Certainly one of the earliest of our Christian founders was William Bradford, who from 1621 until his death in 1656, was Governor of the Plymouth Plantation settlement in Massachusetts. His early life in England was marked by the death of his parents, so William lived with relatives and soon began attending a Separatist church near […]
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That Old-Time Religion in Modern America
Hart is professor of church history and dean at Westminster Theological Seminary. He has written also in the area of Reformed worship (With Reverence and Awe, D.G. Hart & J.R. Muether) and American church history (see last month’s Book Shelf). Hart’s purpose in this book (2002) is to examine the influence evangelicalism has had on […]
Heritage of Evidence in the British Muse...
Thanks to our missionary Russ Ivison for bringing this book to my attention. Peter Masters has put together a book-guided tour of those parts of the British Museum that substantiate Biblical history. The book contains pictures of various artifacts as well as diagrams of the lay-out of the museum’s halls. Copies can be bought online […]
The Templars
This is a trial read of a Barnes & Noble book by an English author and authority on Catholic history. Read traces the history of the Knights Templar, the medieval protectors of the Jerusalem temple during the times of the Crusades. My interest in the Knights Templar is due to the fanciful re-creation of history […]
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 […]
The Historical Supremacy of Christianity
Christianity claims to be both exclusive and inclusive. It is exclusive in that it claims to be the only way to God, and it is inclusive in that it claims it is the only way to God for every individual in the world. Diogenes Allen wrote, “We cannot relinquish the claim that Christ is the […]
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 […]
Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners
This autobiographical sketch of Bunyan’s conversion and call to the ministry reads as if he were a character in his own Pilgrim’s Progress. His intense struggle to come to salvation is mostly foreign to us in a day of easy believism. But no convert to Christ could not identify with the relief and joy that […]