Church History 18th to 20th Century
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Natural Theology: (Oxford World's Classics)
by William Paley  Publisher Comments In Natural Theology William Paley set out to prove the existence of God from the evidence of the beauty and order of the natural world. Famously beginning by comparing the world to a watch, whose design is self-evident, he goes on to provide examples...
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Foundations of Faith #03: A Plain Account of Christian Perfection
by John Wesley Synopsis In the past few hundred years, some great Christian thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries have penned works of literature that continue to influence Christians today. Rediscover the cornerstone of the Christian faith with this classic work from...
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Methodism: Empire of the Spirit
by David Hempton Publisher Comments This lively history of the rise of Methodism charts the development of the movement from its unpromising origins in England in the 1730s to its major international importance by the 1880s. The book explores Methodism's phenomenal growth in the British...
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Amazing Grace: William Wilberforce and the Heroic Campaign to End Slavery
by Eric Metaxas Publisher Comments A companion to the Walden Media film traces the life story of England's foremost abolitionist, from the religious conversion in 1784 that led to his life of activism, to his twenty-year fight to abolish the British slave trade, to his successful role in...
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The Pietists: Selected Writings (HarperCollins Spiritual Classics)
by Emilie Griffin Publisher Comments This HarperCollins Spiritual Classic collects the significant writings of the Pietists, whose influence continues to shape Christianity today. "Perfection is nothing other than faith in the Lord Jesus and is not in us or ours but in Christ or of Christ...
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The Enlightenment Bible: Translation, Scholarship, Culture
by Jonathan Sheehan Publisher Comments How did the Bible survive the Enlightenment? In this book, Jonathan Sheehan shows how Protestant translators and scholars in the eighteenth century transformed the Bible from a book justified by theology to one justified by culture. In doing so, the...
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Pulling the Devil's Kingdom Down: The Salvation Army in Victorian Britain
by Pamela J Walker Publisher Comments Those people in uniforms who ring bells and raise money for the poor during the holiday season belong to a religious movement that in 1865 combined early feminism, street preaching, holiness theology, and intentionally outrageous singing into what soon...
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William Wilberforce: A Biography
by Stephen Tomkins Publisher Comments In the 1780s, around 40,000 slaves a year were taken from Africa in British ships, on the notorious Middle Passage, to the Caribbean. In 1787, under an oak tree in Kent, the British Prime Minister, William Pitt, invited his friend William Wilberforce to...
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The Divine Dramatist: George Whitefield and the Rise of Modern Evangelicalism (Library of Religious Biography)
by Harry S Stout Publisher Comments Commonly acknowledged as Anglo-America's most popular eighteenth-century preacher, George Whitefield commanded mass audiences across two continents through his personal charisma. Harry Stout draws on a number of sources, including the newspapers of...
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The Roots of Endurance: Invincible Perseverance in the Lives of John Newton, Charles Simeon, and William Wilberforce (Swans Are Not Silent)
by John Piper Publisher Comments John Newton, Charles Simeon, and William Wilberforce suffered lifelong opposition and endured for the causes of gospel truth, missionary zeal, and political justice. They found, in solid doctrine and humble joy, the tough roots for habitual tenderness in...
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John and Charles Wesley: Selected Prayers, Hymns, and Sermons
by Wesley Publisher Comments John and Charles Wesley led the Methodist revival that swept eighteenth–century England and America and changed the face of Christianity forever. Their spirituality synthesized a unique blend of elements from the church fathers, Catholic mystics...
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Religious Orthodoxy and Popular Faith in European Society
by Ellen Badone Synopsis By examining the ongoing tension between popular and official religion in Europe, this collection of essays contributes significantly to the continuing effort to understand the religious experience of ordinary people. Ranging from the Mediterranean to...
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The Rise of Evangelicalism
by Mark A. Noll Synopsis This inaugural book, in a series that charts the course of English-speaking evangelicalism over the last 300 years, offers a multinational narrative of the origin, development and rapid diffusion of evangelical movements in their first two generations...
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Revitalization: Explorations in World Christian Movements #20: To Be Silent... Would Be Criminal: The Antislavery Influence and Writings of Anthony Benezet
by Irv A Brendlinger Book News Annotation In tracing the life of Anthony Benezet, an 18th-century opponent to slavery and the African slave trade, Brendlinger (church history and theology, George Fox U.) follows the evolution of antislavery activity in America. In addition to Benezet's...
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Methodism: Empire of the Spirit
by David Hempton Publisher Comments The emergence of Methodism was arguably the most significant transformation of Protestant Christianity since the Reformation. This book explores the rise of Methodism from its unpromising origins as a religious society within the Church of England in the...
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Streams of Grace
by Abbi H De Tourville Synopsis The Letters of Abbe de Tourville, one of the greatest spiritual figures of the nineteenth century, have long been know for their sense of holiness and common sense. Useful for every Christian, this selection provides guidance and a warm response to our...
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Social Justice Through the Eyes of Wesley: John Wesley's Theological Challenge to Slavery
by Irv A Brendlinger Synopsis Until the late 18th century, evangelical leaders often used the Bible to justify slavery. A notable exception emerged: John Wesley. Dr. Brendlinger has brought to light the strength of Wesley's convictions about slavery and demonstrates how his theology...
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Alexander the Corrector: The Tormented Genius Whose Cruden's Concordance Unwrote Thebible
by Julia Keay Synopsis "Cruden's Concordance to the Bible" is four times the length of the Bible itself, and in nearly 300 years it has never been superseded. Yet Alexander Cruden is remembered today not so much for his mighty work as for the widespread belief that he was mad....
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Between Resistance and Martyrdom: Jehovah's Witnesses in the Third Reich
by Detlef Garbe Publisher Comments Between Resistance and Martyrdom is the first comprehensive historical study of the persecution of Jehovah’s Witnesses during the Holocaust era. Refusing to perform military service under Germany’s Third Reich due to their fundamental belief...
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Finding God in the Story of Amazing Grace
by Jim Ware Publisher Comments Analyzes the meaning of grace while profiling eighteenth-century figures William Wilberforce, a British abolitionist, and John Newton, a slave trader and hymn composer....
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