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| Founded | 1930 |
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| Founders | Samuel G. Craig, J. Gresham Machen, and James Schrader |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Headquarters location | Phillipsburg, New Jersey |
| Publication types | Books and eBooks—Mobi, ePub |
| Imprints | P&R Publishing, Presbyterian and Reformed Publishing Co. |
| Official website | www.prpbooks.com |
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P&R Publishing is an evangelical, Reformed, Christian publishing company located in Phillipsburg, New Jersey. P&R’s mission is “to serve Christ and his church by producing clear, engaging, fresh, and insightful applications of Reformed theology to life”[1]—“books that promote biblical understanding and godly living as summarized in the Westminster Confession of Faith and Catechisms.”[2]
History
In 1930, Samuel G. Craig, J. Gresham Machen, and James Schrader founded Presbyterian and Reformed Publishing Co. P&R’s initial publication was a 24-page monthly periodical called Christianity Today (“A Presbyterian Journal Devoted to Stating, Defending and Furthering the Gospel in the Modern World”).[3] The periodical, which featured articles on Christianity and theology, book reviews, sermons, news in the Presbyterian church, and letters to the editor, was published intermittently until 1949. Its name was later adopted, with P&R’s permission,[4] by the evangelical periodical Christianity Today, which Billy Graham founded in 1956.
The first two books that P&R published were Oswald T. Allis’s The Five Books of Moses (1943) and his Prophecy and the Church (1945). Allis, who taught in the Department of Semitic Philology at Princeton Theological Seminary from 1910–29 and who served as editor of the Princeton Theological Review from 1918 to 1929, along with Machen, Robert Dick Wilson, and others, founded Westminster Theological Seminary in 1929.[5] Allis’s books helped to set the standard and direction for P&R’s subsequent publications.
In 1957, Charles H. Craig, Samuel’s son, took over Presbyterian and Reformed’s operations, running it out of his home in Nutley, New Jersey, and using an off-site building for shipping.[6] In 1978, the company moved to its current location in Phillipsburg. In 1982, Bryce H. Craig, Charles’s son and a graduate of Westminster Theological Seminary, became president.[7] “Presbyterian and Reformed Publishing Co.” was abbreviated to “P&R Publishing” in 1992.
P&R’s approximately 700 titles range from academic works that advance biblical and theological scholarship to popular books designed to help lay readers grow in Christian thought and service.
Seminal Authors
- Cornelius Van Til.,[8][9]
- Most notable idea: Transcendental Argument.
- Most notable books: Publications.
- External link: www.vantil.info.
- Jay E. Adams.,[10][11]
- Most notable idea: Nouthetic Counseling.
- Most notable books: Publications.
- External link: The Institute for Nouthetic Studies.
- John M. Frame.[12]
- Most notable idea: Multiperspectivalism.
- Most notable books: Publications
- External links: Frame-Poythress.org—the writings of Frame and Vern Poythress.
Landmark Books
- The Five Books of Moses (1943), Oswald T. Allis.,[13][14]
- Prophecy and the Church (1943), Oswald T. Allis.
- The Genesis Flood (1961), John C. Whitcomb & Henry M. Morris.[15]
- Competent to Counsel (1970), Jay E. Adams.[16]
- The Symbol (1973), R.C. Sproul.
- The Doctrine of God (2002), John M. Frame. ECPA Gold Medallion Book Award Winner, 2003.[17]
- The Holy Trinity (2004), Robert Letham. ECPA Gold Medallion Book Award Winner, 2005.[18]
- Thy Word Is Still Truth (2013), Peter A. Lillback & Richard B. Gaffin Jr., eds.
- Systematic Theology (2013), John M. Frame. WORLD magazine 2014 Books of the Year Winner.[19]
Partner Theological Organizations
- African Bible University
- Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals
- Christian Counseling & Educational Foundation (CCEF)
- Covenant Theological Seminary
- Redeemer Seminary
- Reformed Theological Seminary
- Westminster Seminary California
- Westminster Theological Seminary (Philadelphia)
- Malawi Seminary
Partner Book Ministries
- Action International Ministries (AIM)
- Africa Christian Textbooks (ACTS)
- Prison Book Program
- Prison Fellowship
- Theological Book Network (TBN)
References
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- ^ "About P&R Publishing. "http://www.prpbooks.com/about-us. Retrieved 2015-05-08.
- ^ "About P&R Publishing."
- ^ "Christianity Today." http://www.pcahistory.org/HCLibrary/periodicals/CT/v01.html. Retrieved 2015-05-08. "Posts Tagged ‘Christianity Today [1930-1949].’" https://continuing.wordpress.com/tag/christianity-today-1930-1949/. Retrieved 2015-05-08.
