Some Biographies

[Tom Hart]

If anyone has any recommendations, I would appreciate help choosing biographies on

1. John Wycliffe
2. Jan Hus
3. John Amos Comenius
4. Jonathan Edwards
5. William Farel
6. Ulrich Zwingli

 

[OPC'n]

I only know #'s 1,4,6. I would go with #6.

 

[Tom Hart]

I mean I need biographies on all of the above.

 

[Guido's Brother]

George Marsden has two biographies of Jonathan Edwards, one quite significantly larger than the other. Both are worthwhile.

On Hus, Matthew Spinka, John Hus: A Biography (Westport: Greenwood Press, 1968)

On Wycliffe, G. R. Evans, John Wyclif: Myth and Reality (Downers Grove: IVP Academic, 2005)

On Zwingli, Huldrych Zwingli: His Life and Work (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1986)

On Farel, it's not a biography as such, but has biographical information: Jason Zuidema and Theodore Van Raalte, Early French Reform (Farnham: Ashgate, 2011).

 

[Stephen L Smith]

On Jonathan Edwards, both George Marsden's and Iain Murray's biographies are excellent and in fact go nicely together.

 

[Darryl Le Roux]

^ I have Lain Murray's. Yet to read it, but I have also seen it on James White's bookshelf.

 

[py3ak]

Frances Bevan, The Life of William Farel is very nice.

 

[reaganmarsh]

On Jonathan Edwards, both George Marsden's and Iain Murray's biographies are excellent and in fact go nicely together.

Another vote for Murray's bio of Edwards here. I'd like to pick up Marsden's one of these days.

I've not yet read any bios of the other men you list.

 

[Tom Hart]

Thank you all for the recommendations.

Would anyone happen to know anything about a biography of Farel by Melchior Kirchhofer? It's called A Life of William Farel. It's available on Kindle, and I'm wondering if it's a worth buying.

 

[Ajay]

I found

https://www.monergism.com/thethreshold/sdg/John%20Wycliffe.pdf

http://lollardsociety.org/pdfs/Wilson_WycliffePatriotReformer.pdf


http://www.digitalbookindex.org/_search/search010hstenglandwycliffea.asp

URL="http://www.sounddoctrine.net/Classic_Sermons/Biography_John_Hus.pdf"]http://www.sounddoctrine.net/Classic_Sermons/Biography_John_Hus.pdf[/URL]

http://lollardsociety.org/pdfs/Schaff_John_Huss.pdf

http://www.sermonaudio.com/sermoninfo.asp?SID=52203224442

 

[alexandermsmith]

Edwards- Iain Murray for me too. Just read it a month ago a truly wonderful and spiritually sweet read.

Farel- William Farel by Frances Bevan, published by Tentmaker Publications here in the UK. Haven't read it but if it's published by them it's gonna be pretty sound. https://www.tentmaker.org.uk/product/biographies/true-stories-of-god-s-servants-william-farel/