Iain Murray is an author and Editorial Director of The Banner of Truth Trust. A graduate of the University of Durham, he entered pastoral ministry in 1955. He served as an assistant to Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones at Westminster Chapel (1956-59) and subsequently at Grove Chapel, London (1961-69) and St. Giles Presbyterian Church, Sydney, Australia, (1981-84). In 1957 he co-founded The Banner of Truth Trust, the company that has since published all of his books.
Best known as a biographer and a church historian, Murray has authored several profoundly important and influential books. Among those regarded as his most important are The Forgotten Spurgeon, Spurgeon v. Hyper-Calvinism, Revival and Revivalism and Evangelicalism Divided. Among his much-loved biographies are a definite two volume set dealing with D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones and a highly-regarded biography of Jonathan Edwards.
Murray has authored the following books:
- A Scottish Christian Heritage (2006)
- Old Evangelicalism – Old Truths for a New Awakening (2005)
- The Life of Arthur W. Pink (2004)
- Wesley and Men Who Followed (2003)
- Should the Psalter be the only hymnal of the church? (2001)
- The Unresolved Controversy : unity with non-Evangelicals (2001)
- Evangelicalism Divided : A Record of Crucial Change in the Years 1950 to 2000 (2000)
- Pentecost today? : The Biblical Basis for Understanding Revival (1998)
- Spurgeon v. Hyper-Calvinism : The Battle for Gospel Preaching (1995)
- D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones: Letters 1919-1981 (1994)
- Revival & Revivalism : The Making and Marring of American Evangelicalism 1750-1858 (1994)
- Letters Of Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1992)
- D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones : The Fight of Faith (1990)
- Australian Christian Life from 1788 : an introduction and an anthology (1988)
- Jonathan Edwards : A New Biography (1988)
- The Life of John Murray : Professor of Systematic Theology, Westminster Theological Seminary, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1937-1966 (1984)
- D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones : The First Forty Years (1982)
- Diary Of Kenneth MacRae : a record of fifty years in the Christian ministry (1980)
- The happy man : the abiding witness of Lachlan Mackenzie (1979)
- The Puritan Hope : Revival and the Interpretation of Prophecy (1971)
- The Forgotten Spurgeon (1966)
- Spurgeon and the Church of England (1966)
- The Reformation Of The Church : a collection of Reformed and Puritan documents on Church issues (1965) )
- The Invitation System (1960)
Though retired from pastoral ministry, Murray continues to write. Details of his current writing project are expected to be made public in the near future.
Murray is married to Jean Ann. Together they have five children and ten grandchildren.
