The Advent of Evangelicalism Exploring Historical Continuities

by Haykin, Michael A. G.; Stewart, Kenneth J.; George, Timothy

• ISBN13: 9780805448603
• ISBN10: 0805448608
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-11-01
• Publisher: B&H Academic

Summary

David Bebbington's 1989 book,Evangelicalism in Modern Britain: A History from the 1730s to the 1980s, put forth the idea that evangelical religion is the result of transatlantic revival in the 1730s, and that it took a working together attitude toward the Enlightenment rather than a contradictory one. Today, Bebbington's thesis has gained international acceptance, and scholars from Europe and North America present a review of its primary arguments and conclusions here inThe Advent of Evangelicalism. Contributors include: David W. Bebbington, Joel R. Beeke, John Coffey, Timothy George, Crawford Gribben, Michael A. G. Haykin, Paul Helm, D. Bruce Hindmarsh, David Ceri Jones, Thomas S. Kidd, Timothy Larsen, Cameron A. MacKenzie, A. T. B. McGowan, D. Densil Morgan, Ashley Null, Ian J. Shaw, Kenneth J. Stewart, Douglas A. Sweeney, Garry J. Williams, and Brandon G. Withrow.

Author Biography

Michael A. G. Haykin is professor of Church History and Biblical Spirituality at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky.

Kenneth J. Stewart is professor of Theological Studies at Covenant College in Lookout Mountain, Georgia.

Table of Contents

Contributors	p. 11
Foreword	p. 13
Editors' preface	p. 17
Introduction
The reception given Evangelicalism in Modern Britain since its publication in 1989	p. 21
Evangelicalism and the Enlightenment: a reassessment	p. 37
Regional Perspectives
Evangelicalism in Scotland from Knox to Cunningham	p. 63
Continuity, novelty and evangelicalism in Wales, c. 1640-1850	p. 84
Calvinistic Methodism and the origins of evangelicalism in England	p. 103
'Prayer for a saving issue': evangelical development in New England before the Great Awakening	p. 129
Evangelicalism and the Dutch Further Reformation	p. 146
Era Perspectives
The evangelical character of Martin Luther's faith	p. 171
Calvin, A. M. Toplady and the Bebbington thesis	p. 199
Thomas Cranmer and Tudor evangelicalism	p. 221
Puritanism, evangelicalism and the evangelical Protestant tradition	p. 252
Jonathan Edwards: continuator or pioneer of evangelical history?	p. 278
The Evangelical Revival through the eyes of the 'Evangelical Century': nineteenth-century perceptions of the origins of evangelicalism	p. 302
Evangelical Doctrines
The antecedents of evangelical conversion narrative: spiritual autobiography and the Christian tradition	p. 327
Enlightenment epistemology and eighteenth-century evangelical doctrines of assurance	p. 345
Evangelical eschatology and 'the Puritan hope'	p. 375
The evangelical doctrine of Scripture, 1650-1850: a re-examination of David Bebbington's theory	p. 394
Response
Response	p. 417
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