Church History
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When John Stott’s voice echoed around the crypt of St Pauls
John Stott No one dreamt of demonstrating outside St Paul's cathedral when, on 21 December 1945, John Stott’s family made their way up Ludgate Hill to see him...
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Inside Story: ´best biography he has read´
In ´Evangelicals Now´ for February 2010, Baptist Minister Rick Battenfield wrote this of Roger´s ´Inside Story´: In reading this biography of John Stott the reader will find that the title of the book is eminently appropriate. One does feel like...
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Inside Story: The Life of John Stott
"A young boy perched on a church balcony, dropping paper pellets into the hats of the ladies beneath him, grows into the greatest Anglican of the last 100 years - with warmth, perception and sympathy, Roger Steer describes the lifelong journey of...
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‘Inside Story should be compulsory reading in theological colleges’
Mark Thompson, Head of Theology at Moore College in Sydney, has written: 'It is universally acknowledged that evangelicalism worldwide owes an enormous debt to God for the life and ministry of John Stott. His influence is genuinely immense. His...
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Benedictine and Presbyterian: a shared delight
Friday 16 September 2011 I am just leaving for a meeting of Christian writers at Buckfast Abbey. Since time immemorial, deer have been drawn to graze in the sheltered meadows which line the banks of the river Dart in this...
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Stott on fundamentalist, liberal, evangelical
Friday 29 July 2011 In his debate with the distinguished liberal thinker, David Edwards, John Stott developed a little parable. It used flight as a picture of freedom and sought to characterise (but not he hoped caricature) the essential difference between...
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Guarding the Holy Fire
Baker, Grand Rapids, USA, May 1999 From Wycliffe and Tyndale, Cranmer and the prayer book, Latimer and Ridley, Hooker and Herbert, Whitefield and Wesley, Newton and Simeon in England - Devereaux Jarrett and Alexander Griswold, Philander Chase and Charles...
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Guarding the Holy Fire
Bishop FitzSimons Allison of Georgetown, South Carolina, wrote: 'This excellent history of the evangelical tradition of Anglicanism should go a long way in dispelling the enormous ignorance that characterises much of our American church. Roger Steer has a wonderful feel...
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Church on Fire
Hodder and Stoughton, May 1998 The Story of Anglican Evangelicals. A major survey of the Anglican church on both sides of the Atlantic. Roger Steer charts the contribution Evangelicals have made to the Anglican story and captures the zeal, commitment...
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Hudson Taylor: Lessons in Discipleship
Nigel Lee, UCCF head of Student Ministries in the United Kingdom said that Roger's second book on Hudson Taylor, Lessons in Discipleship, was 'riveting and full of hope'.
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