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P&R Publishing
SUPPLIER FOCUS BOOK FEATURE Dave Almack, Director of Sales & Marketing, tells the story

of one of the USA’s long-standing publishers.

In the nearly one hundred years since its founding, in the Church by Oswald T. Allis, another founder
Reformed publishing house P&R Publishing
to produce many academic works by authors
has been closely associated with three notable
connected with the seminary, most notably the
conservative Christian movements-supporting of WTS. The publishing company would go on
their founders as it published and promoted great twentieth-century Reformed theologian and
groundbreaking books faithful to the philosopher Cornelius Van Til.
Westminster Standards.
Samuel Craig’s son, Charles H. Craig, took over
In 1930, at the height of the American operations in 1957, assisted by his son Bryce H.
fundamentalist/modernist controversy, Samuel Craig. A former teacher and administrator, Charles
G. Craig, formerly a minister in the Presbyterian had worked for the American Red Cross during
Church (USA) and a friend of Reformed theologian World War II. He operated the publishing company Charles Craig
B. B. Warfield, was forced to end his five-year out of his home in Nutley, New Jersey, and used a
term as editor-in-chief of The Presbyterian. The small building off-site for shipping.
denominational paper dismissed Craig after he When Charles Craig published John C. Whitcomb
threw his support behind J. Gresham Machen, and Henry M. Morris’s Genesis Flood in 1961,
a vocal critic of modernism and the founder of the book captured the attention of many
Westminster Theological Seminary (WTS).
conservative Christians at a crucial cultural
Together, Craig and Machen founded the moment. It sold hundreds of thousands of copies
Presbyterian and Reformed Publishing Company and energised and propelled the young-earth
in May 1930 and began publishing a conservative movement that continues to this day. Under his Samuel Craig Bryce Craig
Presbyterian journal that they called Christianity tenure, Presbyterian and Reformed also became
Today. The renowned evangelist Billy Graham later closely associated with the fledgling biblical
acquired the name in 1956 for his own magazine. counselling movement through its publication of its association with the Christian Counseling
pioneering works by the movement’s founder, Jay and Education Foundation (CCEF). It published
In 1943, nearly a decade after its founding, Adams: Competent to Counsel and The Christian the first works of prominent CCEF counsellors
Presbyterian and Reformed published its first two Counselor’s Manual. Wayne Mack, David Powlison, Ed Welch, Paul
books: The Five Books of Moses and Prophecy Tripp, Darby Strickland and others. In 2018, P&R
In 1978, the Presbyterian and Reformed partnered with the Biblical Counseling Coalition
Publishing Company moved its headquarters to produce an extensive series of month-long 31-
to Harmony Township, New Jersey. Four Day Devotionals for Life. This innovative series
years later, Bryce Craig became president. uses a devotional format to focus on situations or
struggles that are common in counselling.
Known as P&R Publishing since 1992, the
publishing house continued its connection As the publishing house grew under Bryce Craig,
to the biblical counselling movement by P&R continued to take on significant projects
and theological works that are widely used by
seminaries and churches. These include the
works of John Frame and his Lordship series
and the highly acclaimed Reformed Expository
Commentary Series. Well-known Reformed
evangelical leaders such as R.C. Sproul and
James Montgomery Boice have published books
with P&R, and their works continue to be made
available for a new generation.
In its dedication to publishing excellent books
that promote biblical understanding and godly
living, P&R has been on the forefront of notable
movements to support biblical instruction and
the mission of the church. Titles on its list range
from academic works that advance biblical and
theological scholarship to popular books that are
designed to help lay readers grow in Christian
thought and service. After more than ninety years
of publishing, our mission is still the same: to
serve Christ and His church by producing clear,
Christianity Today engaging, fresh, and insightful applications of
Reformed theology to life.
The Five Books of Moses
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