Classic Studies on Justification (19 vols.)

Paton J. Gloag was minister of Blantyre. He is the author of An Introduction to the Pauline Epistles, Introduction to the Johannine Writings, and A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Acts of the Apostles.

Peter Haslam was a nineteenth-century English clergyman and theologian.

James Hervey (1714–1758) was an English clergyman, writer, and poet. While studying at Oxford, he joined John Wesley as a member of the Holy Club, but later adopted a Calvinistic creed.

John Wesley (1703–1791) is recognized as the founder of Methodism. His collected works are available in the John Wesley Collection (29 vols.). An acclaimed preacher, Wesley traveled extensively on horseback and drew large crowds for his outdoor sermons. A contemporary of William Wilberforce, Wesley was a strong voice opposing slavery in England and the United States. His influence upon modern Christianity can be seen by the large number of Methodist organizations in the Wesleyan tradition all over the world.

John Brown (1722–1787), was a Scottish divine and author. His works are collected in the The Works of John Brown of Haddington (14 vols.), and include The Self-Interpreting Bible, The Dictionary of the Bible, and The Systematic Theology of John Brown.

John Anderson (1748–1830) was a Presbyterian theologian. He was born in the far north of England, by the River Tweed. He was brought up as a member of the (Secession) Church of Scotland and became a pastor. He sailed to the United States in June 1783, and was ordained in Philadelphia in 1788. He later became the founding professor of the first Presbyterian seminary in America, Pittsburgh Theological Seminary, founded in 1794.

Ebenezer Erskine (1680–1754) was a Scottish minister whose actions led to the establishment of the Secession Church in Scotland. His works are collected in The Whole Works of the Rev. Ebenezer Erskine (3 vols.). Erskine’s father was a victim of the Great Ejection under the Act of Uniformity in 1662, and was imprisoned for several years during Ebenezer’s childhood. Ebenezer studied at the University of Edinburgh and then became minister of Portmoak, where he served for 28 years, until he moved to the West Church in Stirling, where he served for 23 years.

Following in his fathers footsteps, he was rebuked at the General Assembly in 1722 for defending the doctrines found in The Marrow of Modern Divinity. In 1733 he was suspended because of his democratic stance on lay patronage. In protest, Erskine and the other suspended ministers formed their own church court, no longer acknowledging the authority of the General Assembly. This eventually lead to Ebenezer being deposed, though he continued to preach to a large and influential congregation in Stirling until his death in 1754.

William Cudworth was an eighteenth-century English clergyman in Norwich.

John Colquhoun (1748–1827) was a Scottish minister in Edinburgh. He was educated at Glasgow University and was greatly influenced by Thomas Boston’s Fourfold State.

John Witherspoon (1723–1794) was a Presbyterian minister, president of what is now Princeton University, and a signatory of the US Declaration of Independence. His works are collected in The Works of the Rev. John Witherspoon (4 vols.).

Witherspoon was born in East Lothian, Scotland. He studied divinity at the University of St. Andrews and the University of Edinburgh. He became a minister in the (Presbyterian) Church of Scotland in 1745 and served in Ayrshire and Paisley until 1768 when he immigrated to North America to become the sixth president of the College of New Jersey at Princeton. He instituted numerous reforms and taught several courses during his time as president.

Witherspoon disagreed with the growing British interference in the colonies and supported the American Revolution as part of New Jersey’s congressional delegation. As a politician, he was a staunch nationalist and republican; as a minister he was an Evangelical opponent of the Moderate Party of the Church of Scotland. He died in 1794 and is buried in the Princeton Cemetery.

John Owen (1616–1683) is considered one of the most influential theologians of the seventeenth century. He entered Queen’s College, Oxford, at the age of 12 and completed his MA in classics and theology at the age of 19.

His first parish was at Fordham in Essex where he became convinced that the Congregational polity was the scriptural form of church government. In the 1640s he became chaplain to Oliver Cromwell, and traveled with him on his expeditions to Ireland and Scotland.

