This abridged edition of Winthrop's journal, which incorporates about 40 percent of the governor's text, with his spelling and punctuation modernized, includes a lively Introduction and complete annotation.

Bainton wore his scholarship lightly and had a lively, readable style. His most popular book was Here I Stand: A Life of Martin Luther (1950), which sold more than a million copies.

In an astonishing history, a work of strikingly original research and interpretation, Heyrman shows how the evangelical Protestants of the late-18th century affronted the Southern Baptist majority of the day, not only by their opposition to ...

Rendered in modern English, the tales provide an invaluable primary resource for medievalists, anthropologists, psychologists, folklorists, and students of women's studies and Judaica.

World-renowned preacher John Stott in this book clearly defines both the fundamental claims of Christianity and the proper out-workings of those basic beliefs in the daily lives of believers.

Based on much new information, this biography examines the life and times of one of the most prominent African-American intellectuals of the nineteenth century.

This second edition features an afterword by the author and an expanded bibliography. 'A well-written, clear and fascinating study.'

John Wolffe provides an authoritative account of evangelicalism from the 1790s to the 1840s, making extensive use of primary sources.

Now available in a new edition, this highly regarded analysis takes readers through the full history of the origin and direction of one of America's most influential religious movements.

In this psychobiography, Erik H. Erikson brings his insights on human development and the identity crisis to bear on the prominent figure of the Protestant Reformation, Martin Luther.