Product Description

this particular book is now out of print. Please see ISBN 9781848710115. This is a reprint of Forotten Spurgeon with all of the same content but the price is now $16.00

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #231403 in Books
• Published on: 2009-02-01
• Binding: Paperback
• 269 pages

Customer Reviews

Spurgeon as he really was
This is easily my favorite biography of Spurgeon. Iain Murray covers the passion and beauty of Spurgeon's preaching which is so marvelous to read. He has a way of lifting you up and shaking you around, providing amazing illustrations, and then sending you off with encouragement.

But this aspect of Spurgeon's preaching is what everybody talks about. What nobody talks about, the Forgotten Spurgeon, is his passion for not only preaching, but also for doctrine. This book highlights Spurgeon's battles with Arminians, Hyper-Calvinists, baptismal regenerationists, and modernists. Spurgeon was a devoted Calvinist, and this book shows how centrally Spurgeon viewed Calvinism to his preaching. It was so important to him that he would fight tooth and nail over it, not giving in until confident of doctrinal purity. Spurgeon's doctrine is the forgotten Spurgeon. And this biography is noteworthy for pointing that out.

Recommended reading for learning more about Spurgeon, as well as for learning more about the doctrines of grace.

Comprehensive biography on Spurgeon and his polemics.
This volumn will make the sincere Christian's heart burn within them. I read this book early in my Christian life and it helped me greatly in understanding the value of developing strong convictions on scriptural doctrines. I have personally given out about one dozen copies of this fine book as gifts to encourage others in their growth in grace. Ian Murray does a fine job in showing Spurgeon, ever valiant for the truth, graciously opposing error in Christ's church and preaching Christ and biblical truth in a more faithful and powerful way than perhaps any other has in the history of the English language. Other than Holy Scripture, I can do no better than to recommend Spurgeon for your reading. This book deals in particular with controversies and doctrinal errors within the British Baptist Union, and the greater professing Evangelical church of the day. Spurgeon displays his love for God and his people by defending His Word, and exhorting His people to believe and obey it. This is perhaps my favorite Spurgeon biography and I heartily recommend it.

Murray Sheds Light On Spurgeon
Iain Murray's "The Forgotten Spurgeon" sheds light on the great nineteenth century English preacher Charles Haddon Spurgeon. Having heard Spurgeon called "the prince of preachers" for most of my life, I was surprised to learn that he was a Calvinist. Murray's book helped me to realize that Spurgeon was a great preacher not merely because of his prodigious memory or his natural eloquence, but because of his strong convictions regard the gracious nature of salvation. I would recommend this book for all people, and particularly Baptists, who are struggling with the doctrines of election and predestination.