In 1651 he was appointed dean of Christ Church and in 1652 made vice-chancellor of Oxford—positions which allowed him to train ministers for the Cromwellian state church. Owen later moved to London and led the Puritans through the bitter years of religious and political persecution—experiences which shaped his theological inquiry, pastoral reflection, and preaching. Owen authored Temptation and Sin, and one of the richest commentaries on the book of Hebrews, An Exposition of the Epistle to the Hebrews (7 vols.) which are also included in The Works of John Owen (24 vols.), along with other sermons and essays.

John Berridge (1716–1793) was an evangelical Anglican clergyman and a hymn writer. In the prime of his career he preached a dozen sermons a week and was commended by John Wesley as “one of the most simple as well as most sensible men of all whom i pleased God to employ in reviving primitive Christianity.”

Matthias Loy (1828–1915) was an American Lutheran theologian in the Evangelical Lutheran Joint Synod of Ohio. Loy was a prominent pastor, editor, author, and hymn writer, and served as president of Capital University, Columbus, Ohio.

George Holden (1783–1865) was a theological writer and accomplished Hebraist. He was educated at Glasgow University and is the author of An Attempt towards an Improved Translation of the Proverbs of Solomon and An Attempt to Illustrate the Book of Ecclesiastes.

Francis Patrick Kenrick (1796–1863) was an Irish Catholic cleric. He served as the bishop of Philadelphia as well as Archbishop of Baltimore. He also published a noted translation of the Vulgate Bible.

George Junkin (1780–1868) was an American educator and Presbyterian minister. He was the first president of Lafayette College and was later president of Miami University and Washington and Lee University.

Richard Baxter (1615–1691) was an English pastor and theologian. Though never attended university, he was a voracious learner. In 1633 he had a brief experience of court life at Whitehall, but turned from the court in disgust and studied theology. In 1638 he was ordained by the bishop of Worcester and preached in various places till 1641, when he began his ministry at Kidderminster. Many of his works are collected in The Practical Works of the Rev. Richard Baxter (23 vols.).

James Thomas O’Brien (1792–1874) was a fellow of Trinity College at the University of Dublin and the bishop of Ossory, Ireland.

James Buchanan (1804-1870) was a Scottish minister and theologian, ordained in the Church of Scotland in 1827. He is the author of The Office and Work of the Holy Spirit.In 1828 he commenced a very successful ministry at North Leith where he gained a great reputation as an earnest and eloquent preacher of the Word of God. In 1845 he was appointed to the Chair of Apologetics at New College, Edinburgh, and in 1847 he succeeded Chalmers as Professor of Systematic Theology. He retired in 1868 and died two years later.

George Stanley Faber (1773–1854) was a prolific author and Anglican theologian educated at University College, Oxford. In 1801 he was a Bampton lecturer at the University of Oxford. A controversial writer, he published over 20 books, most of which provoked discussion and debate. Several of his works are collected in the Selected Works of George Stanley Faber (7 vols.).

John Henry Newman (1801–1890) was an important figure in the religious history of England in the nineteenth century. He was known nationally by the mid-1830s. Originally an evangelical Oxford academic and priest in the Church of England, Newman was a leader in the Oxford Movement. This influential grouping of Anglicans wished to return the Church of England to many Catholic beliefs and forms of worship traditional in the medieval times to restore ritual expression. In 1845, Newman left the Church of England and was received into the Roman Catholic Church where he was eventually granted the rank of cardinal by Pope Leo XIII.

He was instrumental in the founding of the Catholic University of Ireland, which evolved into University College, Dublin. Newman’s beatification was officially proclaimed by Pope Benedict XVI on September 19, 2010 during his visit to the United Kingdom.

Newman’s major writings include his autobiography, Apologia Pro Vita Sua, The Grammar of Assent, and the poem “The Dream of Gerontius.”