• The First Thanksgiving: What the Real Story Tells Us About Loving God and Learning from History, By Robert Tracy McKenzie
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    The First Thanksgiving

    What the Real Story Tells Us About Loving God and Learning from History

    by Robert Tracy McKenzie

    Veteran historian Robert Tracy McKenzie sets aside centuries of legend and political stylization to present the mixed blessing that was the first Thanksgiving. Like good narrative history, McKenzie's critical account of our Pilgrim ancestors confronts us with our own unresolved issues of national and spiritual identity.

  • Basic Christian: The Inside Story of John Stott, By Roger Steer
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    Basic Christian

    The Inside Story of John Stott

    by Roger Steer
    Foreword by David Neff
    Featuring John Stott

    John Stott is the leading evangelical churchman of the twentieth century. In this engaging story of this remarkable life, Roger Sheer takes readers from Stott's lifelong association with the parish church of All Souls in London to every continent on the planet. Here is the book that tells why he is, as Time magazine noted in 2005, one of the hundred most influential people in the world.

  • Jonathan Edwards and the Ministry of the Word: A Model of Faith and Thought, By Douglas A. Sweeney
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    Jonathan Edwards and the Ministry of the Word

    A Model of Faith and Thought

    by Douglas A. Sweeney

    Historian Douglas Sweeney examines the enduring life and work of Jonathan Edwards, opening us to understand how Edwards' profound and meticulous study of the Bible securely anchored his powerful preaching, lively theological passions and discerning pastoral work.

  • John Calvin: A Pilgrim's Life, By Herman J. Selderhuis
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    John Calvin: A Pilgrim's Life

    by Herman J. Selderhuis

    Professor and renowned Reformation historian Herman Selderhuis has written this book to bring Calvin near to the reader, showing him as a man who had an impressive impact on the development of the Western world, but who was first of all a believer who struggled with God and with the way God governed both the world and his own life.

  • C. S. Lewis  Francis Schaeffer: Lessons for a New Century from the Most Influential Apologists of Our Time, By Scott R. Burson and Jerry L. Walls
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    C. S. Lewis Francis Schaeffer

    Lessons for a New Century from the Most Influential Apologists of Our Time

    by Scott R. Burson and Jerry L. Walls

    Scott R. Burson and Jerry L. Walls compare and contrast the thought of Lewis and Schaeffer, point out strengths and weaknesses of their apologetics, and suggest what these two thinkers still offer us in light of postmodernism and other cultural currents that have changed the apologetic landscape.

  • The Blessing of Africa: The Bible and African Christianity, By Keith Augustus Burton
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    The Blessing of Africa

    The Bible and African Christianity

    by Keith Augustus Burton

    Keith A. Burton traces the story of biblical Africa and the place of the Bible in the land of Ham. He ends with an examination of the modern era and the achievements of African Christianity. This invigorating work places the story of the Bible and African Christianity in a wider global context and challenges readers to think differently about history and the biblical world.

  • Dictionary of Major Biblical Interpreters, Edited byDonald K. McKim
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    Dictionary of Major Biblical Interpreters

    Edited by Donald K. McKim

    Donald K. McKim edits this revised and expanded edition of IVP's Historical Handbook of Major Biblical Interpreters. With six historical essays and over 200 in-depth articles regarding the principal players in the history of Biblical interpretation, this volume will serve as an invaluable tool for any serious student of the Bible or history of exegesis.

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