
Product Details
- Cover Type:
- 240 Pages
- Publisher: P&R Publishing Company
- Publication Date: November 2011
- ISBN: SCOOPEDETHOMASMANTONAGUIDEDT9781596382138
Thomas Manton: A Guided Tour of the Life and Thought of a Puritan Pastor (Guided Tour of Church History)
Publisher’s Description
Thomas Manton (1620–77) was an influential Puritan preacher and an important figure in English Society. This book has two aims, to introduce readers in an engaging manner to Manton and, through this pivotal figure, to provide an introduction to the movement known as “Puritanism,” concisely addressing its historical, social, and political contexts.
About the Author
Derek Cooper (Ph.D., Lutheran Seminary, M.A., M.Div. Biblical Theological Seminary, Hatfield, PA) is Assistant Professor of Biblical Studies and Historical Theology at Biblical Seminary in Hatfield, PA, where he is also the Director of the LEAD Master of Divinity Program. He is the author of So You’re Thinking about Going to Seminary? and a volume editor in the forthcoming Reformation Commentary on Scripture.
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“Derek Cooper has done the church a great service by making Manton’s life and work accessible.”
Daniel R. Hyde
pastor of Oceanside United Reformed Church
“The scholarly world and today’s pastors alike owe a tremendous debt to Dr. Cooper’s careful rehabilitation of this key figure of seventeenth–century England.”
Timothy J. Wengert
Professor of Church History at the Lutheran Theological Seminary
“Once a shining star in the Puritan firmament, long–forgotten Thomas Manton fully deserves the renewed appreciation that he receives here.”
J. I. Packer
Regent College
Product Description
Publisher’s Description
Thomas Manton (1620–77) was an influential Puritan preacher and an important figure in English Society. This book has two aims, to introduce readers in an engaging manner to Manton and, through this pivotal figure, to provide an introduction to the movement known as “Puritanism,” concisely addressing its historical, social, and political contexts.
About The Author
Product Details
- Cover Type:
- 240 Pages
- Publisher: P&R Publishing Company
- Publication Date: November 2011
- ISBN: SCOOPEDETHOMASMANTONAGUIDEDT9781596382138