Iain Murray (author)

{{Short description|British pastor and author (born 1931)}}
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'''Iain Hamish Murray''' (born 19 April 1931) is a British pastor and author who co-founded the Reformed publishing house, the [[Banner of Truth Trust]].

==Early life==
Iain Murray was born on 19 April 1931.<ref name=Ninety>{{cite web |title=Iain Murray: Ninety Today |url=https://www.presbyterianseminary.org.uk/post/iain-murray-ninety-today |publisher=Westminster Presbyterian Theological Seminary |access-date=19 April 2021 |date=19 April 2021}}</ref> He was educated in the [[Isle of Man]] at [[King William's College]]. Murray was converted in 1949.<ref name=Ninety />

In the summer of 1950 he was commissioned in the [[Cameronians (Scottish Rifles)]]<ref name=MonergBio>{{cite web|title= Iain Murray |accessdate= 2017-09-06 |type= biography |website= Monergism.com |publisher= Christian Publication Resource Foundation |location= [[Portland, Oregon]] |url= https://www.monergism.com/thethreshold/articles/bio/iainmurray.html}}</ref><ref>{{London Gazette |issue=39063 |date=10 November 1950 |page=5611 |supp=y}}</ref> [[rifle regiment]] of the British Army, serving in Singapore and Malaya in the suppression of the communist insurgency known as the "[[Malayan Emergency]]". He transferred to the Army reserve in 1955<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=40527 |date=1 July 1955 |page=3864 |supp=y}}</ref> and resigned his commission the following year.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=40807 |date=15 June 1956 |page=3575 |supp=y}}</ref>

After his military service, Murray studied Philosophy and History at the [[Durham University|University of Durham]], graduating with a [[Bachelor of Arts|BA]] in 1954.<ref>{{cite journal |title=Supplement |journal=University of Durham Gazette |date=16 August 1954 |volume=1 (New Series) |page=23 |url=http://reed.dur.ac.uk/xtf/view?docId=bookreader/DU_Gazettes/DUGazetteNS01/DUGazNS01METSfile.xml#page/104/mode/2up |access-date=17 December 2020}}</ref> In 1955 he married Jean Ann Walters and became assistant minister at St. John's Free Church, Summertown, Oxford.<ref>{{cite web|last= Johnson |first= Larry G. |title= Ecumenicalism – The Evangelical Church's misguided group hug – Part I |date= 2017-02-17 |accessdate= 2017-09-06 |website= CultureWarrior.net |location= [[Owasso, Oklahoma]] |url= http://www.culturewarrior.net/2017/02/17/ecumenicalism-the-evangelical-churchs-misguided-group-hug-part-i/}}</ref><ref name=BannerBio>{{cite web|title= Iain H. Murray |accessdate= 2017-09-06 |type= biography |website= Banner of Truth |publisher= [[Banner of Truth Trust]] |url= https://banneroftruth.org/us/about/banner-authors/iain-h-murray/}}</ref>

==Christian work==
Murray served as assistant to [[Martyn Lloyd-Jones]] at [[Westminster Chapel]]<ref name="TGeorge">{{cite book|editor-last= George |editor-first= Timothy |editor-link= Timothy George |title= J. I. Packer and the Evangelical Future: The Impact of His Life and Thought |date= 2009-10-01 |series= Beeson Divinity Studies |publisher= [[Baker Publishing Group|Baker Academic]] |isbn= 9780801033872 |page= 124 |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=OqtzBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA124}}</ref> (1956–59) and subsequently at Grove Chapel, [[London]] (1961–69) and St. Giles Presbyterian Church, [[Sydney]], [[Australia]], (1981–84). In 1957 he and Jack Cullum founded the Reformed publishing house, the [[Banner of Truth Trust]],<ref name="SJStein">{{cite book |last=Stein |first=Stephen J. |title=The Cambridge Companion to Jonathan Edwards |year=2007 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |page=230}}</ref> for which he remains a trustee.

Murray and his wife live in [[Edinburgh]], [[Scotland]].

== Theological positions ==
According to certain sources Murray's theological positions are:<ref name=MonergBio/>

*[[Calvinism#Five Points of Calvinism|5-point Calvinist]]
*[[Infant baptism|Paedobaptist]] (advocates infant baptism)
*[[Post-millennialism|Post-millennial]]<ref>{{cite book |last1=Gribben |first1=Crawford |title=Survival and Resistance in Evangelical America: Christian Reconstruction in the Pacific Northwest |date=2021 |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |page=45 |isbn=978-0-19-937022-1 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Q78cEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA45 |access-date=29 October 2022}}</ref>
*[[Covenant theology]]

