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Personal Correspondence
Lewis‘s private correspondence was as prolific as his writing for publication. Here are some samples of his letters.

Resolutions of Jonathan Edwards
Mark Noll Mark A. Noll is professor of history at Wheaton College, Wheaton, Illinois. He is an editor of Eerdman's Handbook of Christianity in America, and the author of Christians and the American Revolution.

Jonathan Edwards and the Great Awakening: From the Publisher

Jonathan Edwards and the Great Awakening: Did You Know?

Excerpts from the Life of Jonathan Edwards
SAMUEL HOPKINS Samuel Hopkins was a student, friend, and admirer of Jonathan Edwards, and a frequent visitor to the Edwards home in Northampton. Impressed by Edwards and the serenity of the Edwards family, Hopkins penned the first biography of his famous teacher. The full title of the biography is The Life and Character of the Late Reverend Mr. Jonathan Edwards. It was first published in 1765. These excerpts are representative of Hopkins' style

Colonial New England: An Old Order, New Awakening
J. STEPHEN LANG AND MARK A. NOLL J. Stephen Lang is editor of this issue of Christian History and a book editor at Tyndale House, Wheaton, Illinois. Mark A. Noll is professor of history at Wheaton College, Wheaton, Illinois. He is an editor of Eerdman's Handbook of Christianity in America, and the author of Christians and the American Revolution

Jonathan Edwards: A Gallery of Friends, Foes & Followers

My Dear Companion
ELISABETH S. DODDS Elisabeth S. Dodds is the author of Marriage to a Difficult Man: The Uncommon Union of Jonathan and Sarah Edwards. She lives in Somerville, Massachusetts

Edwards' Theology
Puritanism Meets a New Age
RICHARD LOVELACE Richard Lovelace is professor of church history at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. He is the author of Dynamics of Spirituality and Homosexuality: What Should Christians Do About It?

Jonathan Edward's World: Christian History Timeline

The Puritans and Edwards
The American Vision of a Covenant People
HARRY S. STOUT Harry S. Stout is associate professor of history at the University of Connecticut. He has written extensively on Puritanism and the Great Awakening. This article is adapted from an address given at the conference "Jonathan Edwards and the Amencan Expenence," held at Wheaton College, October 1984

Jonathan Edwards Speaks to Our Technological Age
GEORGE M. MARSDEN George M. Marsden is professor of history at Calvin College. He is the author of Fundamentalism and American Culture, 1875–1925 and an editor of Eerdmans' Handbook to Christianity in America

From the Archives: Extracts from Two Sermons by Edwards

From the Archives: The Earliest Known Letter of Jonathan Edwards
This letter was written by the twelve-year-old Jonathan Edwards to his sister Mary on May 10, 1716.

Jonathan Edwards: Recommended Resources
Edwards' Works:

C.S. Lewis: From the Publisher

C.S. Lewis: Did You Know?
Facts about C.S. Lewis

C.S. Lewis: A Profile of His Life
LYLE DORSETT Lyle W. Dorsett is curator of the Marion E. Wade Collection, which houses C.S. Lewis's original manuscripts, letters, and papers at Wheaton College, Wheaton, Illinois. He is the author of And God Came In: The Extraordinary Story of Joy Davidman, Her Life and Marriage to C.S. Lewis, and co-editor of C.S. Lewis. Letters to Children

C.S. Lewis: Christian History Timeline

The Inklings

C.S. Lewis: A Gallery of Family and Friends
A Gallery of thumbnail sketches of close and influential family and friends of C.S. Lewis

Into the Land of Imagination
Lewis defined reason as the natural organ of truth and imagination as the organ of meaning.
Clyde Kilby

Teacher, Historian, Critic, Apologist
The output of Lewis's research and writing extends far beyond those works for which he is best known.
DABNEY HART Dabney Hart, Ph. D. is a professor in the Department of English, Georgia State University, Atlanta

Western Civilization at the Crossroads
What kind of future awaits as? What are our choices? Peter Kreeft looks at Lewis's view of the kind of history we are creating…
PETER KREEFT Peter Kreeft is professor of philosophy at Boston College and the author of 10 books, including C.S. Lewis, Heaven, the Heart's Deepest Longing; Between Heaven and Hell; and Yes or No?

