Evangelicalism in modern Britain : a history from the 1730s to the 1980s / D.W. Bebbington.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bebbington, David, 1949-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Evangelicalism--Great Britain--History.

Evangelicalism.

Great Britain--Church history.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (377 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; Boston : Unwin Hyman, 1989.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This major textbook is a newly researched historical study of Evangelical religion in its British cultural setting from its inception in the time of John Wesley to charismatic renewal today. The Church of England, the Church of Scotland and the variety of Nonconformist denominations and sects in England, Scotland and Wales are discussed, but the book concentrates on the broad patterns of change affecting all the churches. It shows the great impact of the Evangelical movement on nineteenth-century Britain, accounts for its resurgence since the Second World War and argues that development

Contents:

Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Preface; [1]: Preaching the Gospel: The Nature of Evangelical Religion; Evangelical Characteristics; Conversionism; Activism; Biblicism; Crucicentrism; The Background; [2]: Knowledge of the Lord: The Early Evangelical Movement; Varieties of Evangelicalism; Continuity with the Past; Discontinuity with the Reformed Tradition; The Doctrine of Assurance; The Influence of the Enlightenment; Resistance to Enlightenment; Enlightenment Assumptions; Optimism; Moderate Calvinism; Pragmatism; Literature; Humanitarianism; Politics; The Rise of Evangelicalism

[3]: A Troubling of the Water: Developments in the Early Nineteenth Century The Strategy of Mission; The Revival of Calvinism; Edward Irving; The Influence of Romanticism; Millenarianism; The Advent Hope; Varieties of Premillennialism; The Inspiration of Scripture; Biblical Literalism; Towards Fundamentalism; Supernatural Intervention; Doctrinal Reformulation; High Churchmanship; Church and Dissent; A Defensive Posture; Anti-Catholicism; An Outlook of Pessimism; [4]: The Growth of the Word: Evangelicals and Society in the Nineteenth Century; The 1851 Religious Census; Social Class

Non-ChurchgoingRevivalism; Methods of Evangelism; Philanthropy; Education; Social Pressures; Attractions of Churchgoing; A Style of Living; Pressure for Reform; Intellectual Achievement; The Decay of Evangelical Ascendancy; Theological Change; The Impact of High Churchmanship; The Evangelical Century; [5]: Holiness unto the Lord: Keswick and its Context in the Later Nineteenth Century; The Methodist Holiness Tradition; Quaker Spirituality; Brethren Teaching; The Mildmay Circle; The Revivalist Background; The American Influence; The Cultural Context; A Romantic Movement

Overcoming the Calvinist Critique Remodeling the Methodist Tradition; Affinities of Holiness; The British Holiness Movement; [6]: Walking Apart: Conservative and Liberal Evangelicals in the Early Twentieth Century; The Rise of Biblical Criticism; Opposition to Biblical Criticism; Verbal Inspiration and Inerrancy; The Christian Hope; Heightened Spirituality; Broadening Theology; Rising Churchmanship; Science and Religion; The Use of Leisure; The Social Gospel; The Great Reversal; Fundamentalist Controversies; Moderation; The Anatomy of Conservative Evangelicalism; The Interwar Divergence

[7]: The Spirit Poured Out: Springs of the Charismatic Movement Charismatic Origins; The Rise of Cultural Modernism; The Oxford Group; Self-Expression; Community and Lifestyle; Organisation and Authority; The Charismatic Style; Insight and Experience; Community and Creativity; Structure and Authority; Support for the Charismatic Movement; Charismatics and Evangelicals; [8]: Into a Broad Place: Evangelical Resurgence in the Later Twentieth Century; The Range of Evangelical Opinion; Liberals and Centrists; A Climate of Seriousness; The Ecumenical Movement; Conservative Evangelical Strengths

The Realm of Scholarship

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-134-84766-1

1-138-17116-6

0-203-35990-9

9786610071906

1-134-84767-X

1-280-07190-7

9780203359907

OCLC:

264466674