FORTHCOMING TITLE, ETA DECEMBER 2025
James Ussher was a highly prolific titan of publication in the seventeenth century, and his writings earned the esteem of many in the Reformed churches. Still, a mountain of his unpublished manuscripts remains in the archives, ripe for investigation and full of just as much insight as his published works. This volume collects three of Ussher’s most significant unpublished manuscripts, each covering the major topics of theology. With introduction and explanatory apparatus by Harrison Perkins, these documents are available for the first time in print and in translation, shedding fresh light on Ussher’s contribution to the Reformed tradition.
350 pages.
“James Ussher was a seventeenth-century theological titan whose theological writing was passed around the Westminster assembly during its many long meetings. Even though Ussher was a royalist, the Westminster divines had great respect for Ussher’s work. Harrison Perkins has therefore done the church a great service by mining the archives of Oxford University to present a fresh translation of some of Ussher’s lost but now found works. Not only do these manuscripts provide readers with a window into theology of one of the seventeenth-century’s greatest theological minds, but they also rest in a cradle of Perkins’s expert editorial energies that provide context, commentary, and clarity for the reader. Anyone who loves classic Reformed theology will want to read, study, and ruminate upon this old but nevertheless new treasure.”
J.V. Fesko - Harriett Barbour Professor of Systematic and Historical Theology at Reformed Theological Seminary, Jackson, Mississippi
On the Nature and Kingdom of God: The Theological Manuscripts of James Ussher is in the following collections:
