The Puritans: Their Origins and Successors (Lloyd-Jones)

Description

What did the Puritans and their successors teach? Was their teaching biblical? What can we learn from them for our life and witness today? These questions guided Dr. LLoyd-Jones in giving the addresses in this volume. Far from sharing the idea that a knowledge of the past is useless or irrelevant, he believed that the study of history is vital to the well-being of the church today.

In these addresses given at the Puritan Studies and Westminster Conferences between 1959 and 1978, Dr. LLoyd-Jones ranges widely over the history of Reformed Christianity from the Reformation to the nineteenth century, drawing lessons from major figures like Calvin and Knox, Bunyan and Owen, Edwards and Whitefield, and from lesser-known men such as Henry Jacob, John Glas and Robert Sandeman.

Written in an absorbing and stimulating style, these studies continue to speak with great insight and relevance to the church of the twenty-first century.

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Table of Contents: 

Publisher’s Introduction 

1959 - Revival: An Historical and Theological Survey 

1960 - Knowledge – False and True

1961 - Summing-Up: Knowing and Doing

1962 - Puritan Perplexities – Some Lessons From 1640-1662 

1963 - John Owen on Schism 

1964 - John Calvin and George Whitefield 

1965 - ‘Ecclesiola in Ecclesia’ 

1966 - Henry Jacob and the First Congregational Church 

1967 - ‘Sandemanianism’ 

1968 - William Williams and Welsh Calvinistic Methodism

1969 - Can We Learn From History? 

1971 - Puritanism and Its Origins 

1972 - John Knox – The Founder of Puritanism 

1973 - Howell Harris and Revival 

1974 - Living the Christian Life – New Developments in the 18th and 19th-Century Teaching

1975 - ‘The Christian and the State in Revolutionary Times': The French Revolution and After

1976 - Jonathan Edwards and the Crucial Importance of Revival

1977 - Preaching 

1978 - John Bunyan: Church Union

Author

Martyn Lloyd-Jones (1899-1981, minister of Westminster Chapel in London for 30 years, was one of the foremost preachers of his day. His many books have brought profound spiritual encouragement to millions around the world.