Stuart Piggin

Anglican Evangelicalism in Sydney 1897 to 1953

History & Biography

“This is a valuable specimen, rare in Australia, of the genre of historical theology. It is the fruit of the careful research of a conscientious and proficient theologian. The views of three influential principals of Sydney’s Anglican theological college are here inspected with ‘a theological eye’. Since theology is Moore College’s chief claim to fame, that is the best eye to view it. Yet John McIntosh is the first to make a comprehensive analysis of it or trace the influences on it or of it. He does not assume in advance that he knows what the views of his subjects must have been on the grounds that they were all committed Evangelicals. . . . In these days of the lazy tolerance of subjectivity, McIntosh’s approach is as refreshing as it is rigorous.”

Being Christian after Christendom

Foreword

(wrote the foreword)

Global Revival

History & Biography

“This is the story of one of the most significant revivals known to history. In it was sown the seeds of the more famous Welsh Revival of 1904/5 and of other revivals in four continents in the first decade of the twentieth century. This revival was in a fifth continent: Australia. Not only does it deserve to be better known, but the fullest contemporary records of it exist, and this well-researched account is based on their solid foundation. Here we are told, with clarity and comprehensiveness, its background, how it was organized and supported in prayer, who led it and spoke at it, the character and gifts of its preachers, what they said (an appendix contains five of the addresses delivered during the revival), how its message was received, the impact it made on Australian society and the church, and how it ignited revival fires in other nations throughout the world. By focusing on this one revival, Robert Nyhuis has done a great service for all who long for revival, all who wonder how Jesus, ‘the desire of the nations’ could satisfy the heart hunger of the Australian nation today, and how the Australian church could again be a blessing to the other continents of the earth. Are the knowledge of past revivals and the expectation that the Lord will do it again in the future rising in Australia? This authoritative analysis is well calculated to raise that exciting prospect even higher.”

Leave Love with Me

Foreword

(wrote the foreword)

Out Here Down Under

History & Biography

“The sublime scholarship of E. A. Judge, Australia’s foremost historian of the ancient northern world, is here brought to bear on the modern southern world. Australian society and culture are so lasered in in this collection that fresh perspectives arise in plain sight from the sources in startling contrast to the ideologies which mire us in convention. The Judge way to historical truth is the way to freedom and a better way, especially for the university and public life.”

Phenomenal Sydney

History & Biography

“Sydney Anglicans are a family who love the Bible and who love to argue. Here are the arguments, from all sides; they are robust, surprising, refreshing. They make this account at once absorbingly entertaining, unrelentingly serious, and critically important to any concerned about the future of the church. . . . I disagreed time and again, and for that reason, I suspect it must be right.”

Ruth

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“Most Bible commentaries are so cluttered with technicalities and problems that they leave us with hot heads and cool hearts. Ruth has the reverse affect. It reveals the hidden God and how his loving-kindness is made manifest in a world of need, through respect for and practical care of the poor, foreigners, women, and children. Here a biblical story of consummate artistry receives profound treatment from one who is himself an exceptional storyteller and wordsmith.”

Sermons by Jonathan Edwards on the Matthean Parables, Volume I

History & Biography

“This is that rare book--for the beginner, the scholar, and the saint: a never-before-published sermon series by the master preacher at the height of his powers edited and introduced by the most knowledgeable of Edwards's scholars. The beginner here gets the necessary help to start with the text; the scholar will be delighted to fill in more of the crucial years between the Northampton revival and the Great Awakening; the saint will rejoice at the piercing thought and burning passion.”

Sermons by Jonathan Edwards on the Matthean Parables, Volume II

History & Biography

“In the entire history of the church there have been few greater preachers than George Whitefield and Jonathan Edwards. Here we meet both of them in conversation with each other at the height of the Great Awakening . . . Students of the Great Awakening will treasure this documentation of one of the great moments of American history. For students of homiletics, this could become an indispensible source on the art of great preaching.”

T. E. Ruth (1875–1956)

History & Biography

“Ken Manley has done it again. This time the subject of his meticulous scholarship . . . is a biography of T. E. Ruth, revered and reviled Protestant preacher, anti-Catholic ecumenist, platform agitator, progressive and (very) liberal evangelical, independent thinker, Empire loyalist, discomforting controversialist, stylish dogmatist. . . . Based on the study of Ruth’s sermons and his more than eight hundred contributions to the press, Manley’s analysis is a major resource for the development of that much-needed public theology.”

The Multicultural Challenge to Sydney Anglican Identity

History & Biography

Foreword

“The conclusions of this work are of paramount importance for contemporary research on multiculturalism. The narrative chronicles the nation’s arduous journey toward social equilibrium, intertwined with the gradual acceptance of the value of multiculturalism by a significant religious denomination, the Anglican Church of Australia, Diocese of Sydney.”

The Thought of Jonathan Edwards

Theology

“‘What room for improvement of reason is there,’ enthused Jonathan Edwards, ‘for angels and glorified minds!’ Veto clearly shares the same delight in this accomplished study of Edwards’s metaphysics. Edwards’s congruity with the great theologians from Augustine to Barth and with philosophers from Plato to Hegel, and his innovative departures from them, are securely mapped, testimony to Veto’s astonishing scholarly range. Here is more than an analysis of Edwards’s thought. The perception that knowing, beauty, and excellency are essentially moral categories, that the will is what one loves most, that reality is God as he is in himself, and that virtue is the only true spirituality are transformative foundations for pastoral practice. Edwards’s insistence that to be ‘awakened’ is not ‘regeneration’ is here closely investigated, an example of Veto’s impressive intention to present us, not with the Edwards we want, but with Edwards as he was.”