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Hannah More · 1799 · Treatise
Hannah More's treatise emerges from her deep concern about the superficial education offered to upper-class women in late eighteenth-century England. Writing as an established playwright, educator, and religious reformer, More observed that…
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Charles Simeon · 1801 · Treatise
Charles Simeon's "Helps to Composition" emerged from his decades of experience training clergy at Cambridge University and his recognition that many ministers struggled to craft effective sermons. As one of the most…
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Rowland Hill · 1801 · Book
Village Dialogues emerged from Rowland Hill's decades of preaching to common people across England in the late eighteenth century. An Anglican clergyman who drew enormous crowds in fields, barns, and meeting houses,…
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Henry Martyn · 1805–1812 · Book
Henry Martyn's journals and letters, written between 1805 and 1812, chronicle the brief but extraordinary missionary career of a Cambridge-educated Anglican priest who served in India and Persia. Called to missionary service…
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William Wilberforce · 1807 · Letter
William Wilberforce penned this letter in 1807, the year Parliament finally passed the Slave Trade Act abolishing Britain's participation in the transatlantic slave trade. After two decades of parliamentary battles, failed bills,…
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Hannah More · 1808 · Book
Hannah More's novel follows Charles Coelebs, a young man of means seeking a wife who embodies both Christian virtue and educated refinement. Published in 1808 at the height of More's influence as…
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Henry Martyn · 1809–1812 · Treatise
Henry Martyn's Controversial Tracts emerged from his pioneering missionary work in India and Persia between 1809 and 1812. As one of the first Anglican missionaries to engage seriously with Islamic theology, Martyn…
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William Romaine · 1809 · Letter
These letters, collected and published posthumously, preserve the pastoral correspondence of William Romaine, one of the leading evangelical voices within the Church of England during the eighteenth century. Romaine served for decades…
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Henry Martyn · 1810 · Other
Henry Martyn's Hindustani New Testament stands as one of the earliest complete translations of the Christian scriptures into a major South Asian vernacular language. Arriving in India as a chaplain with the…
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Rowland Hill · 1810–1820 · Book
The second volume of Rowland Hill's Village Dialogues continues the popular Anglican clergyman's distinctive approach to Christian apologetics through dramatic conversations between village characters. Writing during the early decades of the nineteenth…
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Thomas Scott · 1810 · Treatise
Thomas Scott's treatise emerged from the theological controversies of early nineteenth-century England, where Enlightenment rationalism and emerging biblical criticism challenged traditional understandings of Scripture's divine authority. As rector of Aston Sandford and…
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Henry Martyn · 1811 · Other
Henry Martyn's Arabic translation of the New Testament represents one of the earliest Protestant attempts to render the Christian scriptures into modern Arabic. Completed in 1811 during his missionary work in Persia,…
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Hannah More · 1811 · Book
Hannah More's Practical Piety emerged from her conviction that the evangelical revival of her era needed grounding in daily Christian living. Writing in 1811 as a prominent lay Anglican and moral reformer,…
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Henry Martyn · 1812 · Other
Henry Martyn's Persian New Testament emerged from his missionary work in India and Persia during the early nineteenth century. Sent to India as a chaplain with the East India Company in 1806,…
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Hannah More · 1813 · Book
Hannah More's Christian Morals emerged from her position as one of Britain's most influential evangelical writers during the height of the abolition movement and social reform campaigns of the early nineteenth century.…
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Charles Simeon · 1819–1821 · Commentary
Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae emerged from his fifty-four years as vicar of Holy Trinity Church, Cambridge, where he preached systematically through Scripture while mentoring generations of evangelical Anglican clergy. Published in twenty-one…
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William Wilberforce · 1823 · Treatise
Wilberforce's final major antislavery treatise emerged from his recognition that the gradual amelioration approach had failed utterly in the decades following Britain's abolition of the slave trade in 1807. Written when he…
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Anonymous · 1827 · Poem
The Christian Year is a collection of devotional poems arranged to follow the liturgical calendar of the Anglican Church, first published anonymously in 1827. The work emerged from the Oxford Movement's emphasis…
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Charles Simeon · 1832–1833 · Commentary
Charles Simeon's Expository Outlines on the Whole Bible emerged from his fifty-four years of weekly sermon preparation at Holy Trinity Church, Cambridge, where he preached systematically through Scripture from 1782 until his…
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Charles Simeon · 1832–1836 · Sermon
Charles Simeon's Sermon Outlines represents the culmination of a lifetime devoted to biblical exposition and pastoral instruction. Published in the 1830s as Horae Homileticae, this massive collection of 2,536 sermon outlines emerged…
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Rodulphus Dickinson · 1833 · Scripture
The Dickinson New Testament is a distinct nineteenth-century American attempt at rendering the New Testament into a more literary English. Covering the New Testament in full, it was translated from Greek and…
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Granville Penn · 1836 · Scripture
A scholarly nineteenth-century rendering of the New Testament, translated from Greek and based on the Greek New Testament, this work reflects the early modern development of textual criticism, when comparison of manuscripts…
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Selina Hastings · 1840 · Book
This biography chronicles the remarkable life of Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon (1707-1791), one of the most influential women in eighteenth-century evangelical Christianity. Written in the immediate aftermath of her death, when…
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Irenaeus of Lyons · 1841 · Book
This 1841 volume belongs to the patristic revival that ran through the Oxford Movement, when English churchmen turned to the ante-Nicene fathers to ground their claims about apostolic succession, the rule of…
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