JAMES A. DICKSON BOOKS REFORMATION 2017 LIST (+44) 01236 827 978 [email protected] Meet Martin Luther: A Sketch The Legacy of Luther of the Reformer’s Life Edited by R. C. Sproul and By Anthony Selvaggio. Stephen J. Nichols. RHB.-2017. lfpb. 168pp. Reformation Trust-2017. d.w RRP £6.99 for £5.95 £15.99 for £13.95 “There is no better time to get In this volume, R.C. Sproul, to know Martin Luther—or to Stephen J. Nichols, and thirteen get to know him again—than the five-hundredth other scholars and pastors examine Luther’s life, anniversary of the year he changed the world. As an teaching, and enduring influence. Meet Martin introduction to his life, thought, and contributions, Luther, the mercurial Reformer who, out of love this work strikes just the right chord. Enjoy getting for the truth and the desire to bring it to light, set to know and coming to admire one of the towering the world ablaze. figures of history!” Contributors include Joel R. Beeke, Sinclair B. —Tim Challies, author of Visual Theology Ferguson, R. C. Sproul, Steven J. Nichols, W. Robert Godfrey, Derek Thomas etc. Knowing God and Ourselves: Reading Calvin’s Institutes Devotionally Institutes of the Christian Religion By David Calhoun BOT.-2017. d.w. 360pp. By John Calvin RRP £15.00 for £13.95 BOT.-2014. d.w. 920pp RRp £19.00 for £14.95 The goal of Knowing God and Ourselves is to help students, especially beginning students, of The Institutes of the Christian Religion are Calvin’s Institutes of the Christian Religion to Calvin’s single most important work, and one of better understand what they are reading and to the key texts to emerge from the Reformation of encourage them to persist in working through the sixteenth century. The book accompanied this important but challenging book. the Reformer throughout his life, growing in size from what was essentially an expanded catechism in 1536 to a full-scale work of biblical theology in The Heidelberg Catechism 1559/1560. BOT. Gift edition The present translation is newly made from the RRP £10.00 for £8.95 French edition of 1541 by Robert White. It has been designed and annotated with the needs of a A fine imitation leather edition of this wide readership in mind. influential catehcism, first published in Germany in 1563 and written by the reformed theologians, Zacharius Ursinius and Caspar Olevianus. Luther on the Christian Life: The Works of William Cross and Freedom Tyndale By Carl Trueman Crossway-2015. lfpb. 224pp. BOT. d.w’s. 2 RRP £13.99 for £11.95 volumes. RRP £33.00 for £28.00 In Luther on the Christian Life, historian Carl Trueman A quality reprint of the introduces readers to the lively Reformer, taking Parker Society two volumes of works from this them on a tour of his historical context, theological highly influential Reformer and Bible translator. system, and approach to the Christian life. Whether exploring Luther’s theology of protest, ever- Consisting of Tyndale’s Doctrinal Treatises, present sense of humor, or misunderstood view of including The Obedience of the Christian Man, sanctification, this book will help modern readers The Parable of the Wicked Mammon etc. and go deeper in their spiritual walk by learning from introductions to various portions of scripture. one of the great teachers of the faith. LONG LINE OF GODLY MEN SERIES Volumes on Martin Luther, John Calvin, John Knox and William Tyndale available. By Stephen J. Lawson and Knox by Douglas Bond. Reformation Trust. d.w. c150pp each RRP £12.50 for £9.95 each This series conceived and edited by Stephen J. Lawson, “is designed to introduce giants of the Christian Faith and to show how they used their particular spiritual gifts” in serving God. They set these men before us in a lively, readable way as encouragment to Christians today when much Reformation in the church is needed. Each book in the series is around 150 pages, well laid out and attractivley presented. 2 Reformation 2017 catalogue Theodore Beza. The Man and William Farel the Myth By Jason Zuidema EP. lfpb. 128pp By Shawn D. Wright RRP £5.99 for £4.95 CFP-2015. lfpb. 256pp RRP £8.99 for £7.95 Jason Zuidema has written a thrilling account of William Theodore Beza was a man Farel’s life and challenges the who in his day was one of the classic thinking that a worn- luminaries of the Protestant world, who took the out Farel handed over to Calvin reins of the beleaguered Calvinistic movement in Geneva. Although Farel was some twenty years after its namesake’s death, and who influenced older than Calvin he was an intellectual giant English-speaking Protestantism more than you and continued to be a major influence in the might imagine. Shawn