== Works ==
Books by Iain Murray include:
* ''Australian Christian Life from 1788 : an introduction and an anthology'', (1988), {{ISBN|0-85151-524-X}}
* ''[[Martyn Lloyd-Jones|D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones]] : The First Forty Years'', (1982), {{ISBN|0-85151-353-0}}
* ''[[Martyn Lloyd-Jones|D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones]] : The Fight of Faith'', (1990), {{ISBN|0-85151-564-9}}
* ''The Forgotten [[Charles Spurgeon|Spurgeon]]'', (1966), {{ISBN|0-85151-156-2}}
* ''[[Charles Spurgeon|Spurgeon]] and the Church of England'', (1966) – a booklet
* ''[[Jonathan Edwards (theologian)|Jonathan Edwards]] : A New Biography'', (1988), {{ISBN|0-85151-494-4}}
* ''The Life of [[Arthur Pink|Arthur W. Pink]]'', {{ISBN|0-85151-883-4}}
* ''The Life of [[John Murray (theologian)|John Murray]] : Professor of Systematic Theology, Westminster Theological Seminary, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1937–1966'', (1984), {{ISBN|0-85151-422-7}}, {{ISBN|0-85151-426-X}}
* ''The Puritan Hope : Revival and the Interpretation of Prophecy'', (1971, London: Banner of Truth Trust), {{ISBN|0-85151-247-X}} (pbk)
* ''Revival & Revivalism : The Making and Marring of American Evangelicalism 1750–1858'', (1994), {{ISBN|0-85151-660-2}}
* ''Spurgeon v. Hyper-Calvinism : The Battle for Gospel Preaching'', (1995, London: Banner of Truth Trust), {{ISBN|0-85151-692-0}} (pbk)
* ''Pentecost today? : The Biblical Basis for Understanding Revival'', (1998), {{ISBN|0-85151-752-8}}
* ''Evangelicalism Divided : A Record of Crucial Change in the Years 1950 to 2000'', (2000), {{ISBN|0-85151-783-8}}
* ''Diary of Kenneth MacRae : a record of fifty years in the Christian ministry'', (1980), {{ISBN|0-85151-297-6}}
* ''The Invitation System'', (1960), {{ISBN|0-85151-171-6}}
* ''Letters of [[Charles Spurgeon|Charles Haddon Spurgeon]] '', (1992), {{ISBN|0-85151-606-8}}
* ''Should the Psalter be the only hymnal of the church?'', (2001), {{ISBN|0-85151-809-5}}
* ''The Reformation of the Church : a collection of Reformed and Puritan documents on Church issues'', (1965), {{ISBN|0-85151-118-X}} (pbk)
* ''The Unresolved Controversy : unity with non-Evangelicals'', (2001), {{ISBN|0-85151-810-9}} (pbk)
* ''[[John Wesley|Wesley]] and Men Who Followed'', {{ISBN|0-85151-835-4}}
* ''Old Evangelicalism – Old Truths for a New Awakening'', {{ISBN|0-85151-901-6}}
* ''The Happy Man: The Abiding Witness of [[Lachlan Mackenzie]]'', (1979), {{ISBN|0-85151-282-8}}
* ''A Scottish Christian Heritage'', (2006), {{ISBN|0-85151-930-X}}
* ''[[Martyn Lloyd-Jones|Lloyd-Jones]]: Messenger of Grace'', (2008), {{ISBN|0-85151-975-X}}
* ''Heroes'', (2009), {{ISBN|978-1-84871-024-5}}
* ''The Undercover Revolution: how fiction changed Britain'', (2009), {{ISBN|978-1-84871-012-2}}
* ''Rest in God: a calamity in contemporary Christianity'', (2010), {{ISBN|978-1-84871-081-8}} (booklet)
* ''[[John F. MacArthur|John MacArthur]]: Servant of the Word and Flock'', (2011), {{ISBN|978-1-84871-112-9}}
* ''[[Archibald G. Brown]]: Spurgeon's Successor'', (2011), {{ISBN|978-1-84871-139-6}}
* ''Evangelical Holiness and other addresses'', (2013), {{ISBN|978-1-84871-319-2}} 
* ''[[Amy Carmichael]]: Beauty for Ashes'', (2015), {{ISBN|978-1-84871-552-3}}
* ''[[J. C. Ryle]]: Prepared to Stand Alone'', (2016), {{ISBN|978-1-84871-679-7}}

== References ==
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== External links ==
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*{{cite web|title= Iain H. Murray |accessdate= 2017-09-06 |type= biography |website= Banner of Truth |publisher= [[Banner of Truth Trust]] |url= https://banneroftruth.org/us/about/banner-authors/iain-h-murray/}}
*{{cite web|title= Iain Murray |accessdate= 2017-09-06 |type= biography |website= Monergism.com |publisher= Christian Publication Resource Foundation |location= [[Portland, Oregon]] |url= https://www.monergism.com/thethreshold/articles/bio/iainmurray.html}}
*{{cite web|title= All articles by Iain H. Murray in Evangelical Times |accessdate= 2017-09-06 |website= Evangelical Times |url= https://www.evangelical-times.org/articles/author-posts/?author=Iain%20H.%20Murray}}
*[http://www.banneroftruth.org/ The Banner of Truth Trust] – "Biblical Christianity through Literature"
*[http://andynaselli.com/theology/review-of-iain-murrays-evangelicalism-divided Dr. Andrew David Naselli's review of Iain Murray's ''Evangelicalism Divided'' followed by a lengthy annotated bibliography]
*{{cite web|title= A Revival of Calvinism: An Interview with Iain Murray |date= 2011-08-01 |accessdate= 2017-09-06 |website= [[Ligonier Ministries]] |url= http://www.ligonier.org/learn/articles/revival-calvinism-interview-iain-murray/}}

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