He previously served as Wesley Harrison Chair and Professor of New Testament at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas, as Academic Acquisitions Editor for B&H Publishing Group in Nashville, Tennessee, and also as Professor of New Testament and Greek at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Kansas City, Missouri.
[5] Professor Michael D. McMullen stated that "We have relatively few extant records from the early life of Baptists in Scotland, and Wilder’s carefully presented collection of Grant’s writings makes a very valuable contribution to the little that is available.
"[5] From the foreword by Scottish professor Donald Meek "Peter Grant, the poet, is thus well known, but Peter Grant, the preacher, is a relatively obscure figure, although his skills as an expositor have been remembered in Gaelic tradition, and his ability as a descriptive writer in English can be gauged from his reports to the Baptist Home Missionary Society.
So far, however, we have not been privileged to sample the preaching style that proclaimed the Word of God, in both Gaelic and English, in the pulpit of Grantownon-Spey, and drew audiences from miles around.
In this book, we are given a splendid opportunity to experience something of Peter Grant, the preacher, by means of his surviving sermons in English.