will stand as the definitive treatment of the legacy of Edwards's classic treatise on Freedom of the Will.”

One Soul at a Time

History & Biography

“Grant Wacker is the finest Billy Graham scholar in the world today. . . . A must read for anyone interested in the amazing story of evangelical revivals in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.”

Regeneration, Revival, and Creation

History & Biography

“This volume is must read for anyone interested in the most current trends and preoccupations of Edwards scholars from around the world.”

The New England Theology

Theology

“This volume of rare sermons and documents makes an unprecedented contribution to our understanding of the 'New England Theology' as it emerged from Jonathan Edwards and continued through Edwards Amasa Park. The introduction, prepared by two seasoned Edwards scholars, represents an acute and thought-provoking analysis of the intellectual and rheological underpinnings of the New England Theology. A rich, absorbing, and always engaging collection, this volume will be of great interest to Edwards scholars and general readers alike.”

The Puritan as Yankee

History & Biography

“The Puritan as Yankee will surely stand as the definitive biography of Horace Bushnell for this generation. Based on meticulous research and rendered in engaging prose, the book succeeds in preserving Bushnell's greatness while, at the same time and in many particulars, unveiling an entirely new and, to this reader, persuasive portrait of this nineteenth-century pastor-theologian. In Robert Bruce Mullin's fresh study readers will encounter a surprising Bushnell, one who is more great preacher than great theologian and one who is as conservative — and even proto-Pentecostalist — as he is liberal. This volume will rank among the very best in what is unarguably the strongest religious biography series on the market.”

The State of the Evangelical Mind

“Ever since the publication of Mark Noll's seminal The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind, which appeared with much fanfare in 1994, evangelical scholars in churches, seminaries, colleges and universities, and parachurch organizations have struggled to assess the gains and losses of evangelical thought over the past generation. As these essays make clear, progress has been uneven. On one hand, the level of scholarship by evangelicals and evangelical institutions has evolved to a high level of sophistication that is recognized by insiders and outsiders alike. On the other, even as evangelical scholarship has grown, the association of evangelicalism with the more tawdry elements of the 'religious right' has delegitimized the movement among serious intellectuals both within and without the evangelical community. Both the gains and the losses appear in the judiciously rendered thought pieces in The State of the Evangelical Mind. The essays are uniformly astute, well written, and, in short, ruthlessly truthful. The result is a stunning achievement. In unflinchingly facing the shortcomings and hypocrisies of contemporary evangelicalism as well as its notable strengths, the volume points a way forward from the scandal of the evangelical mind to its honor.”

The Thought of Jonathan Edwards

Theology

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William Wilberforce

History & Biography

“In this thoroughly researched and sensitively written biography of William Wilberforce, Stephen Tomkins lays bare both the man and the institution he devoted his life to abolish. Drawing extensively on eyewitness testimonies, Tomkins confronts readers with the brutality of the slave trade as he depicts Wilberforce's extraordinary, religiously grounded efforts to eradicate it. The book takes into account current cultural concerns without succumbing to anachronistic revisionism. A must-read in this 200th anniversary year of British abolition.”

Worldly Saints

History & Biography

“Ryken's 'Worldly Saints' offers a fine introduction to seventeenth-century Puritanism in its English and American contexts. The work is rich in quotations from Puritan worthies and is ideally suited to general readers who have not delved widely into Puritan literature. It will also be a source of information and inspiration to those who seek a clearer understanding of the Puritan roots of American Christianity.”