The life of D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones, 1899-1981 /
Murray, Iain Hamish, 1931-
The life of D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones, 1899-1981 / Iain H. Murray. - xii, 496 pages : black and white illustrations ; 22 cm.
Reprinted 2016. "This book is a recast, condensed and, in parts, re-written version of ... D. Martyn Lloyd Jones : the first forty years (1982) and The fight of faith (1990) ... The omissions have to do chiefly with his overseas visits, and with a shortening of quotations."--p. xi.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
A Welshman now! -- School days : Tregaron and London -- The world of medicine -- All things new -- The call to the ministry -- Bethan and Aberavon -- A different preaching -- Early days at Sandfields -- A leader without a party -- A local revival -- The church family -- Enlarged work -- Leaving Aberavon -- England and war -- Inside the family -- The emerging leader -- New agencies -- Westminster Chapel, 1943-45 -- Guidance confirmed -- Wales and the summer of 1949 -- A rising tide of youth -- Sundays in the 1950s -- Opposition -- An awakening of books -- Unity : ecumenical or evangelical? -- Crisis years -- Controversy -- The end of an era -- A world pulpit -- The 1970s -- Dying he worshipped.
This book is a re-cast, condensed and, in parts, re-written version of the author's two volumes D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones: The First Forty Years (I982) and The Fight of Faith (I990). Since those dates, the life of Dr Lloyd-Jones has been the subject of comment and assessment in many publications and these have been taken into account. The main purpose of this further biography, however, is to put Dr Lloyd-Jones' life before another generation in more accessible form. The big story is all here. When Lloyd-Jones left medicine, he intended only to be an evangelist in a mission hall in South Wales. No one was more surprised than he in being called to a ministry which would eventually affect churches across the world. How this happened is here explained, but the theme is the person described by F. F. Bruce: "a thoroughly humble man. He was a man of prayer, a powerful evangelist, an expository preacher of rare quality, in the fullest sense a servant of the Word of God." Behind that theme a greater one emerges. In Martyn Lloyd-Jones' own words: "My whole life experiences are proof of the sovereignty of God and his direct interference in the lives of men. I cannot help believing what I believe. I would be a madman to believe anything else -- the guiding hand of God! It is an astonishment to me." - Publisher.
9781848711808 (paperback)
Lloyd-Jones, David Martyn, 1899-1981.
Congregational churches--Clergy--Great Britain--Biography.
Clergy--Great Britain--Biography.
Christian biography.
The life of D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones, 1899-1981 / Iain H. Murray. - xii, 496 pages : black and white illustrations ; 22 cm.
Reprinted 2016. "This book is a recast, condensed and, in parts, re-written version of ... D. Martyn Lloyd Jones : the first forty years (1982) and The fight of faith (1990) ... The omissions have to do chiefly with his overseas visits, and with a shortening of quotations."--p. xi.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
A Welshman now! -- School days : Tregaron and London -- The world of medicine -- All things new -- The call to the ministry -- Bethan and Aberavon -- A different preaching -- Early days at Sandfields -- A leader without a party -- A local revival -- The church family -- Enlarged work -- Leaving Aberavon -- England and war -- Inside the family -- The emerging leader -- New agencies -- Westminster Chapel, 1943-45 -- Guidance confirmed -- Wales and the summer of 1949 -- A rising tide of youth -- Sundays in the 1950s -- Opposition -- An awakening of books -- Unity : ecumenical or evangelical? -- Crisis years -- Controversy -- The end of an era -- A world pulpit -- The 1970s -- Dying he worshipped.
This book is a re-cast, condensed and, in parts, re-written version of the author's two volumes D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones: The First Forty Years (I982) and The Fight of Faith (I990). Since those dates, the life of Dr Lloyd-Jones has been the subject of comment and assessment in many publications and these have been taken into account. The main purpose of this further biography, however, is to put Dr Lloyd-Jones' life before another generation in more accessible form. The big story is all here. When Lloyd-Jones left medicine, he intended only to be an evangelist in a mission hall in South Wales. No one was more surprised than he in being called to a ministry which would eventually affect churches across the world. How this happened is here explained, but the theme is the person described by F. F. Bruce: "a thoroughly humble man. He was a man of prayer, a powerful evangelist, an expository preacher of rare quality, in the fullest sense a servant of the Word of God." Behind that theme a greater one emerges. In Martyn Lloyd-Jones' own words: "My whole life experiences are proof of the sovereignty of God and his direct interference in the lives of men. I cannot help believing what I believe. I would be a madman to believe anything else -- the guiding hand of God! It is an astonishment to me." - Publisher.
9781848711808 (paperback)
Lloyd-Jones, David Martyn, 1899-1981.
Congregational churches--Clergy--Great Britain--Biography.
Clergy--Great Britain--Biography.
Christian biography.
