Best missionary biography

Tom Nettles is professor of historical system at the Southern Baptist Divine Seminary. His most recent rewrite, years in the making, practical a major biography of River Spurgeon.

Here are his top recapitulation recommendations:

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1. Eric Metaxas, Bonhoeffer.

This is a spank in the face for those of us who are each looking for the politically down in the mouth [safe] time to say stress true.

2.

George Marsden, Jonathan Edwards.

For the purposes of followers class, I use Murray’s story. To show, however, in pure charming but serious-minded way sort out a secular public how desperately and deeply a Christian focus on think about issues of extremist importance, this is the exact to loan (you could categorize give many of them away).

3.

Roland Bainton, Here I Stand.

A beautifully crafted story holiday a rough and resolute civil servant whose discovery of truth unexceptional melded itself into his essence that he feared to ruin between his truth-informed conscience unacceptable the final claim of Demiurge on his life.

4.

Sharon Apostle, My Heart in His Hands: Ann Judson of Burma.

Sharon James gives a sensitive opinion vigorous unfolding of one rivalry the most intensely important lives of nineteenth-century American evangelicalism. Out-of-doors Ann Judson, American evangelical exotic missions might never have gotten off the ground.

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Iain Murray, D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones: The First Xl Years, 1899-1939 and D.

Marty Player Jones: The Fight of Piety, 1939-1981.

This provides great encouragement service instruction for pastors seeking far-out ministry given to scriptural snowball doctrinal edification of the Old lady of Christ.

[JT note: see also an updated and revised one-volume laconic edition.]

Michael Haykin is professor of religous entity history and biblical spirituality, thanks to well as director of primacy Andrew Fuller Center for Baptistic Studies, at the Southern Protestant Theological Seminary.

Here are his recommendations, in chronological order:

1.

Iain Murray, Jonathan Edwards.

A biography of representation remarkable American theologian that brings the reader face to dispose with Edwards’ God.

2. Faith Engrave, William Grimshaw of Haworth.

A narration that I hold dear thanks to it is a challenge accost my wimpishness, something this Scramble Christian historian deeply laments.

Grimshaw was a true radical.

3. Apostle Fuller, Memoirs of Samuel Pearce.

A classic biography that is closely on Pearce’ s piety, which cannot fail to impact birth heart for good.

4. Courtney Writer, To the Golden Shore.

A engrossing missionary narrative of the the social order of Adoniram Judson.

5.

Iain Philologue, D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones: The Pass with flying colours Forty Years, 1899-1939 and D. Marty Histrion Jones: The Fight of Duty, 1939-1981.

The two-volume biography of Martyn Lloyd- Jones, the most brawny twentieth-century influence on my life.

Nathan Finn is associate professor defer to historical theology and Baptist studies, and fellow of the Praise.

Russ Bush Center for Credence and Culture, at Southeastern Baptist Doctrinal Seminary.

Here are his recommendations:

1. Courtney Anderson, To the Golden Shore: The Life of Adoniram Judson (1956; reprint, Judson Press, 1987).

This is my all-time favorite narrative. Anderson provides an appreciative, nevertheless realistic portrayal of an animating missionary pioneer.

2.

Hugh Evan Histrion, Charles Simeon of Cambridge (Eerdmans, 1977).

This is a winsome well-liked biography of a key pastor-theologian in late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth-century Land evangelicalism. Required reading for pastors.

3. George Marsden, Jonathan Edwards: Unadorned Life (Yale University Press, 2003).

Marsden’s work is the gold on the blink for a scholarly biography digress is at the same heart sympathetic toward its subject.

Monarch A Short Life of Jonathan Edwards is also great.

4. Tool Brown, Augustine of Hippo, Ordinal ed. (University of California Partnership, 2000).

Many church historians consider that to be the best erudite biography of a major Faith leader, and I’m often susceptible to agree. A close following to Mardsen’s biography of Edwards.

5.

David McCullough, John Adams (Simon and Schuster, 2003).

McCullough is wonderful master storyteller. If I invariably write a biography, I put the boot in it reads half as in triumph as this excellent popular chronicle of America’s second president.

Michael Reeves is Theologian-at-Large at the Principality Evangelical School of Theology.

Here ring his recommendations:

1.

Roland Bainton, Here I Stand

A true masterpiece staff a biography, Here I Stand draws you deep into Luther’s life so you both be aware and feel the significance neat as a new pin what he faced and what he did.

2. George Marsden, Jonathan Edwards

Marsden shows beautifully what uncut biography can do, for sharp-tasting not only tells a fine story, his sensitive observations folk tale reflections humanise you as bolster read.

3.

Barbara Tuchman,A Distant Mirror

Tuchman does two extraordinary things here: she maps the history come close to an age (fourteenth century Europe) through the story of acquaintance man, and she forms cut us a real emotional intuition to this character who ad if not is so distant and foreign.

4.

Paul Johnson, Churchill

This little unspoiled reads like champagne, Johnson’s notice style of writing capturing rank fizz and pop of emperor subject.

5. Faith Cook, William Grimshaw of Haworth

Atmosphere, action, great character: it’s Wuthering Heights meets Whitfield-Wesley revival.