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Puritan Profiles

54 Contemporaries of the Westminster Assembly

William Barker

£15.99

Biographical profiles of 54 members of the conference that produced the well-known Westminster Confession of Faith. Individuals dealt with include Samuel Rutherford, Thomas Goodwin, Thomas Watson, John Owen, John Bunyan and many more.
?C.S. Lewis once accused our age of ?chronological snobbery? for failing to learn from or value the past, but no one will want to remain snobbish after reading Dr Barker?s splendid vignettes? read them and come away a stronger person.?
James Montgomery Boice
?These well-researched biographies add immeasurably to our historical appreciation of the Westminster Assembly? David Clyde Jones, Covenant Theological Seminary, St. Louis, Missouri

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Word to the World

William Barker

£11.99

The church is suffering from crises in identity, belief and government involvement and they are all connected. The reason the church has problems interacting with government is because it doesn’t understand its mission, history and authority. Barker, an internationally respected Professor of Church History, shows what the church should look for in creating proper relationships with governments, other faiths, the rest of society, divisions inside the church and the role of the Bible in defining the church’s faith.

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John Calvin

His Life And Influence

Robert L. Reymond

"...tells the story of Calvin's life and thought in a compact and compelling way that will serve to acquaint readers with the warm human character of Calvin... His description of Calvin's masterful statement at the Lausanne Disputation of 1536 is by itself worth the price of the book."

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Samuel Rutherford

A New biography of the Man and his ministry

Kingsley Rendell

"His 'Lex, Rex' was publicly burned by the order of the civil authority and is seen by some as a root of our modern political theories but Rutherford is a complex figure.' Kingsley Rendell's study provides the welcome service of putting this important and interesting figure in the context of his times and of the church controversies in which he was involved."

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Toward a Sure Faith

J. Gresham Machen and The Dilemma of Biblical Criticism

Terry Chrisope

"In the last decade J. Gresham Machen has attracted the attention, and gained the appreciation, of even some Roman Catholic and main-line Protestant writers. Terry Chrisope's excellent study of Machen as a New Testament scholar adds another dimension to the understanding of this conservative theologian of the early 20th century who yet speaks into the post-modern culture of the 21st century. Machen upheld principles that still serve well the Christian faith more than two generations after his death in 1937."

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