Preachers, Pastors, and Ambassadors: Puritan Wisdom for Today's Church

Publisher Marketing: Puritan ministers saw themselves as ambassadors for God, called to proclaim his word and shepherd his people. They sought to pastor and lead people through the word clearly preached and the sacraments rightly administered, and by means of a godly church discipline. In this second compilation of recent St. Antholin's Lectures we see and hear the Puritans in action, and are encouraged to apply their godly wisdom in our own day. Peter Adam Word and Spirit: The Puritan-Quaker Debate. Wallace BennUsher on Bishops: A Reforming Ecclesiology. Peter AckroydStrangers to Correction: Christian Discipline and the English Reformation. David Field"Decalogue" Dod and his Seventeenth Century Bestseller: A 400th Anniversary Appreciation. Chad B. Van DixhoornA Puritan Theology of Preaching. Peter Adam'To Bring Men to Heaven by Preaching' - John Donne's Evangelistic Sermons. Tony Baker1807 - 2007: John Newton and the Twenty-first Century. Lee GatissFrom Life's First Cry: John Owen on Infant Baptism and Infant Salvation. Andrew AtherstoneEvangelical Mission and Anglican Church Order: Charles Simeon Reconsidered David HollowayRe-establishing the Christian Faith - and the Public Theology Deficit. The compilation is edited by Lee Gatiss, and opens with his introduction: The Grand Nursery of Puritanism: St. Antholin's as a Strategic Centre for Gospel Ministry. Contributor Bio:  Adam, Peter Adam is principal of Ridley College in Melbourne, Australia. He was formerly vicar of St. Jude's in nearby Carlton. His other books include Speaking God's Words: A Practical Theology of Preaching. Contributor Bio:  Ackroyd, Peter Peter Ackroyd is the author of "Thames"; "London: The Biography"; "Albion: The Origins of the English Imagination" several successful novels; and the Ackroyd's Brief Lives series.