The American Puritans

Name: The American Puritans
Brand: ONE Audiobooks
Availability: InStock
Rating: 3 (1 reviews)
Author: Dustin Benge
ISBN: 9781646890613

Author: Dustin Benge, Nate Pickowicz

Narrator: Lance Smith

Unabridged: 7 hr 9 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: One Audiobooks

Published: 04/29/2020

Categories: Nonfiction, Religion, Christian Theology, Christianity, History, Christian Church

Synopsis

In The American Puritans, Dustin Benge and Nate Pickowicz tell the story of the first hundred years of Reformed Protestantism in New England through the lives of nine key figures: William Bradford, John Winthrop, John Cotton, Thomas Hooker, Thomas Shepard, Anne Bradstreet, John Eliot, Samuel Willard, and Cotton Mather. Here is sympathetic yet informed history, a book that corrects many myths and half-truths told about the American Puritans while inspiring a current generation of Christians to let their light shine before men.

About The Author

DUSTIN W. BENGE (PhD, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary) is provost of Union School of Theology, Wales, visiting professor of Munster Bible College, Cork, Ireland and a Senior Fellow of The Andrew Fuller Center for Baptist Studies. In addition, Dustin is the author of several books, writes regularly for Reformanda Ministries and Tabletalk, and serves as editor of Expositor magazine. Dustin and his wife Molli live in Porthcawl, Wales.NATE PICKOWICZ is the pastor of Harvest Bible Church in Gilmanton Iron Works, New Hampshire. He is the author of Reviving New England and Why We re Protestant. Additionally, he writes for TableTalk magazine and Reformanda Ministries, and serves as the editor of The American Puritans series. He and his wife, Jessica, and two children, Jack and Elizabeth.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Rick on July 21, 2020

The American Puritans are often more obscure than the English Puritans who get most of the press. In this book, Dustin Benge, and Nate Pickowicz recctify this situation by introducing 9 American Puritans in a series of mini-biographies that also doubles as a history of early New England. It's an ins......more

Goodreads review by ValeReads on July 07, 2020

I enjoyed most of the content. John Eliot was the surprise new historical-figure-crush for me. Always a special place in my heart for Bible translation, and his work among the Massachusett Indians was exemplary -- an inspiration and a model for any cross-cultural mission work. The book could have us......more

Goodreads review by Jana on October 14, 2023

I really enjoyed this! It’s a really great mix of American history, church history and theology. If you like the puritans and history, you will enjoy this book!......more

Goodreads review by Jenni on April 20, 2023

4.5 stars! This was an excellent and interesting introduction to a few of the American Puritans. I loved reading about the context of their lives in the New World around them, how their faith shaped and gave purpose to their determination to steward the colonies well, as well as their commitment to......more