Authors
The people behind the books
Tinkers and scholars, country ministers and city preachers. Some wrote in prison, some through plague and fire. Here is who they were.
John Calvin
1509–1564 · Geneva, Switzerland
The French reformer of Geneva and one of the most influential writers of the Reformation.
William Perkins
1558–1602 · Cambridge, England
The Cambridge preacher often called the father of the Puritans.
William Gouge
1575–1653 · Blackfriars, London
A Blackfriars pastor for forty-five years who wrote the book on family life.
Richard Sibbes
1577–1635 · Cambridge and London, England
The gentle preacher his hearers called “the heavenly Doctor.”
Thomas Brooks
1608–1680 · London, England
A London pastor who stayed with his people through plague and fire.
John Owen
1616–1683 · Oxford and London, England
Oxford scholar, chaplain to Cromwell, and a doctor of the soul.
Thomas Watson
c. 1620–1686 · London, England
Rector of St Stephen's, Walbrook, and a nonconformist preacher after 1662.
John Bunyan
1628–1688 · Bedford, England
A Bedford tinker and preacher, author of The Pilgrim's Progress.
Benjamin Keach
1640–1704 · Southwark, London
Baptist pastor in Southwark and a signer of the 1689 Confession.
Thomas Boston
1676–1732 · Ettrick, Scotland
Minister of Ettrick in the Scottish Borders.
The Particular Baptists
1677–1689 · London, England
The London Baptist churches behind the 1689 Confession of Faith.
Anonymous
c. 1700 · England
Books whose writers chose to stay unnamed.
Jonathan Edwards
1703–1758 · Northampton, Massachusetts
Colonial America's great preacher and thinker of the Great Awakening.
Charles Spurgeon
1834–1892 · London, England
The Victorian preacher who drew thousands to the Metropolitan Tabernacle every Sunday.