D. Wright casts light on Reformation process. a figure often neglected and helps illustrate the significant impact of his faith and influence. Ulrich Zwingli By William Boekstein John Knox EP. lfpb. 164pp RRP £7.99 for £6.75 By John J. Murray EP. lfpb. 112pp. Ulrich Zwingli of Zurich, a great RRP £5.99 for £4.95 reformer overshadowed by two greater, Luther and Calvin, John J.Murray shows how Knox, should be much better known as well as modelling the Church than he is. This well-informed and workmanlike in Scotland, laid the foundation book will surely make him so.’ of an extraordinary forward-looking new state, way ahead of the time in such matters as education, J.I. Packer, Board of Governors’ Professor of social welfare and democracy. The Reformation Theology, Regent College had its effect in all spheres of national life and John Knox roused the common man to a sense of his true dignity. Thomas Cranmer By Colin Hamer Girolamo Savonarola EP. lfpb. 128pp RRP £5.99 for £4.95 By Douglas Bond & Douglas McComas Thomas Cranmer, one of EP. lfpb. 144pp. the Reformation’s most RRP £6.99 for £5.95 famous martyrs, can accurately be described as the architect of the Church of England. His “Girolamo Savonarola deserves involvement in England’s break with the Roman to be better known and here is Church was crucial. the ideal introduction to his life and work. A Roman Catholic monk in Italy, the very heart of Catholicism, This book looks to assess his life from the he nevertheless understood the meaning of grace. perspective of a 21st century evangelical Christian No less a figure than Martin Luther affirmed that – that is someone who accepts the Bible as the Savonarola held to justification by faith alone. This final authority on what God requires of men and gripping account traces his story through to death at women in this life. It is a term that Cranmer, as the hands of his persecutors.” he neared his famous, dreadful, and glorious end, would have been happy to have applied to himself. James A. Dickson Books 3 Let Christ Be Magnified. John Calvin Man of God’s Calvin’s Teaching for Today Word Written and Preached By J. H. Merle D’Aubigne By Peter Barnes BOT.-2007. lfpb. 54pp. BOT.-2011. lfpb. 8+129pp RRP £5.50 for £4.75 RRP £5.50 for £4.95 This book grew from sermons Good study of Calvin’s preached at Germany, 400 Emphasis on the Word of God. years after Calvin’s death. D’Aubigne ably sketches Barnes’ makes difficult theological issues easy to Calvin’s life teaching and relevance today focusing comprehend and inspires us from Calvin’s own on his magnifying of Christ. words to take up the same battles in our own day. John Knox and the Scottish A Reformation Guide to Reformation Scripture: The Prologues from the Geneva Bible 1560 By D. M. Lloyd-Jones & Iain H. Murray. BOT.-2011. lfpb. 130pp. BOT.-2010. lfpb. 152pp. RRP £5.50 for £4.95 RRP £5.50 for £4.95 This little book comprises three A well produced volume adresses. The first and second by presenting mordern readers Lloyd-Jones calling the Church to rememberance with the introductions to each book of the Bible of the Reformation and the role Knox played from the 1st edition of the Geneva Bible. in it, his influence on the English Church and Puritanism, The third address by I. H. Murray is Synonymous with the Reformation, the Geneva mainly biographical. A very readable little volume Bible was the first edition of the Bible intended commemorating the 500th aniversary of the birth for ‘ordinary’ Christians. It was the first Bible of Knox. to be laid out in verses and contained helpful introductory and explanatory notes. A Clear and Simple Treatise on the Lord’s Supper The Works of John Knox By Theodore Beza RHB-2016. BOT.-2014. d.w’s. RRP £33.50 for £24.95 6 volumes. RRP £95.00 Theodore Beza’s A Clear and for £85.00 Simple Treatise on the Lord’s Supper (1559) Unfortunately for advances a tireless defense of the Reformed many years hardback perspective on the Lord’s Supper, responding sets of Knox’s chapter by chapter to specific arguments raised Works have been virtually unobtainable by, and against John Calvin by his Lutheran opponent inaccessible to, the general public. Now, to mark Joachim Westphal. Beza makes great use of the the 500th anniversary of his birth (probably in concept of metonymy, or a figure of speech, in his 1514) and the 150th anniversary of the completion interpretation of the words of institution, yet he of the first definitive edition of the Scottish equally champions the position that the Lord’s reformer’s Works (1846-64), these rare volumes Supper is not a bare symbol and in it we have true have been reprinted.