- ^ "Posts Tagged ‘Christianity Today [1930-1949].’" https://continuing.wordpress.com/tag/christianity-today-1930-1949/. Retrieved 2015-05-08.
- ^ " Oswald Thompson Allis." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oswald_Thompson_Allis. Retrieved 2015-05-08.
- ^ "About P&R Publishing." http://www.prpbooks.com/about-us. Retrieved 2015-05-08.
- ^ "About P&R Publishing."
- ^ "Transcendental argument became a staple of the writings of the idealist school that followed Kant, and from there it made its way into Christian apologetics. James Orr (1844–1913) employed it. But the twentieth-century apologist who placed the most weight on the transcendental argument (which he sometimes called reasoning by presupposition) was Cornelius Van Til (1895–1987)." John M. Frame, “Transcendental Arguments,” in W. C. Campbell-Jack and Gavin J. McGrath, eds., New Dictionary of Christian Apologetics, consulting ed. C. Stephen Evans (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2006), 716–17.
- ^ "Van Til is perhaps best known for the development of a fresh approach to the task of defending the Christian faith. Although trained in traditional methods he drew on the insights of fellow Calvinistic philosophers Vollenhoven and Herman Dooyeweerd to formulate what he viewed as a more consistently Christian methodology. His apologetic focused on the role of presuppositions, the point of contact between believers and unbelievers, and the antithesis between Christian and non-Christian worldviews." http://www.theopedia.com/Cornelius_Van_Til. Retrieved 2015-05-13.
- ^ "Jay E. Adams is a conservative Presbyterian known for his pioneering efforts in biblical counseling as set forth in his 1970 book Competent to Counsel?." http://www.theopedia.com/Jay_E_Adams. Retrieved 2015-05-13.
- ^ "In 1970 Jay Adams, a Presbyterian minister, launched an anti-psychiatry movement among American, conservative Protestants. Partly inspired by O. H. Mowrer and Thomas Szasz, Adams made a three-fold claim. First, modern psychological theories were bad theology, misinterpreting functional problems in living. Second, psychotherapeutic professions were a false pastorate, interlopers on tasks that properly belonged to pastors. Third, the Bible, as interpreted by Reformed Protestants, taught pastors the matters necessary to counsel competently. Adams's 'nouthetic counseling' rapidly developed the institutional forms that typically signal a profession." David A. Powlison. Competent to Counsel?: The History of a Conservative Protestant Anti-Psychiatry Movement. Resources for Changing Lives, 1996. (From University of Pennsylvania Ph.D. thesis of same name). http://www.scribd.com/doc/72496365/Competent-to-Counsel-David-Powlison#scribd. Retrieved 2015-05-13.
- ^ "In Frame’s first book, The Doctrine of the Knowledge of God (1987), he elaborates his Christian epistemology, which he calls triperspectivalism, and argues that in order to appreciate the richness of attaining true knowledge, a person must understand that knowledge always involves the integration of three perspectives: the normative, situational, and existential. His triperspectivalism has made a profound impact on church leaders today, including his practical application of Christ’s offices as Prophet (normative), Priest (existential), and King (situational) to all of life and ministry. Frame’s passion to see the lordship of the triune God in every sphere of thought and life is contagious. And this needed contagion is now spreading to multitudes of Christians and church leaders at a critical time." http://www.stevechilders.org/framing-john-frame-part-1/. Retrieved 2015-05-13.
- ^ "This is perhaps the most scholarly defense of the Mosaic authorship of the Pentateuch, in its present form, which has appeared in English for several decades." W. F. Albright, Journal of Biblical Literature Vol. 62, No. 4 (December 1943): 357.
- ^ "Oswald T. Allis in his 1943 The Five Books of Moses wrote a powerful refutation of both the documentary and development hypothesis and entered a strong plea for acceptance of the Mosaic authorship of the first five books of the Old Testament." Edward J. Young, An Introduction to the Old Testament (Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, 1984), 148.
- ^ "The ideas in The Genesis Flood made it a best seller that retains its importance for fundamentalist Christians." Robert Arp, 1001 Ideas That Changed the Way We Think (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2013), 786.
- ^ See references 10 and 11 above.
- ^ "2003 Gold Medallion Book Award Winners." http://christianbookexpo.com/christianbookawards/gm2003.php. Retrieved 2015-05-09.
- ^ "2005 Gold Medallion Book Award Winners." http://christianbookexpo.com/christianbookawards/cba2005.php. Retrieved 2015-05-09.
- ^ "Books of the Year: In the Spotlight." http://www.worldmag.com/2014/06/books_of_the_year/page4. Retrieved 2015-05-09.
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