What does it mean to be “evangelical?” In Evangelical Heroes, Joel Beeke and Douglas Bond present thirty biographical sketches of faithful evangelical leaders from the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries. From George Whitfield to Charles Spurgeon to R.C. Sproul, these men and women held firm to the authority of Scripture and the reality of Christ's death and resurrection in the face of rising liberalism in the Church.

Contents

Volume 1 

Foreword   

Preface 

1. Anne Dutton (1692–1765)
2. Charles Wesley (1707–1788)
3. Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon (1707–1791)
4. Daniel Rowland (1711–1790)
5. George Whitefield (1714–1770)
6. Samuel Davies (1723–1761)
7. John Newton (1725–1807)
8. Lemuel Haynes (1753–1833)
9. Andrew Fuller (1754–1815)
10. Thomas Charles of Bala (1755–1814)
11. Archibald Alexander (1772–1851)
12. Mary Winslow (1774–1854)
13. Thomas Chalmers (1780–1847)
14. Charles Hodge (1797–1878)

Volume 2 

15. John Charles Ryle (1816–1900)
16. Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834–1892)
17. Mission Movement
18. William Carey (1761–1834)
19. David Livingstone (1813–1873)
20. James Hudson Tayler (1832–1905)
21. Amy Beatrice Carmichael (1867–1951)
22.  Abraham Kuyper (1837–1920)
23. Herman Bavinck (1854–1921
24. John Gresham Machen (1881–1937)
25. Corrie ten Boom (1892–1983)
26. John Murray (1898–1975)
27. Martyn Lloyd-Jones (1899–1981)
28. Wang Mingdao (1900–1991
29. Francis Schaeffer (1912–1984)
30. Jim (1927–1956) and Elisabeth (1926–2015) Elliot
31. R. C. Sproul (1939–2017)

Endorsement 

“Their assumption of heroism is rare in an age of cynicism. Joel Beeke and Doug Bond don’t dwell on weaknesses compulsively but see true heroism coming out of a close walk with the Lord.” 

-Russ Pulliam, Indianapolis Star 

“It is a joy, then, to introduce this two-volume set of evangelical heroes by Joel Beeke and Douglas Bond. Like the biblical heroes, these are flawed men and women. But like the men and women in Scripture, their lives are on record for us to see what is possible in the walk of faith and, like them, (to paraphrase the words of one of my heroes, William Carey) to ‘expect great things from God and to attempt great things for Him.’” 

—Michael A. G. Haykin, from the foreword 

About the Author

Joel R. Beeke is president and professor of systematic theology and homiletics at Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He also serves as a pastor of the Heritage Reformed Congregation in Grand Rapids.  

Douglas Bond is the author of more than thirty books. He is the director of the Oxford Creative Writing Master Class and the Carolina Creative Writing Master Class, has served as an adjunct instructor in church history and creative writing at three institutions of higher learning, and leads Church history tours in Europe.