History & Biography
Here are books on significant events and revivals in the history of the Church as well as Christian biographies (pastoral, missionary, puritan and reformer biographies). These books are warm theological reflections on historical events and people which challenge readers to learn from what God has accomplished through His Church in the past. Noteworthy books include The Agency that Transformed a Nation by J.C. Ryle, Amy Carmichael by Iain H. Murray, and The Life of John Calvin by W.J. Grier.
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Margaret Paton
Letters from the South Seas
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John Paton’s wife gives an enthralling and inspiring account of missionary life in the New Hebrides from the 1860s to the 1890s. 344pp.
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Vividly retold stories of Alexander Henderson, Samuel Rutherford, John Bunyan and Richard Baxter. 248pp.
Lloyd-Jones
Messenger of Grace
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Concentrates on the themes of true preaching, the place of full assurance of salvation, and Lloyd-Jones’ understanding of the church. With new material, and an audio CD of Lloyd-Jones preaching. 288pp.
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The lives of the author’s father and uncle, members of the Scottish aristocracy, who became identified for fifty years with many of the foremost evangelical enterprises of the 19th century. 728pp.
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Apart from a short period of missionary service in India, John Milne (1807–68) spent his whole ministry in Perth as a pastor and evangelist. Bonar’s account of one who lived close to Christ remains a guide to what the churches need in every age. 464pp.
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Contemporary Christians can learn much from these reminiscences of the life of ‘Rabbi’ Duncan. 256pp.
Life of John Brown
With Select Writings
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An autobiographical account of the life of John Brown of Haddington (1722–1787), with additional material from his youngest son. 208pp.
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Written shortly after his father’s death by his son and successor at Princeton, this life of Charles Hodge brings together a wealth of material from letters, diaries, journal articles, and personal reflections. Full of interest for all kinds of readers. 672pp. Illustrated.
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The heart-stirring and compelling story of a strong and complex character—a ‘Mr Valiant-for-truth’ who was also a humble Christian. A revised and enlarged edition of Murray’s original 1981 biography. 368pp.
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Takes us behind the public figure—J. H. Thornwell’s successor in Columbia, South Carolina—to the humble, prayerful Christian whose life was marked by affliction. 704pp.
Jonathan Edwards
A New Biography
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Edwards’ theology is here set in its proper context of his life. We see him in public and private, as pastor in the days of the Great Awakening, as well as in the ‘wilderness’ years in Stockbridge. 536pp. Illustrated.
John MacArthur
Servant of the Word and Flock
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A biography of the pastor for more than forty years of Grace Community Church, Los Angeles. John MacArthur has proved that true preaching of the Word of God is international, and his sermons are heard or read in more than two hundred countries around the world. 264pp. Illustrated.
John G. Paton
The Autobiography of the Pioneer Missionary to the New Hebrides (Vanuatu)
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The moving and gripping account of the life of the great pioneer missionary to the New Hebrides. 340pp.
John E. Marshall
Life and Writings
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A short biography and selected writings of a much-loved pastor. 320pp.
History of the English Calvinistic Baptists 1791-1892
From John Gill to C.H. Spurgeon
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Covering the period 1771–1892, from the death of John Gill to that of C. H. Spurgeon, gives a fascinating look at the lives and perspectives of both theological giants and lesser-known lights among the Baptists. 432pp.
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Traces the great movements of thought within the church from the apostolic fathers to the last century. 288pp.
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Iain Murray writes on specific aspects of some of the Christians he particularly admires from past years. Most space is given to little-known figures, such as Robert Kalley and William Hewitson, missionaries to Madeira, and Charles and Mary Colcock Jones of Georgia. 320pp.
Evangelicalism Divided
A Record of Crucial Change in the Years 1950 to 2000
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A penetrating review of 50 years of crucial change in evangelical attitudes and alignments, 1950–2000. 352pp.
Ernest Reisinger
A Biography
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The absorbing story of a man greatly used of God in the renaissance of the Reformed faith in the 20th century. 272pp.
Elizabeth Prentiss
More Love to Thee
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The moving story of a fascinating, gifted and godly woman, author of the popular novel Stepping Heavenward. 264pp.
Diary and Journal of David Brainerd
Preface and Reflections by Jonathan Edwards
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Brainerd’s life is a vivid, powerful testimony to the truth that God can and does use weak, sick, discouraged, lonely, struggling saints . . . to accomplish amazing things for his glory’—John Piper. 792pp.
A Day’s March Nearer Home
Autobiography of J. Graham Miller
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The autobiography of a lawyer, missionary, preacher, author and intercessor, whose great aim was to point others to Jesus Christ. A day of national mourning was appointed in Vanuatu on his death in 2008. 352pp.
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Challenges the thesis that later Calvinism departed from the doctrines of John Calvin himself. 92pp.
The Atonement Controversy
In Welsh Theological Literature and Debate, 1707 - 1841
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Details the discussion in Welsh theological literature and debate (1707–1841), seeking to understand the nature and extent of the atonement. Translated by John Aaron. 432pp.
Archibald G. Brown
Spurgeon's Successor
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A biography of Archibald G. Brown (1844-1922), who built a church to seat 3000 in the East End of London while still in his twenties, led mission work among the poor, and was Co-pastor and then Pastor of the Metropolitan Tabernacle, 1907-10. 432pp. Illustrated.
Andrew Bonar
Diary & Life
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The Diary and Life of Andrew Bonar (1810-92) gives a panoramic view of one of the most fascinating periods of Scotland’s church history.
The Agency that Transformed a Nation
Lessons from the Great Awakening of the 18th Century
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Lessons from the Great Awakening of the 18th century hold out hope for the world today. With a Foreword by Jonathan Fletcher and a Preface by Roger Carswell. 16pp. £1.00 each or 5 for £4.
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