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This book explores the life and spirituality of John Cennick
(1718-1755) and argues for a new appreciation of the contradictions
and complexities in early evangelicalism. It explores Cennick's
evangelistic work in Ireland, his relationship with Count
Zinzendorf and the creative tension between the Moravian and
Methodist elements of his participation in the eighteenth-century
revivals. The chapters draw on extensive unpublished correspondence
between Cennick and Zinzendorf, as well as Cennick's unique diary
of his first stay in the continental Moravian centres of
Marienborn, Herrnhaag and Lindheim. A maverick personality, John
Cennick is seen at the centre of some of the principal
controversies of the time. The trajectory of his emergence as a
prominent figure in the revivals is remarkable in its intensity and
hybridity and brings into focus a number of themes in the landscape
of early evangelicalism: the eclectic nature of its inspirations,
the religious enthusiasm nurtured in Anglican societies, the
expansion of the pool of preaching talent, the social tensions
unleashed by religious innovations, and the particular nature of
the Moravian contribution during the 1740s and 1750s. Offering a
major re-evaluation of Cennick's spirituality, the book will be of
interest to scholars of evangelical and church history.
2020 Christian Book Award (R) Winner (Bible Reference Works) This
textbook offers students a biblically rich, creedally structured,
ecumenically evangelical, and ethically engaged introduction to
Christian theology. Daniel Treier, coeditor of the popular
Evangelical Dictionary of Theology, discusses key Scripture
passages, explains Christian theology within the structure of the
Nicene Creed, explores the range of evangelical approaches to
contested doctrines, acquaints evangelicals with other views
(including Orthodox and Catholic), and integrates theological
ethics with chapters on the Ten Commandments and the Lord's Prayer.
The result is a meaty but manageable introduction to the
convictions and arguments shaping contemporary evangelical
theology.
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The question of the reality of Cathars and other heresies is
debated in this provocative collection. Cathars have long been
regarded as posing the most organised challenge to orthodox
Catholicism in the medieval West, even as a "counter-Church" to
orthodoxy in southern France and northern Italy. Their beliefs,
understood to be inspired by Balkan dualism, are often seen as the
most radical among medieval heresies. However, recent work has
fiercely challenged this paradigm, arguing instead that "Catharism"
is a construct, mis-named and mis-represented by generations of
scholars, and its supposedly radical views were a fantastical
projection of the fears of orthodox commentators. This volume
brings together a wide range of views from some of the most
distinguished internationalscholars in the field, in order to
address the debate directly while also opening up new areas for
research. Focussing on dualism and anti-materialist beliefs in
southern France, Italy and the Balkans, it considers a number of
crucial issues. These include: what constitutes popular belief; how
(and to what extent) societies of the past were based on the
persecution of dissidents; and whether heresy can be seen as an
invention of orthodoxy. At the same time, the essays shed new light
on some key aspects of the political, cultural, religious and
economic relationships between the Balkans and more western regions
of Europe in the Middle Ages. Antonio Sennis is Senior Lecturer in
Medieval History at University College London Contributors: John H.
Arnold, Peter Biller, Caterina Bruschi, David d'Avray, Joerg
Feuchter, Bernard Hamilton, R.I. Moore, Mark Gregory Pegg, Rebecca
Rist, Lucy J. Sackville, Antonio Sennis, Claire Taylor, Julien
Thery-Astruc, Yuri Stoyanov
Originally published in 1976, Working Class Radicalism in
Mid-Victorian England examines working-class radicalism in the
mid-Victorian period and suggests that after the fading of Chartist
militancy the radical tradition was preserved in a working-class
subculture that enabled working men to resist the full
consolidation of middle-class hegemony. The book traces the growth
of working-class radicalism as it developed dialectically in
confrontation with middle-class liberal ideology in the generation
after Waterloo. Intellectual forces were of central importance in
shaping the character of the working-class Left and the
Enlightenment, in particular, as the chief source of ideological
weapons that were turned against the established order. The
Enlightenment also provided the intellectual foundations of the
middle-class ideology that was directed against the incipient
threat of popular radicalism. The book notes that the same
intellectual forces that entered into the first half of the
nineteenth century also shaped the value system that provided the
foundations of mid-Victorian urban culture. These forces also
contributed to the rapprochement between working-class liberalism,
bringing latent affinities to the surface. It is also emphasised,
however, that inherited ideas and traditions exercised their
influence in interaction with the structure of power and status.
