Up for sale on eBay are two volumes (the original work is in four volumes, but only two are available in this listing) from a 1725 edition of Humphrey Prideaux’s, The Old and New Testaments Connected, in the History of the Jews and Neighbouring Nations, From the Declension of the Kingdoms of Israel and Judah [...]

Wipf and Stock Publishers has released a new addition to their Jonathan Edwards Classic Studies Series, Jonathan Edwards and the Covenant of Grace by Carl W. Bogue.  Here’s the publisher’s description: Twentieth century discussions of Edwards’ covenant theology frequently named a tension in the purity of Edwards’ Calvinism. Was his insistent teaching on the covenant [...]

Monergism.com is running a special on the Hendrickson edition of the 2 volume Works of Jonathan Edwards.  This set is helpful in aggregating many of Edwards’s best-known works in just two volumes, and can be perfect for those wanting to get a broad sense of his thought.  However, if you decide to get this set, [...]

The rise of American evangelicalism has long fascinated scholars.  In his recent work, The Great Awakening, Thomas S. Kidd presents the story of American evangelicalism through the lens of the concurrent rise of American revivalism.  Revivalism has often been discussed in terms of the “First” and “Second” Great Awakenings, but such a dichotomy does not [...]

I’m still reading through Kidd’s The Great Awakening and came across this story that needs to be shared.  The story involves Philip Mulkey, a rough and tumble back country man, who would later help found a Separate Baptist church in South Carolina in 1760.  Kidd describes that shortly after his conversion, Mulkey began to preach, [...]