The Weekly Historian: 52 Reflections on Church History

by Michael A. G. Haykin

Publisher:

Hesed & Emet

, 2021

Overview

“Every Christian ought to be a good historian, and if his knowledge of history be improved by him as it ought, the better historian he is, the better Christian will he be.” This pithy remark by eighteenth-century Baptist leader, Caleb Evans, was delivered in a sermon calling “ordinary” Christian to read history and remember it, for in truth they were surrounded by its impact day after day.

This weekly reader is designed to help you become “a good historian” in the way that Evans desired. These 52 weekly reflections, each of which takes but a few minutes to read, are a reminder of how important history—in this case, actually, church history—is for the believer.

Key Features

• Includes 52 weekly reflections.
• Reminds how important history—in this case, actually, church history—is for the believer.
• Helps you become “a good historian”.

Contents

• Table of images
• Introduction
• 1. “Every Christian ought to be a good historian”
• 2. On papyrus
• 3. A “frantic passion for purple”
• 4. Confessing the deity of the Holy Spirit
• 5. Converted by the Word of God
• 6. Introducing Macarius
• 7. Macarius on being human
• 8. Macarius on the sweetness of being a Christian
• 9. Basil of Caesarea’s friendship with Eusebius of Samosata
• 10. We are all Augustinians
• 11. Augustine on the Bible
• 12. Introducing Bede
• 13. Bede as a model historian
• 14. John of Damascus
• 15. Wisdom from Theodulf of Orléans
• 16. The church and the bubonic plague
• 17. Why we still need to remember the Reformation
• 18. The egg-laying of Erasmus
• 19. Revival at Heidelberg, 1518
• 20. Solo Sancto Spiritu: Luther at Worms in 1521
• 21. To spite the Pope
• 22. The Reformers divided
• 23. The emergence of the Anabaptists
• 24. The best of Anabaptist thought
• 25. William Tyndale’s New Testament
• 26.“The loss of land and life I’ll reckon slight”
• 27. Hugh Latimer: England’s prophet during the Reformation
• 28. “To suffer for God’s holy Word’s sake”
• 29. John Calvin and his Institutes
• 30. John Calvin’s reflections on marriage
• 31. John Calvin and the Servetus affair
• 32. Katherine Willoughby, the Puritan Duchess
• 33. Richard Greenham: architect of Puritan pastoral piety
• 34. Roaring John Rogers
• 35. The church and the bubonic plague in later Stuart England
• 36. Margaret Charlton Baxter: a Puritan wife
• 37. The “coffee-man in Southwark”: James Jones
• 38. The hymns of Watts and the conversion of George Thomson
• 39. John Gill comes to London
• 40. “Moravianism at its loveliest and best”
• 41. Being Anne Steele
• 42. Loving the lost
• 43. Jonathan Edwards: a theologian of love
• 44. “The most pleasing colour”
• 45. Recalling the life and ministry of David Zeisberger
• 46. “Sweet solemnity and ardent love”
• 47. A meeting with John Berridge, the gospel pedlar
• 48. A wee note of Abraham Booth and our need for gentleness
• 49. Remembering Zenas Trivett
• 50. Listening afresh to C.H. Spurgeon
• 51. Remembering H.M. Gwatkin
• 52. Revival and the formation of a Toronto church in 1919
• Index

Product Details

• Title: The Weekly Historian: 52 Reflections on Church History
• Author: Michael A. G. Haykin
• Publisher: Hesed & Emet
• Print Publication Date: 2021
• Pages: 188
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
• ISBNs: 9781774840467, 1774840464
• Resource ID: LLS:WKLYH52CHRCHHST
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2024-09-12T15:50:01Z

About Michael A. G. Haykin

Michael A. G. Haykin (PhD, University of Toronto), born in England of Irish and Kurdish parents, Dr. Haykin is currently Professor of Church History and Biblical Spirituality. He has authored The Spirit of God: The Exegesis of 1 and 2 Corinthians in the Pneumatomachian Controversy of the Fourth Century (E. J. Brill, 1994); One Heart and One Soul: John Sutcliff of Olney, His Friends, and His Times (Evangelical Press, 1994); Kiffin, Knollys and Keach: Rediscovering Our English Baptist Heritage (Reformation Today Trust, 1996); At the Pure Fountain of Thy Word: Andrew Fuller as an Apologist (Paternoster Press, 2004); Jonathan Edwards: The Holy Spirit in Revival (Evangelical Press, 2005); The God Who Draws Near: An Introduction to Biblical Spirituality (Evangelical Press, 2007). Dr. Haykin and his wife Alison, and their two children, Victoria and Nigel, live in Dundas, Ontario.