Iain H. Murray. The Life of John Murray. Banner of Truth, 2007. 240 pp.
John Murray’s commentary on the book of Romans has long been considered the answer book for biblical expositors when they come to study the grand epistle. So when I see a biography come along that introduces me to the man behind the works like his Romans commentary and Redemption, Accomplished and Applied, I am helplessly drawn in.
The Life of John Murray is what we have come to expect from Ian Murray (no relation to John). It is a well-written enjoyable chronicle of the life of a significant evangelical player. Ian Murray is able to give us many details without drowning us in peripherals.
John Murray grew up in Scotland and served his country in the military during the first World War, even loosing an eye from a shrapnel blast. In journeying through Murray’s life it becomes clear that his family and country are tattooed on his innermost affections. Throughout his four decades in America he made over twenty trips over the Atlantic to see his family.
Reviewed by Erik Raymond.
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Anthony L. Chute. A Piety Above the Common Standard: Jesse Mercer and the Defense of Evangelistic Calvinism. Mercer University Press, 2004. 238 pp.
The concerns of the day could be summarized as follows: disputes over Calvinism, with anti-Calvinists pursuing a divisively vocal course; earnest desire for “a revival that will last all winter;” intense debates about world missions and new methods being used to reach the lost; conflicting opinions on the question of whether persons baptized by others need to be re-baptized; debates over whether theological education breeds pride and liberalism; and divided opinions on the possibility of cooperation with those who disagree.
Reviewed by Dr. Jim Hamilton.
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Iain H. Murray. Evangelicalism Divided: A Record of Crucial Change in the Years 1950 to 2000. Banner of Truth, 2000. x + 342 pp.
Iain Hamish Murray (b. 1931) has authored about two dozen books on historical theology from a Reformed perspective. His mentor was David Martyn Lloyd-Jones, whom Murray assisted at Westminster Chapel from 1956 to 1959 and about whom Murray wrote a stirring two-volume biography (vol. 1, vol. 2). In 1957, Murray co-founded the Banner of Truth Trust, which has published his many writings and for which he serves as Editorial Director.
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Timothy T. Larsen, David W. Bebbington, and Mark A. Noll, eds. Biographical Dictionary of Evangelicals. IVP, 2003. 789 pp.
1. Overview
This nearly 800-page tome is a mini-library of condensed biographies. This practical reference tool contains biographical sketches for over four hundred outstanding evangelicals in alphabetical order.
1.1. Theologically, they are part of the identifiable network of evangelicals. Larsen defines an evangelical according to Bebbington and Noll’s standards. In Evangelicalism in Modern Britain, Bebbington proposed that there are four essential characteristics of evangelicals: “conversionism, activism, biblicism, and crucicentrism” (BDE, p. 1). Noll’s Between Faith and Criticism “uses a thoroughgoing descriptive approach, arguing that the evangelical community is a readily identifiable network and that therefore those who can be seen to be a part of that network are the proper subjects of studies in evangelicalism” (BDE, p. 1).
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Mark Taylor Dalhouse. An Island in the Lake of Fire: Bob Jones University, Fundamentalism, and the Separatist Movement. University of Georgia Press, 1996. 211 pp.
The story of Bob Jones University is compelling on many levels. Its historical roots trace back to the revivalism of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the fundamentalist-modernist controversy of the 1920s, and the Great Depression of the 1930s. Though founded by a fiery evangelist, BJU became the school that laid red carpet on the sawdust trail. While its separatist stance drew criticism from all corners, BJU nevertheless sought to become a school for all orthodox believers, regardless of denomination.
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