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...

Evangelicalism, an inter-denominational religious movement that has grown to become one of the most pervasive expressions of world Christianity in the early twenty-first century, had its origins in the religious revivals led by George Whitefield, John Wesley and Jonathan Edwards in the middle decades of the eighteenth century. With its stress on the Bible, the cross of Christ, conversion and the urgency of mission, it quickly spread throughout the Atlantic world and then became a global phenomenon. Over the past three decades evangelicalism has become the focus of considerable historical...