Overview

David Bebbington is well known for his characterization of the Evangelical movement in terms of the four leading emphases of Bible, cross, conversion, and activism. This quadrilateral was expounded in his classic 1989 book Evangelicalism in Modern Britain: A History from the 1730s to the 1980s. Bebbington developed many of the themes in that book in articles published from the 1980s to the present, but until now most of those articles have remained little known. The present collection of thirty-two essays makes readily available these important explorations of key aspects in the history of Evangelicalism. The Evangelical movement arose in the eighteenth century in Britain and America as a revitalization of Protestantism. Sharing much with the Puritans who preceded them, the Evangelicals nevertheless adopted a fresh stance by making revival rather than reformation their priority. Coming from diverse denominations, they formed a zealous united front. Over subsequent centuries they grew in number and carried their message throughout the world, giving rise to many of the churches in the global South that have come to the forefront in world Christianity. The essays in this work deal chiefly with Britain, though a few place the British movement in a world setting. Because Evangelicals on both sides of the Atlantic interacted, reading much of the same literature and visiting each other, there was a great deal of common ground between the British and American movements. Hence many of the topics covered here relate to developments mirrored in the American churches over the last three centuries. The two volumes of The Evangelical Quadrilateral address different aspects of the Evangelical movement. The first volume deals with issues in the movement as a whole, and the second volume examines features of particular denominational bodies within Evangelicalism. Each volume contains an introductory essay reviewing recent literature in the field, and then a series of related essays. Volume 1, Characterizing the British Gospel Movement, begins with an overview of the nature of the movement. The essays cover such representative areas as the affinity of early Evangelicalism with the Enlightenment, the impact of Americans Jonathan Edwards and Dwight L. Moody, the advent hope and the experience of conversion as key doctrines of Evangelicalism, the growth of academic historical studies of and by Evangelicals, Evangelical attitudes to science, and widespread trends in the movement and its shifting patterns of public worship in the twenty-first century. The first volume also provides detail on many of the main features that British Evangelicals displayed in common.

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Author:   David W. Bebbington
Publisher:   Baylor University Press
Imprint:   Baylor University Press
Weight:   0.333kg
ISBN:  

9781481314435

ISBN 10:   1481314432
Pages:   396
Publication Date:   30 July 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
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Table of Contents

Introduction: The Parameters of Evangelical Identity I The Character and Culture of Evangelicals 1 The Nature of Evangelical Identity 2 Revival and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century England 3 Gospel and Culture in British Evangelicalism 4 Evangelicalism and Cultural Diffusion II Evangelicals, Americans and the Wider World 5 The Legacy of Jonathan Edwards in Britain 6 Dwight L. Moody and Transatlantic Evangelicalism 7 Global Evangelicalism in the Nineteenth Century III Evangelicals, Doctrine and Experience 8 The Advent Hope in British Evangelicalism since 1800 9 Evangelical Conversion, c. 1740-c. 1850 10 Holiness in the Evangelical Tradition 11 The Deathbed Piety of Evangelical Nonconformists in the Nineteenth Century IV Evangelicals, History and Science 12 Calvin and British Evangelicalism in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries 13 The Evangelical Discovery of History 14 Science and Evangelical Theology in Britain from Wesley to Orr V Evangelicals into the Twenty-First Century 15 Evangelical Trends, 1959-2009 16 Evangelicals and Public Worship, 1965-2005

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Attractively produced in paperback (but also available in more expensive hardback), the essays benefit from a detailed index, while the introductions in each draw them together into a coherent body of work. For those who have been influenced by Bebbington's work and/or mentored by him as a supervisor/examiner, these essays will be important acquisitions. What they also do is amplify Bebbington's role in the recent renaissance of scholarly writing on Evangelicalism in Britain, a field that remains in rude health, in no small part as a result of the approach modelled so inspirationally in these two volumes. --David Ceri Jones Proceedings of the Wesley Historical Society In addition to the insights they shed on the 'characterization' of the evangelical current and the research of D. Bebbington, these two books, written with great clarity, will offer the reader a remarkable overview of the history of the movement. --Emmanuel Dumont Revue Istina

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David W. Bebbington is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Stirling.

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