Balthasar Hubmaier remains one of the most significant figures in
the radical reformation of the sixteenth century. A Pledge of Love
is close and thorough examination of Hubmaiers view of the
sacraments within the context of worship. This ground-breaking work
examines the distinctive theology of this important Anabaptist and
his possible influence upon others.
This textbook not only provides a historical overview of Mexican
American religious traditions but also focuses on society today.
Making this a very comprehensive overview of the subject areas.
This is the first book to attempt to focus on this topic. Each
chapter includes a helpful pedagogy including a general overview,
case studies, suggestions for further reading, questions for
discussion, and a glossary. Making this the ideal textbook for
students approaching the topic for the first time. The use of case
studies and first person narratives provides a much needed 'lived
religion' approach to the subject area. Helping students to apply
their learning to the world around them.
This textbook not only provides a historical overview of Mexican
American religious traditions but also focuses on society today.
Making this a very comprehensive overview of the subject areas.
This is the first book to attempt to focus on this topic. Each
chapter includes a helpful pedagogy including a general overview,
case studies, suggestions for further reading, questions for
discussion, and a glossary. Making this the ideal textbook for
students approaching the topic for the first time. The use of case
studies and first person narratives provides a much needed 'lived
religion' approach to the subject area. Helping students to apply
their learning to the world around them.
When approaching the most public disagreement over predestination
in the eighteenth century, the 'Free Grace' controversy between
John Wesley and George Whitefield, the tendency can be to simply
review the event as a row over the same old issues. This assumption
pervades much of the scholarly literature that deals with early
Methodism. Moreover, much of that same literature addresses the
dispute from John Wesley's vantage point, often harbouring a bias
towards his Evangelical Arminianism. Yet the question must be
asked: was there more to the 'Free Grace' controversy than a simple
rehashing of old arguments? This book answers this complex question
by setting out the definitive account of the 'Free Grace'
controversy in first decade of the Evangelical Revival (1739-49).
Centred around the key players in the fracas, John Wesley and
George Whitefield, it is a close analysis of the way in which the
doctrine of predestination was instrumental in differentiating the
early Methodist societies from one another. It recounts the
controversy through the lens of doctrinal analysis and from two
distinct perspectives: the propositional content of a given
doctrine and how that doctrine exerts formative pressure upon the
assenting individual(s). What emerges from this study is a clearer
picture of the formative years of early Methodism and the vital
role that doctrinal pronouncement played in giving a shape to early
Methodist identity. It will, therefore, be of great interest to
scholars of Methodism, Evangelicalism, Theology and Church History.
It has long been accepted that when Samuel Taylor Coleridge
rejected the Unitarianism of his youth and returned to the Church
of England, he did so while accepting a general Christian
orthodoxy. Christopher Corbin clarifies Coleridge's religious
identity and argues that while Coleridge's Christian orthodoxy may
have been sui generis, it was closely aligned with moderate
Anglican Evangelicalism. Approaching religious identity as a kind
of culture that includes distinct forms of language and networks of
affiliation in addition to beliefs and practices, this book looks
for the distinguishable movements present in Coleridge's Britain to
more precisely locate his religious identity than can be done by
appeals to traditional denominational divisions. Coleridge's search
for unity led him to desire and synthesize the "warmth" of heart
religion (symbolized as Methodism) with the "light" of rationalism
(symbolized as Socinianism), and the evangelicalism in the Church
of England, being the most chastened of the movement, offered a
fitting place from which this union of warmth and light could
emerge. His religious identity not only included many of the
defining Anglican Evangelical beliefs, such as an emphasis on
original sin and the New Birth, but he also shared common polemical
opponents, appropriated evangelical literary genres, developed a
spirituality centered on the common evangelical emphases of prayer
and introspection, and joined Evangelicals in rejecting baptismal
regeneration. When placed in a chronological context, Coleridge's
form of Christian orthodoxy developed in conversation with Anglican
Evangelicals; moreover, this relationship with Anglican
Evangelicalism likely helped facilitate his return to the Church of
England. Corbin not only demonstrates the similarities between
Coleridge's relationship to a form of evangelicalism with which
most people have little familiarity, but also offers greater
insight into the complexities and tensions of religious identity in
late eighteenth and early nineteenth century Britain as a whole.
