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The '''Banner of Truth Trust''' is an [[Evangelical]] and [[Calvinist|Reformed]] non-profit<ref name="AboutBTT">[http://banneroftruth.org/us/about/the-story-of-banner/ "The Story of The Banner of Truth"] by [[|Iain H. Murray|Iain H. Murray]].</ref> publishing house, structured as a charitable trust<ref>[http://www.charity-commission.gov.uk/ Charity Commission for England and Wales] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100402222408/http://www.charity-commission.gov.uk/ |date=2 April 2010 }} registered charity 235652.</ref> and founded in [[London]] in 1957<ref name="SJStein"/> by [[Iain Murray (author)|Iain Murray]], Sidney Norton and Jack Cullum.<ref name="AboutBTT" /> Its offices are now in [[Edinburgh]], Scotland with a key branch office and distribution point in [[Carlisle, Pennsylvania]].<ref name="AboutBTT"/> It positions itself within the [[Conservative evangelicalism in the United Kingdom|conservative evangelical]] wing of the church, and has been described as "an extremely powerful organization within British [[Nonconformist (Protestantism)|nonconformist]] evangelicalism."<ref name="TGeorge"/>

The trust has been connected with the revival of interest in [[evangelical]] [[Calvinism]] in 20th century England.<ref>{{cite book|last=Moes|first=Garry J.|title=Streams of Civilization: Cultures in Conflict Since The Reformation Until The Third Millennium After Christ, Volume 2|year=2003|publisher=Christian Liberty Press|page=396}}</ref> It has promoted Puritan theology<ref name="TGeorge">{{cite book|last=George|first=Timothy|author-link=Timothy George|title=J. I. Packer and the Evangelical Future: The Impact of His Life and Thought|year=2009|publisher=Baker|pages=1900, 1905}}</ref> and helped resurrect the ideas of [[Jonathan Edwards (theologian)|Jonathan Edwards]].<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><ref>{{cite book|last1=Hart|first1=Darryl G. |author-link1=D. G. Hart|last2=Lucas|first2=Sean Michael |title=The Legacy of Jonathan Edwards: American Religion and the Evangelical Tradition |year=2007 |publisher=Baker |page=21}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Lee|first=Sang Hyun |title=The Princeton Companion to Jonathan Edwards |year=2005 |publisher=Princeton University Press |page=305}}</ref> [[Alister McGrath]] refers to the "revival in [[Puritan]] spirituality that had been borne aloft on the wings of Banner of Truth's inexpensive paperbacks."