Biography/History

While Christians have always privileged the Bible as our ultimate authority in matters of faith and practice, we also recognize that the Christian life is an intergenerational and communal activity. This collection of ten short biographies will introduce...

The conversion of a Roman Catholic priest. Would he obey his church or his Bible? Here is the heart-wrenching struggle of a man torn between his religion and Christ, between men's traditions and God's Word. As a child, Charles Chiniquy memorized...

by Edward E. Ham Paperback, 312 pages 2005 reprint, by Larry Harrison When evangelist Ham preached, mockers were converted, families were restored, bars were closed, laws were changed, churches filled to overflowing (one even advertised in the paper that...

This book traces the history of Baptists from the first century up through 1972. Chapters include: the period of establishment, the period of apostasy, the period of obscurity, and the period of toleration. The author also gives some history and...

The title of this book well describes its contents, ‘A History Of American Revivals, With Their Philosophy And Methods.’ Written in 1877 it covers revivals that occurred in the ministries of George Whitefield, the Tennants, James McGready in...

Biographical Essays on Notable Particular-Regular Baptists in America Edited by Terry Wolever Volume One Volume One of this companion set to the British Particular Baptists is now available, and like that ground-breaking work, seeks for the first time to...

Volume Two of this series continues to bring back to remembrance the lives of still more early Baptist worthies, again arranged in chronological order by their dates of birth. Learn more about these sturdy Baptist pioneers in America, and you’ll...

This third volume in our series covers some of the more pivotal events in the American Baptist experience during the mid to late eighteenth century????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

This fourth volume in our continuing series on what had been before the twentieth century the mainstream group of Baptists in America, the Particular/Regular Baptists, centers on those figures born during the early years of the Great awakening period. It...

The twenty figures covered in this fifth volume knew much of what the English Puritan George Swinnock referred to as a God-given “heaven in the heart,” or godly experience. It was their prime motivation to live out their days in consecration...

Volume 6 has essays on twenty men and women, all of whom lived between the mid-eighteenth century and the opening decades of the nineteenth century. Once again there will be some familiar names Isaac Case, Stephen Gano, Daniel Merrill, Elisha Andrews,...

Volume 7 has essays on 24 men and women, all of whom lived between the mid-eighteenth century and the opening decades of the nineteenth century.There are essays on Jesse Mercer, Marmaduke Earle, Andrew Broaddus, William Staughton, Asahel Morse, William...