This is a 2011 update of a 1992 book. I read this edition on Kindle. I always enjoy Bebbington on Baptist and Church history. This book explains the reasons for “chapels” in England to be “nonconformist” (or “Dissenters”) during the late nineteenth century, the “Victorian” era. Besides the obvious doctrinal reasons for independent churches to […]
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Killing Jesus
This book should be looked at from two points of view. First of all it is an interesting history of the times in which Jesus lived. I found the other “killing” books (Lincoln & Kennedy) to be interesting history as well (I’m not sure whether O’Reilly or Duggard is the historian). The book is filled […]
Our Lives, Our Fortunes & Our Sacred Hon
When I saw my father-in-law reading this book I commented that it looked interesting and so I was graciously given the book when he finished reading it. It is the story of how the American colonies became the United States and then how they separated from Great Britain and issued their Declaration of Independence. The […]
The Puritan Tradition in English Life
This is a 1956 book by this English author. Marlowe writes from an historian’s, not a theological, point of view. His treatment of the Puritans is often refreshing and straightforward but also sometimes frustrating. Marlowe seems to be positive when the Puritan history was a benefit to English life and politics and yet negative if […]
Saints and Strangers
I have owned a copy of this 1945 history book for a number of years but had not read it until this Thanksgiving season. Born in Colorado, Willison (1896-1972) specialized in American history. He even wrote the CliffsNotes for The Federalist and also for Pilgrim’s Progress. Sometimes it is hard to read a lengthy history book (this being […]
Killing Kennedy
I am reading the trilogy by O’Reilly of Killing Lincoln, which I enjoyed very much, Killing Kennedy, which I finally enjoyed at the end, and, later this year, Killing Jesus, which I am in doubt about. Kennedy was a unique American President, of which there is no doubt. He was the first Catholic president coming from a well-to-do […]
Baptists the Only Thorough Reformers
This book was originally published in 1876 by U.D. Ward and Sheldon & Company of New York. It was the first book chosen to be published by Backus Books in 1980. John Quincy Adams (1825-1881) was a Baptist pastor in New Jersey and New York. Adams especially defends the ordinance of baptism as an immersion […]
History of the Bible in English
F.F. Bruce is usually a good source especially for history of the Bible and Bible history. In this book, first published in 1961, the edition I have in 1978, you will find a good detailed history of the English Bible leading up to the King James Version, and a few after that. It is an […]
The Reformation In England
The English Reformation isn’t as popular as the German, Swiss, or even the Scottish Reformations. There you have singularly interesting figures like Luther, Calvin, and Knox. In England you have characters like Henry VIII and Bloody Mary, but you also have Cranmer, Ridley, and Latimer and others who lost their lives in the reformation process. […]
Rediscovering the Church Fathers
I first read this book several years ago on several consecutive Saturday mornings with some friends as we all attempted to learn a little more about a long passed over aspect of our church history. Reading this book again highlighted a few things that make this book worth reading. For one, knowing more about the […]