Making Evangelical History: Faith, Scholarship and the Evangelical Past

ISBN-13: 9781472466280 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 296 str.

Andrew Atherstone; David Ceri Jones

Opis

With a fresh analysis of historians of evangelicalism from the eighteenth century to the present, this book makes a significant contribution to the 'history of ecclesiastical histories'. Including ministers and missionaries, and university scholars, from Anglican, Baptist, Congregationalist, Methodist, Presbyterian, Fundamentalist and Pentecostal denominations, the historians explored spread evangelicalism across the Americas, continental Europe, China, Africa, and the whole globe. Some of the historians and biographers examined wrote for a popular Christian readership, emphasising edification and evangelical hagiography; others have produced weighty monographs for the academy. The ways in which the historians' scholarly methods and theological agendas shaped their writings is explored. Contributors, including leading contemporary historians of evangelicalism shed light on the way the discipline has developed and on the heated controversies over whether one approach to evangelical history is more legitimate than the rest.

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Introduction: Towards a History of Evangelical Histories 1 John Gillies and the Evangelical Revivals 2 Erasmus Middleton’s Biographia Evangelica 3 Dissent and Religious Liberty in David Bogue and James Bennett’s History of Dissenters 4 J. C. Ryle and Evangelical Churchmanship 5 Luke Tyerman and the History of Early Methodism 6 Geraldine Guinness Taylor and the Histories of the China Inland Mission 7 G. R. Balleine and the Evangelical Party 8 Arnold Dallimore: Whitefield’s Champion 9 Iain H. Murray and the Rise and Fall of British Evangelicalism 10 Ogbu Kalu and African Pentecostalism 11 Timothy L. Smith, George Marsden, David Bebbington and Anglo-American Evangelicalism 12 Andrew Walls, Brian Stanley, Dana Robert, Mark Noll and Global Evangelicalism