Meet the Puritans (2nd edition)

If your impression of the Puritans comes from grim portraits, high collars, and joyless sermons, Meet the Puritans will surprise you in the best way. Behind those caricatures lies a warm, Christ-centered spiritual tradition shaped by people who loved Scripture, treasured grace, and sought to glorify God in every part of life.

The Puritans took life seriously—because they took God seriously. Grace and guilt, love and sacrifice, heaven and hell weren’t abstractions to them; they were urgent realities. Today, when conviction of sin is dismissed as gloom, when earnest faith is pitied, and when diligent obedience is labeled as legalism, we desperately need their witness.

This New Edition Includes:

• 45 New Biographies for a total of 190 English and American Puritans, seventeenth-century Scottish Presbyterians, and Dutch Further Reformation divines.
• 278 New Summaries of Puritan works, with annotated bibliographies of modern reprints.
• Comprehensive Revision of the entire previous edition.
• 200 New Titles Added to the select bibliography of secondary sources.
• New, Expanded Glossary plus an updated, expanded list of Puritan publishers.