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The Changing Shape of English Nonconformity, 1825-1925 (Hardcover)
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The Changing Shape of English Nonconformity, 1825-1925 (Hardcover)
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This book addresses several dimensions of the transformation of
English Nonconformity over the course of an important century in
its history. It begins with the question of education for ministry,
considering the activities undertaken by four major evangelical
traditions (Congregationalist, Baptist, Methodist, and
Presbyterian) to establish theological colleges for this purpose,
and then takes up the complex three-way relationship of
ministry/churches/colleges that evolved from these activities. As
author Dale Johnson illustrates, this evolution came to have
significant implications for the Nonconformist engagement with its
message and with the culture at large. These implications are
investigated in chapters on the changing perception or
understanding of ministry itself, religious authority, theological
questions (such as the doctrines of God and the atonement), and
religious identity.
In Johnson's exploration of these issues, conversations about these
topics are located primarily in addresses at denominational
meetings, conferences that took up specific questions, and
representative religious and theological publications of the day
that participated in key debates or advocated contentious
positions. While attending to some important denominational
differences, The Changing Shape of English Nonconformity, 1825-1925
focuses on the representative discussion of these topics across the
whole spectrum of evangelical Nonconformity rather than on specific
denominational traditions.
Johnson maintains that too many interpretations of
nineteenth-century Nonconformity, especially those that deal with
aspects of the theological discussion within these traditions, have
tended to depict such developments as occasions of decline from
earlier phases of evangelical vitality and appeal. This book
instead argues that it is more appropriate to assess these
Nonconformist developments as a collective, necessary, and deeply
serious effort to come to terms with modernity and, further, to
retain a responsible understanding of what it meant to be
evangelical. It also shows these developments to be part of a
larger schema through which Nonconformity assumed a more prominent
place in the English culture of the nineteenth and early twentieth
centuries.
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