Superbly portrays an influential figure in twentieth-century America and casts telling new light on his era.
Author: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.
Independent publisher since 1911 of intellectual books on ethics, theology, biblical studies, and social criticism, and Bible commentaries and dictionaries
Emblem of Faith Untouched: A Short Life of Thomas Cranmer
Williams masterfully displays the tension between Cranmer’s two central loyalties—allegiance to the crown and fidelity to the Reformation faith.
The First American Evangelical: A Short Life of Cotton Mather
The First American Evangelical: A Short Life of Cotton Mather Rick Kennedy Cotton Mather (1663-1728) was America’s most famous pastor and scholar at the beginning of the eighteenth century. People today generally associate him with the infamous Salem witch trials, but in this new biography Rick Kennedy tells a bigger story: Mather, he says, was…
Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Spiritual Life
The life story of Harriet Beecher Stowe—woman of faith, fascinating Civil War figure, author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Abraham Kuyper: Modern Calvinist, Christian Democrat
Abraham Kuyper: Modern Calvinist, Christian Democrat James D. Bratt This is the first full-scale English-language biography of the highly influential and astonishingly multifaceted Abraham Kuyper (1837-1920)—theologian, minister, politician, newspaper editor, educational innovator, Calvinist reformer, and prime minister of the Netherlands from 1901 to 1905. The definitive biography of Abraham Kuyper, giant of Dutch Calvinism James…
