Griesel's research makes clear: the Church of England was at the end of the 17th and the beginning of the 18th century multicolored, and the reformed belief did not occupy a marginal position. This has its consequences for our vision of the 18th century 'evangelical revival': the reformed ideas in it were still emphatically present in the state church.
Jake Griesel is Lecturer in Church History and Anglican Studies at George Whitefield College, Cape Town, and Research Associate in the Faculty of Theology at North-West University, South Africa.