Reformed Churchmen

We are Confessional Calvinists and a Prayer Book Church-people. In 2012, we remembered the 350th anniversary of the 1662 Book of Common Prayer; also, we remembered the 450th anniversary of John Jewel's sober, scholarly, and Reformed "An Apology of the Church of England." In 2013, we remembered the publication of the "Heidelberg Catechism" and the influence of Reformed theologians in England, including Heinrich Bullinger's Decades. For 2014: Tyndale's NT translation. For 2015, John Roger, Rowland Taylor and Bishop John Hooper's martyrdom, burned at the stakes. Books of the month. December 2014: Alan Jacob's "Book of Common Prayer" at: http://www.amazon.com/Book-Common-Prayer-Biography-Religious/dp/0691154813/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1417814005&sr=8-1&keywords=jacobs+book+of+common+prayer. January 2015: A.F. Pollard's "Thomas Cranmer and the English Reformation: 1489-1556" at: http://www.amazon.com/Thomas-Cranmer-English-Reformation-1489-1556/dp/1592448658/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1420055574&sr=8-1&keywords=A.F.+Pollard+Cranmer. February 2015: Jaspar Ridley's "Thomas Cranmer" at: http://www.amazon.com/Thomas-Cranmer-Jasper-Ridley/dp/0198212879/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1422892154&sr=8-1&keywords=jasper+ridley+cranmer&pebp=1422892151110&peasin=198212879

Friday, September 27, 2013

Mr. (Rev. Dr. Prof.) Allen Guelzo's Top Five Biographies

From the Gospel "Allies and Ralleyists," a note from Mr. Justin Taylor re: Mr. (Rev. Dr. Prof.) Allen Guelzo, a world class scholar... and a man with good sense and an old Anglican Book of Common Prayer...and with Reformed perspectives.  Here are Mr. Guelzo's recommendations as exemplars of a genre.

Allen Guelzo’s Top 5 Biographies

Allen Guelzo’s Top 5 Biographies



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Allen C. Guelzo is the Henry R. Luce Professor of the Civil War Era and Director of the Civil War Era Studies Program at Gettysburg College. He began his scholarly career working on Jonathan Edwards (Edwards on the Will: A Century of Theological Debate [1989] was a revision of his doctoral dissertation). His 1999 biography of Abraham Lincoln: Redeemer President won the prestigious Lincoln Prize, as did his Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation: The End of Slavery in AmericaMore recently he has written a new history of the Civil War, and his latest book is on the battle of Gettysburg.

Here are five biographies he believes represent the genre at its best.

1. Perry Miller, Jonathan Edwards (1949).

Although lopsided in its effort to place Edwards in the stream of John Locke, Miller’s Edwards is a work of real literary genius.

2. Richard S. Westfall, Never at Rest: A Biography of Isaac Newton (1980).

A glowingly comprehensive and sympathetic biography of one of the greatest of scientific minds.

3. Peter Brown, Augustine of Hippo (1967).

A stupendously erudite re-creation, not only of Augustine, but of the entire world of late antiquity.

4. Edmund S. Morgan, The Puritan Dilemma: The Story of John Winthrop (1962).

A short but wickedly-well-written biography of the first governor of the Massachusetts Bay colony, done with surprising sympathy.

5. Henry D. Rack, Reasonable Enthusiast: John Wesley and the Rise of Methodism (1989).
No other single work on Wesley and 18th-century England captures the times and the man so well.

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