Books on History and Biography
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Revival And Revivalism
The Making and Marring of American Evangelicalism 1750 - 1858
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Subtitled ‘The Making and Marring of American Evangelicalism 1750–1858’, this book traces the spiritually epoch-making events of the 18th and 19th centuries and rejects the frequent identification of ‘revival’ with ‘revivalism’. 480pp.
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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Challenges the thesis that later Calvinism departed from the doctrines of John Calvin himself. 92pp.
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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.
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.
Richard Hobson of Liverpool
The Autobiography of a Faithful Pastor
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The autobiography of a faithful pastor, who served his church in a working-class district of Liverpool for 33 years, and under whose ministry the ‘sixteen acres of sin’ were transformed. 384pp.
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A much-loved classic which contains Bonar’s life of M‘Cheyne and a wide selection of his sermons, letters and other writings. 664pp.
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Traces the great movements of thought within the church from the apostolic fathers to the last century. 288pp.
Ignatius of Antioch
The Man Who Faced Lions
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The story of ‘the man who faced lions’. 40pp.
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.
Southern Presbyterian Leaders
1683 - 1911
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A fascinating series of sketches of leaders in the Southern Presbyterian Church between colonial times and 1911 when White wrote. 512pp.
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From his deep Christian experience, Boston gave the church one of its most enduring spiritual autobiographies. 576pp.
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