Christianity and the Alt-Right: Exploring the Relationship looks
back at the 2016 presidential election and the support President
Trump enjoyed among white Evangelicals. This cutting-edge volume
offers insights into the role of race and racism in shaping both
the Trump candidacy and presidency and the ways in which
xenophobia, racism, and religion intersect within the Alt-Right and
Evangelical cultures in the age of Trump. This book aims to examine
the specific role that Christianity plays within the Alt-Right
itself. Of special concern is the development of what is called
"pro-white Christianity" and an ethic of religious tolerance
between members of the Alt-Right who are Pagan or atheist and those
who are Christian, whilst also exploring the reaction from
Christian communities to the phenomenon of the Alt-Right. Looking
at the larger relationship between American Christians, especially
white Evangelicals, and the Alt-Right as well as the current
American political context, the place of Christianity within the
Alt-Right itself, and responses from Christian communities to the
Alt-Right, this is a must-read for those interested in religion in
America, religion and politics, evangelicalism, and religion and
race.
Christianity and the Alt-Right: Exploring the Relationship looks
back at the 2016 presidential election and the support President
Trump enjoyed among white Evangelicals. This cutting-edge volume
offers insights into the role of race and racism in shaping both
the Trump candidacy and presidency and the ways in which
xenophobia, racism, and religion intersect within the Alt-Right and
Evangelical cultures in the age of Trump. This book aims to examine
the specific role that Christianity plays within the Alt-Right
itself. Of special concern is the development of what is called
"pro-white Christianity" and an ethic of religious tolerance
between members of the Alt-Right who are Pagan or atheist and those
who are Christian, whilst also exploring the reaction from
Christian communities to the phenomenon of the Alt-Right. Looking
at the larger relationship between American Christians, especially
white Evangelicals, and the Alt-Right as well as the current
American political context, the place of Christianity within the
Alt-Right itself, and responses from Christian communities to the
Alt-Right, this is a must-read for those interested in religion in
America, religion and politics, evangelicalism, and religion and
race.
Exploring the response of evangelicals to the collapse of 'Greater
Christian Britain' in Australia in the long 1960s, this book
provides a new religious perspective to the end of empire and a
fresh national perspective to the end of Christendom. In the
turbulent 1960s, two foundations of the Western world rapidly and
unexpectedly collapsed. 'Christendom', marked by the dominance of
discursive Christianity in public culture, and 'Greater Britain',
the powerful sentimental and strategic union of Britain and its
settler societies, disappeared from the collective mental map with
startling speed. To illuminate these contemporaneous global shifts,
this book takes as a case study the response of Australian
evangelical Christian leaders to the cultural and religious crises
encountered between 1959 and 1979. Far from being a narrow national
study, this book places its case studies in the context of the
latest North American and European scholarship on secularisation,
imperialism and evangelicalism. Drawing on a wide range of archival
sources, it examines critical figures such as Billy Graham, Fred
Nile and Hans Mol, as well as issues of empire, counter-cultural
movements and racial and national identity. This study will be of
particular interest to any scholar of Evangelicalism in the
twentieth century. It will also be a useful resource for academics
looking into the wider impacts of the decline of Christianity and
the British Empire in Western civilisation.
Focusing on the interaction between teachers and scholars, this
book provides an intimate account of "ragged schools" that
challenges existing scholarship on evangelical child-saving
movements and Victorian philanthropy. With Lord Shaftesbury as
their figurehead, these institutions provided a free education to
impoverished children. The primary purpose of the schools, however,
was the salvation of children's souls. Using promotional literature
and local school documents, this book contrasts the public
portrayal of children and teachers with that found in practice. It
draws upon evidence from schools in Scotland and England, giving
insight into the achievements and challenges of individual
institutions. An intimate account is constructed using the journals
maintained by Martin Ware, the superintendent of a North London
school, alongside a cache of letters that children sent him. This
combination of personal and national perspectives adds nuance to
the narratives often imposed upon historic philanthropic movements.
