The Oxford Handbook of Early Evangelicalism

ISBN-13: 9780190863319 / Angielski

Edited by Jonathan Yeager (Leroy A. Mart

Opis

Evangelicalism, a worldwide interdenominational movement within Protestant Christianity, is one of the most popular and diverse religious movements in the world today. Evangelicals maintain the belief that the essence of the Gospel consists of the doctrine of salvation by grace, through faith in Jesus' atonement. Evangelicals can be found on every continent and among nearly all Christian denominations. The origin of this group of people has been traced to the turn of the eighteenth century, with roots in the Puritan and Pietist movements in England and Germany. The earliest evangelicals could be found among Anglicans, Baptists, Congregationalists, Methodists, Moravians, and Presbyterians throughout North America, Britain, and Western Europe, and included some of the foremost names of the age, such as Jonathan Edwards, John Wesley, and George Whitefield. Early evangelicals were abolitionists, historians, hymn writers, missionaries, philanthropists, poets, preachers, and theologians. They participated in the major cultural and intellectual currents of the day, and founded institutions of higher education not limited to Dartmouth College, Brown University, and Princeton University. The Oxford Handbook of Early Evangelicalism provides the most authoritative and comprehensive overview of the significant figures and religious communities associated with early evangelicalism within the contextual and cultural environment of the long eighteenth century, with essays written by the world's leading experts in the field of eighteenth-century studies.

Recenzje

This present volume summarises current scholarship on this crucial eighteenth-century movement whilst providing new perspectives and suggesting potential future lines of enquiry. It is an excellent addition to the burgeoning literature on the roots and essential nature of evangelicalism and is highly recommended.

O autorze

Jonathan Yeager is the Leroy A. Martin Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. He is the author of Enlightened Evangelicalism: The Life and Thought of John Erskine, Early Evangelicalism: A Reader, and Jonathan Edwards and Transatlantic Print Culture.