The church has lost her memory. These books help recover it.
A century ago, any Southern Reformed pastor worth his salt kept Thornwell on the shelf alongside his Bible. Today, those same volumes moulder in estate sales and seminary attics — if they survive at all. The tradition that produced them has been forgotten not because it was wrong, but because no one bothered to keep it in print.
"The man who knows nothing of his theological fathers is a poor man, though he think himself rich."
— James Henley ThornwellJ & J Publications exists to change that. We are a small, deliberate press committed to reprinting the hard-to-find theological writings of the antebellum South — the sermons, treatises, tracts, and biographical sketches of men whose Reformed convictions ran deep and whose prose repays careful reading.
What you will find in our catalog
We do not publish everything. We publish what the church needs and cannot easily find — concentrated in a specific stream of Southern Reformed and Baptist witness.
- Old Southern Presbyterian sermons & collected works
- Antebellum Reformed Baptist tracts & confessional writings
- Biographical sketches of forgotten Southern divines
- 17th–19th century theological treatises
- Ecclesiology, covenant theology, & Reformed soteriology
- Works by Thornwell, Dabney, Girardeau, & their peers
Each title receives careful editorial attention: clean OCR correction, modernization notes where the archaic text needs a guiding hand, and a publisher's introduction that sets the author in his historical and theological situation — and answers plainly why you should read him today.
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A small press with a deliberate purpose
J & J Publications was founded by Joel, an author and publisher working in the tradition of the Old Southern Presbyterian and Baptist fathers. The press operates on the conviction that the best theological writing of the nineteenth-century South deserves a new generation of readers — and that those readers deserve editions worth keeping.
Every title is print-on-demand, produced to a standard that respects both the original text and the reader's time. Joel also is an author and writes shorter works in the same tradition, available alongside the reprint catalog.
The fathers spoke plainly. So do we.
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