Strangers and Pilgrims on the Earth: Remembering the Mayflower Pilgrims, 1620–2020
As in other histories, the history of Christianity has certain key turning-points after which the flow of historical events is profoundly transformed. Some of these moments of transition—well expressed by the Greek term kairos—are immediately pellucid to the student of church history: the Constantinian Revolution, the rise of the heresy of Islam, the Reformation, the Great Awakening. While not as immediately obvious as these turning-points, the sailing for America in 1620 of those whom historians have called the Pilgrims needs to be reckoned as a key event in the story of both the American nation and American Christianity. To be sure, there are some today who dispute its central role in the founding of America, yet generations of historians have accorded it a key place in that story, and it is in line with this older interpretation that this book of essays has been written. The various essays in this anniversary volume remember the manifold details of this historic voyage in an attempt to inform and even inspire the modern Christian as he or she seeks to be a faithful pilgrim to that heavenly country that was ever in the mind of the men and women whom these essays recall.
Publisher: H & E publishing
Type: Paperback
ISBN: 9781989174630
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Michael A G Haykin serves as Professor of Church History and Biblical Spirituality at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky. He is also the director of The Andrew Fuller Center for Baptist Studies. He has written and edited numerous books. He is married to Alison and they have two children, Victoria and Nigel. Roy M. Paul is executive research assistant at the Canadian office of the Andrew Fuller Center for Baptist Studies. John Clements was born in 1948, son of an Anglican clergyman and became a Christian in early teens. He was trained in counseling and life coaching after which John set up a private practice. He is a published author of a few books
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‘Strangers and Pilgrims is indeed a fitting contribution to the thoughtful celebration of the Pilgrims’ daring voyage and experiment. The essays comprising this volume are lucidly written, explicating in-depth important aspects of the Pilgrims’ theology, spirituality, and daily life, all of which shaped the settlement of Plymouth, which in many ways served as the cradle of America. The volume is suitable for students, laypeople, pastors, as well as scholars. Strangers and Pilgrims serves as a helpful gateway into the Pilgrims as they understood themselves. It is an achievement that will aid considerably in reacquainting American Christians with this vital, but misunderstood aspect of our spiritual and national heritage.’ Andre A. Gazal, Montana Bible College (see https://www.booksataglance.com/book-reviews/)