Kenneth J. Stewart

"An Educated Clergy"

History & Biography

“Jack Whytock's An Educated Clergy is reminiscent of John MacLeod's classic, Scottish Theology (1943), yet comes with the substantive documentation never provided in that war-era volume. Now others can go exploring the bypaths of Scottish theology and theological training within and without the Church of Scotland across three crucial centuries. The wider global Presbyterian family stands enriched through Whytock's provision of this doorway.”

An Explorer's Guide to John Calvin

Theology

“Decades ago, I was advised to read an IVP paperback, Jean Cadier's The Man God Mastered. Cadier, a French Calvin scholar, provided a nontechnical doorway into Calvin's life, career, and writings. This approachable book launched me on a lifelong quest to understand this Reformer and the transmission of his thought down to our time. I have no doubt that Thianto's Explorer's Guide will open doors, similarly, for a new generation of readers.”

John Gerstner and the Renewal of Presbyterian and Reformed Evangelicalism in Modern America

History & Biography

“Jeff McDonald demonstrates that his subject, in company with a cohort of fellow United Presbyterians in western Pennsylvania, exercised an influence on American evangelicalism out of all proportion to their numbers.”

Justified in Christ

Theology

“Peter Martyr Vermigli and John Henry Newman appear to be odd fellow-sojourners. . . . In this book, Chris Castaldo, in addition to providing a useful introduction to both writers, points out how actual similarities (as well as notable differences) are observable in their writings about the doctrine of justification.”

Let There Be Light!

Science & Faith

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Missionary Baptism & Evangelical Unity

Theology

“If it has ever occurred to you that those practicing infant baptism have different and sometimes conflicting notions of what the sacrament means and accomplishes, then perhaps you will be ready to consider, with Cameron Fraser, that this discord exists because important fundamental questions have been neglected. Cameron ably adjudicates those questions here.”

Saving Calvinism

Theology

“Opinions will differ as to whether Calvinism indeed needs 'saving.' Yet in this book, Oliver Crisp admirably succeeds in demonstrating that the venerable house of Reformed theology contains unexplored rooms with which today's Calvinists need to become familiar. In page after page, it demonstrates lucid exposition of views that have been lost sight of, along with crystal-clear delineation of ideas needing to be distinguished. It also breathes an infectious charity.”

Seasons of Refreshing

History & Biography

“Keith Hardman's 'Seasons of Refreshing' has already been the best one-volume treatment of American religious awakenings and revivals. Now with its republication, it can resume its place as a handbook for pastors and church leaders, and a textbook for college students. Those who want to know more about this vital aspect of American Christianity will find it in 'Seasons', a judicious guide, assembled on the basis of wide reading. The updated version also brings us to our own decade.”

The Doctrines of Grace in an Unexpected Place

History & Biography

“Stevenson provides a fascinating narrative strewn with ironies. The Brethren 'fathers' charted a doctrinal course that they believed to lie somewhere between Calvinism and Arminianism, the formal study of which they eschewed. Spurning doctrinal articles, they supposed (mistakenly) that their own periodic writings could suffice to guard the form of the gospel as they preached it. They lived to see their own mildly Calvinistic teaching undermined by new emphases traceable to the 1859 Revival and the Moody campaigns. Here, in microcosm, is the story of nineteenth-century evangelical Protestantism.”

The Elusive Quest of the Spiritual Malcontent

History & Biography

“Those who wish to follow a thread through the now-obscure environs of early nineteenth century British Protestant religious dissent will find a surefooted guide in Timothy Stunt. The Elusive Quest of the Spiritual Malcontent supplies an anthology of some of the best of Stunt's writings, penned over a half-century. How fluid were the lines separating established parish church, dissenting chapels, and the rising Restorationist movements!”

Theologies of the American Revivalists

History & Biography

“Since it entered the English language in 1820, the term revivalist has come to be used generically. Like a one-size-fits-all shoe, the designation has been deemed equally applicable to every evangelistic preacher from Whitefield to Moody, from Edwards to Graham. But these awakeners were not just so many duplicates. The strength of Robert Caldwell's Theologies of the American Revivalists is that it helps us see that there were distinguishable ideas of Christian revival in circulation prior to the Great Awakening, that the Great Awakening immediately spawned competing theologies of revival, and that the early nineteenth century's Second Awakening spawned still more. This is now the go-to volume for those wanting to trace these developments and to understand their bearing on our time.”