Keys to Christian Knowledge
A KEY TO THE KNOWLEDGE AND USE OF THE HOLY BIBLE. By the Rev. J. H. Blunt, M.A. Small 8vo. 2s. 6d.
“Another of Mr. Blunt’s useful and workmanlike compilations, which will be most acceptable as a household book, or in schools and colleges. It is a capital book too for schoolmasters and pupil teachers.”—Literary Churchman.
“As a popular handbook, setting forth a selection of facts of which everybody ought to be cognizant, and as an exposition of the claims of the Bible to be received as of superhuman origin, Mr. Blunt’s ‘Key’ will be useful.”—Churchman.
“A great deal of useful information is comprised in these pages, and the book will no doubt be extensively circulated in Church families.”—Clerical Journal.
“We have much pleasure in recommending a capital handbook by the learned editor of ‘The Annotated Book of Common Prayer.’”—Church Times.
“Merits commendation for the lucid and orderly arrangement in which it presents a considerable amount of valuable and interesting matter.”—Record.
A KEY TO THE KNOWLEDGE AND USE OF THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER. By the Rev. J. H. Blunt, M.A. Small 8vo. 2s. 6d.
“A very valuable and practical manual, full of information, which is admirably calculated to instruct and interest those for whom it was evidently specially intended—the laity of the Church of England. It deserves high commendation.”—Churchman.
“A thoroughly sound and valuable manual.”—Church Times.
“To us it appears that Mr. Blunt has succeeded very well. All necessary information seems to be included, and the arrangement is excellent.”—Literary Churchman.
“It is the best short explanation of our offices that we know of, and would be invaluable for the use of candidates for confirmation in the higher classes.”—John Bull.
A KEY TO CHRISTIAN DOCTRINE AND PRACTICE FOUNDED ON THE CHURCH CATECHISM. By the Rev. John Henry Blunt, M.A. Small 8vo. 2s. 6d.
“Of cheap and reliable text-books of this nature there has hitherto been a great want. We are often asked to recommend books for use in Church Sunday-schools, and we therefore take this opportunity of saying that we know of none more likely to be of service both to teachers and scholars than these ‘Keys.’”—Churchman’s Shilling Magazine.
“This is another of Mr. Blunt’s most useful manuals, with all the precision of a school book, yet diverging into matters of practical application so freely as to make it most serviceable, either as a teacher’s suggestion book, or as an intelligent pupil’s reading book.”—Literary Churchman.
“Will be very useful for the higher classes in Sunday-schools, or rather for the fuller instruction of the Sunday-school teachers themselves, where the parish priest is wise enough to devote a certain time regularly to their preparation for their voluntary task.”—Union Review.
“Another of the many useful books on theological and Scriptural subjects which have been written by the Rev. John Henry Blunt. The present is entitled ‘A Key to Christian Doctrine and Practice, founded on the Church Catechism,’ and will take its place as an elementary text-book upon the Creed in our schools and colleges. The Church Catechism is clearly and fully explained by the author in this ‘Key’. Numerous references, Scriptural and otherwise, are scattered about the book.”—Public Opinion.
A KEY TO THE KNOWLEDGE OF CHURCH HISTORY. (Ancient.) Edited by John Henry Blunt, M.A. Small 8vo. 2s. 6d.
“It offers a short and condensed account of the origin, growth, and condition of the Church in all parts of the world, from A.D. 1 down to the end of the fifteenth century. Mr. Blunt’s first object has been conciseness, and this has been admirably carried out, and to students of Church history this feature will readily recommend itself. As an elementary work ‘A Key’ will be specially valuable, inasmuch as it points out certain definite lines of thought, by which those who enjoy the opportunity may be guided in reading the statements of more elaborate histories. At the same time it is but fair to Mr. Blunt to remark that, for general readers, the little volume contains everything that could be consistently expected in a volume of its character. There are many notes, theological, scriptural, and historical, and the ‘get up’ of the book is specially commendable. As a text-book for the higher forms of schools the work will be acceptable to numerous teachers.”—Public Opinion.
“It contains some concise notes on Church History, compressed into a small compass, and we think it is likely to be useful as a book of reference.”—John Bull.