Following that Bright Blur
Embracing the supernatural elements of Christianity while committed to its rationalism, Lewis brought an orthodox view of a transcendent, immanent God to the common man.
REV. JERRY ROOT The Rev. Jerry Root is college pastor of College Church in Wheaton, Illinois, and teaches philosophy at College of Dupage

Beyond the Double Bolted Door
The death of his wife severely tested Lewis's faith as well as his theology
DR. JOHN BEVERSLUIS Dr. John Beversluis is a professor of philosophy at Butler University. He has recently written C.S. Lewis and the Search for Rational Religion published by Eerdmans. This article treats some of the themes developed in more detail in that volume

The Great Divide
When I fail as a critic I may yet be useful as a specimen.

Have We No Right to Happiness?
The last published article by Lewis before his death asked this question.

The Kilns

C.S. Lewis: Recommended Resources

A People Called Baptist

The Baptists - A People Who Gathered to Walk in All His Ways: From the Publisher

The Baptists: Did You Know?

Baptists Emerge Out of a Century of Testing and Turmoil in the English Church

To Walk in All His Ways
Rev. Roger Hayden and Staff Roger Hayden, M.A., B.D., is a Baptist pastor in Reading, England and Secretary of the British Baptist Historical Society.

The Dippers Dipt: Not Quite So, Reverend Featley!
What Is a True Particular Visible Church? The Great Debate at Southwark Rejoined.
WILLIAM BRACKNEY, PH.D. Dr. Brackney is Executive Director of the American Baptist Historical Society.

Baptism: A Radical Act

The Gallery of Leaders, Evangelists, Thinkers and Movers in Baptist History

John Bunyan

The Baptists: Christian History Timeline

Religious Liberty: An Emotional Issue Still Not Settled

Baptist Distinctives
Five key convictions that have been essential to Baptists from their beginnings

Where are the Lions When We Really Need Them?
EDWIN S. GAUSTAD Dr. Gaustad is Professor of History at the University of California, Riverside

From the Archives: The Move to Believer's Baptism

From the Archives: Worship in John Smyth's Church

From the Archives: A Winter Baptism

From the Archives: Dippers: A Threat to Life and the State

From the Archives: In Defense of the Baptized Churches

From the Archives: A Day in the Life of William Carey

From the Archives: James R. Graves
An "Old Landmark Baptist" puts it on the line.

From the Archives: This Is My Body… This Is My Blood…

The Baptists: Recommended Resources

The Anabaptists: From the Publisher

The Anabaptists: Did You Know?

A Fire That Spread Anabaptist Beginnings
WALTER KLAASSEN Walter Klaassen, Ph.D., is a Professor of history at Conrad Grebel College of the University of Waterloo in Waterloo, Ontario

Anabaptism: Neither Catholic Nor Protestant
This article condensed and edited from the book by the same title. Used by permission.
WALTER KLAASSEN Walter Klaassen, Ph.D., is a Professor of history at Conrad Grebel College of the University of Waterloo in Waterloo, Ontario

The Anabaptists: A Gallery of Factions, Friends and Foes

Sticks and Stones Broke Their Bones, and Vicious Names Did Hurt Them
16th Century Responses to the Anabaptists
JOHN S. OYER John S. Oyer, Ph.D, is professor of history at Goshen College, Indiana

The Anabaptists: Christian History Timeline
A Quarter Century that Lit a Fire…that Spread to All the World!

Showing Them How to Die; Showing Them How to Live
This story of the Michael Sattler family, the Paul Glock family, and the Klaus von Grafeneck family has never been told before. On the surface, it is not a story at all but two rather isolated Anabaptist events, one in the 1520s involving Michael Sattler and one in the 1550s–70s involving Paul Glock. The courage and spirit displayed in these events, however, touched the lives of the van Grafenecks and make one historical vignette about the witness of dying and living in the spirit of Christ.
LEONARD GROSS

Telling Tales to Tell the Truth
JOSEPH S. MILLER Joseph S. Miler is archivist and administrator of the Mennonite Historians of Eastern Pennsylvania.

From the Martyr's Mirror
The Story of Hans Bret, Died January 1577

From the Archives: The Schleitheim Confession
Translated by Miriam Usher Chrisman. Printed at Strassburg by Jacob Frölich Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Wick Collection PAS II 1/2. The broadsheet is dated in the collection as 1544.

From the Archives: The Two Kingdoms
HANS SCHNELL, ca. 1575

From the Archives: Concerning the Drawings of the Early History of Anabaptism in Zurich and on Hutterian Missionaries in Switzerland

The Radical Reformation - The Anabaptists: Recommended Resources



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