Suggestion: Library of Religious Biography (Eerdmans)

Rosie Perera

I'd like to suggest the Library of Religious Biography series published by Eerdmans, which includes the following titles:

• Abraham Lincoln: Redeemer President (Allen G. Guelzo)
• Aimee Semple McPherson: Everybody's Sister (Edith Waldvogel Blumhofer)
• Assist Me to Proclaim: The Life and Hymns of Charles Wesley (John R. Tyson)
• Billy Sunday and the Redemption of Urban America (Lyle W. Dorsett)
• Blaise Pascal: Reasons of the Heart (Marvin Richard O'Connell)
• Charles G. Finney and the Spirit of American Evangelicalism (Charles E. Hambrick-Stowe)
• The Divine Dramatist: George Whitefield and the Rise of Modern Evangelicalism (Harry S. Stout)
• Emily Dickinson and the Art of Belief (Roger Lundin)
• Francis Schaeffer and the Shaping of Evangelical America (Barry Hankins)
• God's Strange Work: William Miller and the End of the World (David L. Rowe)
• Her Heart Can See: The Life and Hymns of Fanny J. Crosby (Edith Waldvogel Blumhofer)
• The Kingdom Is Always But Coming: A Life of Walter Rauschenbucsh (Christopher Hodge Evans) (out of print)
• Liberty of Conscience: Roger Williams in America (Edwin S. Gaustad) (out of print)
• Occupy until I Come: A. T. Pierson and the Evangelization of the World (Dana L. Robert)
• Orestes A. Brownson: American Religious Weathervane (Patrick W. Carey)
• Prophetess of Health: A Study of Ellen G. White (Ronald L. Numbers)
• The Puritan as Yankee: A Life of Horace Bushnell (Robert Bruce Mullin)
• A Short Life of Jonathan Edwards (George M. Marsden)
• Sworn on the Altar of God: A Religious Biography of Thomas Jefferson (Edwin S. Gaustad)
• Thomas Merton and the Monastic Vision (Lawrence S. Cunningham)
• William Ewart Gladstone: Faith and Politics in Victorian Britain (D.W. Bebbington)

Some are by stellar authors, others get excellent reviews on Amazon.com. Some are probably not as great as others, but it would be good to have them all as a collection.

Ted Hans

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