“A very terse and reliable collection of the main facts and incidents connected with Church History.”—Rock.
“It will be excellent, either for school or home use, either as a reading or as a reference book, on all the main facts and names and controversies of the first fifteen centuries. It is both well arranged and well written.”—Literary Churchman.
A KEY TO THE KNOWLEDGE OF CHURCH HISTORY (Modern). Edited by the Rev. John Henry Blunt, M.A. Small 8vo. 2s. 6d.
A KEY TO THE NARRATIVE OF THE FOUR GOSPELS. By John Pilkington Norris, M.A., Canon of Bristol, formerly one of Her Majesty’s Inspectors of Schools. Small 8vo. 2s. 6d.
“This is very much the best book of its kind we have seen. The only fault is its shortness, which prevents its going into the details which would support and illustrate its statements, and which in the process of illustrating them would fix them upon the minds and memories of its readers. It is, however, a great improvement upon any book of its kind we know. It bears all the marks of being the condensed work of a real scholar, and of a divine too. The bulk of the book is taken up with a ‘Life of Christ’ compiled from the Four Gospels so as to exhibit its steps and stages and salient points. The rest of the book consists of independent chapters on special points.”—Literary Churchman.
“This book is no ordinary compendium, no mere ‘cram-book’; still less is it an ordinary reading book for schools; but the schoolmaster, the Sunday-school teacher and the seeker after a comprehensive knowledge of Divine truth will find it worthy of its name. Canon Norris writes simply, reverently, without great display of learning, giving the result of much careful study in a short compass, and adorning the subject by the tenderness and honesty with which he treats it.... We hope that this little book will have a very wide circulation and that it will be studied; and we can promise that those who take it up will not readily put it down again.”—Record.
“This is a golden little volume. Having often to criticise unsparingly volumes published by Messrs. Rivington, and bearing the deep High Church brand, it is the greater satisfaction to be able to commend this book so emphatically. Its design is exceedingly modest. Canon Norris writes primarily to help ‘younger students’ in studying the Gospels. But this unpretending volume is one which all students may study with advantage. It is an admirable manual for those who take Bible Classes through the Gospels. Closely sifted in style, so that all is clear and weighty; full of unostentatious learning, and pregnant with suggestion; deeply reverent in spirit, and altogether Evangelical in spirit; Canon Norris’ book supplies a real want, and ought to be welcomed by all earnest and devout students of the Holy Gospels.”—London Quarterly Review.
A KEY TO THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES. By John Pilkington Norris, M.A. Small 8vo. 2s. 6d.
“It is a remarkably well-written and interesting account of its subject, ‘The Book of the Acts,’ giving us the narrative of St. Luke with exactly what we want in the way of connecting links and illustrations. One most notable and praiseworthy characteristic of the book is its candour.... The book is one which we can heartily recommend.”—Spectator.
“Of Canon Norris’s ‘Key to the Narrative of the Four Gospels,’ we wrote in high approval not many months ago. The present is not less carefully prepared, and is full of the unostentatious results of sound learning and patient thought.”—London Quarterly Review.
“This little volume is one of a series of ‘Keys’ of a more or less educational character, which are in the course of publication by Messrs. Rivington. It gives apparently a very fair and tolerably exhaustive résumé of the contexts of the Acts, with which it deals, not chapter by chapter, but consecutively in the order of thought.”—School Board Chronicle.
“Few books have ever given us more unmixed pleasure than this. It is faultlessly written, so that it reads as pleasantly and enticingly as if it had not the least intention of being an ‘educational’ book. It is complete and exhaustive, so far as the narrative and all its bearings go, so that students may feel that they need not be hunting up other books to supply the lacunæ. It is the work of a classical scholar, and it leaves nothing wanting in the way of classical illustrations, which in the case of the Acts are of special importance. And, lastly, it is theologically sound.”—Literary Churchman.
“This is a sequel to Canon Norris’s ‘Key to the Gospels,’ which was published two years ago, and which has become a general favourite with those who wish to grasp the leading features of the life and word of Christ. The sketch of the Acts of the Apostles is done in the same style; there is the same reverent spirit and quiet enthusiasm running through it, and the same instinct for seizing the leading points in the narrative.”—Record.
⁂ Other Volumes are in preparation.