Investigating how children responded to the evangelistic messages
and educational opportunities ragged schools offered, this book
will be of keen interest to historians of education, emigration,
religion, as well as of the nineteenth century more broadly.
Most Wesleyan-Holiness churches started in the US, developing out
of the Methodist roots of the nineteenth-century Holiness Movement.
The American origins of the Holiness movement have been charted in
some depth, but there is currently little detail on how it
developed outside of the US. This book seeks to redress this
imbalance by giving a history of North American Wesleyan-Holiness
churches in Australia, from their establishment in the years
following the Second World War, as well as of The Salvation Army,
which has nineteenth-century British origins. It traces the way
some of these churches moved from marginalised sects to established
denominations, while others remained small and isolated. Looking at
The Church of God (Anderson), The Church of God (Cleveland), The
Church of the Nazarene, The Salvation Army, and The Wesleyan
Methodist Church in Australia, the book argues two main points.
Firstly, it shows that rather than being American imperialism at
work, these religious expressions were a creative partnership
between like-minded evangelical Christians from two modern nations
sharing a general cultural similarity and set of religious
convictions. Secondly, it demonstrates that it was those churches
that showed the most willingness to be theologically flexible, even
dialling down some of their Wesleyan distinctiveness, that had the
most success. This is the first book to chart the fascinating
development of Holiness churches in Australia. As such, it will be
of keen interest to scholars of Wesleyans and Methodists, as well
as religious history and the sociology of religion more generally.
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 research. This research companion brings together a team
of leading scholars writing broad-ranging chapters on key themes in
the history of evangelicalism. It provides an authoritative and
state-of-the-art review of current scholarship, and maps the
territory for future research. Primary attention is paid to
English-speaking evangelicalism, but the volume is transnational in
its scope. Arranged thematically, chapters assess evangelicalism
and the Bible, the atonement, spirituality, revivals and
revivalism, worldwide mission in the Atlantic North and the Global
South, eschatology, race, gender, culture and the arts, money and
business, interactions with Roman Catholicism, Eastern
Christianity, and Islam, and globalization. It demonstrates
evangelicalism's multiple and contested identities in different
ages and contexts. The historical and thematic approach of this
research companion makes it an invaluable resource for scholars and
students alike worldwide.
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Philip Gorski is a very well-known and highly respected author. His
work on Christianity and Democracy is ground breaking and he is a
pioneer of the field. The book is incredibly topical and will be of
interested to those studying Christianity, religion and politics
and evangelicalism. This will be the first academic book to take
this approach to the subject area.
Exploring the response of evangelicals to the collapse of 'Greater
Christian Britain' in Australia in the long 1960s, this book
provides a new religious perspective to the end of empire and a
fresh national perspective to the end of Christendom. In the
turbulent 1960s, two foundations of the Western world rapidly and
unexpectedly collapsed. 'Christendom', marked by the dominance of
discursive Christianity in public culture, and 'Greater Britain',
the powerful sentimental and strategic union of Britain and its
settler societies, disappeared from the collective mental map with
startling speed. To illuminate these contemporaneous global shifts,
this book takes as a case study the response of Australian
evangelical Christian leaders to the cultural and religious crises
encountered between 1959 and 1979. Far from being a narrow national
study, this book places its case studies in the context of the
latest North American and European scholarship on secularisation,
imperialism and evangelicalism. Drawing on a wide range of archival
sources, it examines critical figures such as Billy Graham, Fred
Nile and Hans Mol, as well as issues of empire, counter-cultural
movements and racial and national identity. This study will be of
particular interest to any scholar of Evangelicalism in the
twentieth century. It will also be a useful resource for academics
looking into the wider impacts of the decline of Christianity and
the British Empire in Western civilisation.
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