Dan Lucarini’s Reading List Editor’s Note: My friendship with Dan Lucarini began after I read his book and arranged to have lunch with him in Denver. Not only did I discover that we had much in common in our views of church music, I was immediately taken by Dan’s humility with what God has done […]
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Worship of the Puritans
Dan Lucarini’s Reading List Editor’s Note: My friendship with Dan Lucarini began after I read his book and arranged to have lunch with him in Denver. Not only did I discover that we had much in common in our views of church music, I was immediately taken by Dan’s humility with what God has done […]
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
*Two texts were used: an unabridged (six volumes) where detail was desired and an abridged text by D. M. Low for context reading. The parallels found in the early history of the ancient republic of the Roman Empire to that of the United States today are remarkable. Author Gibbon spent the majority of his life […]
The World of the Talmud
I read this book in preparation for a class on the four hundred silent years between the Old and New Testaments. Adler, speaking from a Rabbi’s viewpoint, explains how the Orthodox Jews see the “scripture” as opposed to the “oral traditions” which were eventually put in written form. It is interesting to learn how the […]
The Four Hundred Silent Years
I bought this 1914 volume (Loizeaux Brothers) in a used bookstore some time ago and had put it aside. Since I was asked to teach a module on The Silent Years, I pulled out this old book and read it. What a blessing! Ironside pulls together a cohesive progression of events and people that takes […]
Historical Drift
I was given this book by a friend and still enjoyed reading it! Cook (former missionary and now VP for CMA in Canada) gives another emphasis to the old observation that most things die after three generations or cycles. This is true of corporations, visits from relatives and is too often true in church life. […]
Foxe’s Book of Martyrs (abridged)
Every Christian ought to have this classic in his/her library. This abridged version (95 pages) is only a synopsis of the original work (371 pages) and should be used only as a “brush up” to remind you of these events. These are the accounts of the early church persecutions, the Inquisition, and the days of […]
Renaissance and Reformation
While browsing a used book store, I came across this 1986 book by Estep, an author of Baptist History, whom I have enjoyed. This book covers only those time periods within the title but includes many descriptions of Baptist history as well. This book was of particular interest to me because of the present struggle […]
Church History in Plain Language
This is a 1995 edition of the 500 page book (Word Pub) by Shelley, professor of church history at Denver Seminary. Once I got over the initial change of reading history written in a more relaxed style, I enjoyed and learned a lot from the book. There were times when I would have wanted the […]
This Day in Baptist History
This is a daily journal of 365 readings drawn from Baptist history. Each entry is about a page long, interesting and documented. The book can be ordered by calling BJU Press in Greenville, S.C. Dr. Harju gave me this book a year ago and I have spent five minutes each evening reading each day’s entry […]