Dennis C. Bustin – författare

Hanserd Knollys (1609-91) was a godly pastor/leader and prolific writer among the early Calvinistic Baptists of the seventeenth century. His life and ministry demonstrated a heart for the gospel of Jesus Christ. Despite imprisonment and persecution, he preached the gospel continuously and asked nonbelievers to "e;open the door"e; of their hearts to Christ. As for believers, he exhorted them to worship God "e;in spirit and truth,"e; live holy lives in both "e;the form and power of godliness,"e; and prepare and watch for the imminent second coming of Christ. As his friend Thomas Harrison said, "e;He was a Preacher out of the Pulpit as well as in it."e; It is hoped that this summary of his life and timeless message will spur believers to reach the world with the gospel.

Champions of Choice and Change examines the role of seventeenth-century English dissenting religious groups and the rise of democratic ideals in western society. Many people assume that the French philosophers whose ideas and writings gave rise to the Revolution in France were the creators and initiators of the democratic theories which would shape, order, and give direction to modern Western society as it developed. This work argues otherwise, claiming that such advances--ideas related to equality, choice, political involvement, education, enabling and inclusion of women, religious liberty/toleration--occurred first, not in the secular context of late eighteenth-century Enlightenment France, but in the spiritual context of radical and/or dissenting religious groups in Stuart England over a century earlier, shaped by previous ideas of the European Reformers.