The Puritans We Forgot (Jenny-Lyn de Klerk)

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🗓️ 13 February 2023

⏱️ 40 minutes

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In today's episode, Jenny-Lyn de Klerk shares about Puritan women and what we can learn today from these forgotten Puritans. While highlighting Lucy Hutchinson, Jenny-Lyn showcases how the stories we may not know are the ones we just might need for our lives today. Jenny-Lyn de Klerk works as an editor at Crossway and has multiple degrees in church history and historical theology, specializing in Puritan spirituality. She has also written articles for Themelios, the Midwestern Journal of Theology, and the Gospel Coalition and contributed to the Lexham Dictionary of Church History. Jenny-Lyn and her husband, JD, live and attend church in Tsawwassen, British Columbia. To learn more about Puritan women, check out Jenny-Lyn de Klerk's book 5 Puritan Women: Portraits of Faith and Love. Read the full transcript of this episode. If you enjoyed this episode be sure to leave us a review, which helps us spread the word about the show! Complete this survey for a free audiobook by Kevin DeYoung!

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0:00.0	In recent decades, the Puritans have experienced something of a renaissance among evangelicals.
0:08.9	Men like John Owen, John Bunyan, Richard Baxter, and Thomas Goodwin have been reintroduced to
0:14.4	large numbers of Christians, stimulating greater appreciation for church history, and deeper reflection
0:20.2	on neglected theological insights.
0:22.6	And yet, relatively little attention has been paid to Puritan women,
0:26.6	people like Agnes Beaumont, Lucy Hutchinson, Mary Rich, and Anne Bradstreet.
0:32.6	In our interview today, I'm talking with Jenny Lynn DeClerc about why it's worth exploring
0:37.6	the lives and theological reflections of some of these women and what they can teach us
0:42.8	about our faith today.
0:44.4	Jenny Lynn holds a PhD from Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, where she specialized
0:49.4	in Puritan spirituality.
0:51.1	She currently serves as an editor at Crossway and is the author of Five Puritan
0:55.5	Women, Portraits in Faith and Love, published by Crossway. Let's get started.
1:05.6	Jenny Lynn, thank you so much for joining me today on the Crossway podcast. Hi, yeah, thanks
1:10.5	for having me, Matt. So today we're
1:12.5	going to talk about the Puritans and Puritan women in particular. But before we jump into women
1:18.5	and their unique roles that they've had in the history of the church, I wanted to talk more generally
1:23.8	about the Puritans as a movement or a group of people in church history.
1:29.2	And probably no one has done more to help to revitalize the reputation of the Puritans
1:34.7	and advocate for their importance in the life of the church in the recent years than J.I. Packer,
1:41.2	who obviously passed away a few years back.
1:45.4	But even with that said,
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