Synopsis: The Nonconformists of England and Wales, the Protestants
outside the Church of England, were particularly numerous in the
Victorian years. From being a small minority in the eighteenth
century, they had increased to represent nearly half the
worshipping nation by the middle years of the nineteenth century.
These Methodists, Congregationalists, Baptists, Quakers,
Unitarians, and others helped shape society and made their mark in
politics. This book explains the main characteristics of each
denomination and examines the circumstances that enabled them to
grow. It evaluates the main academic hypothesis about their role
and points to signs of their subsequent decline in the twentieth
century. Here is a succinct account of an important dimension of
the Christian past in Britain. Endorsements: "No one can understand
the Victorians who does not appreciate the impact of a dynamic
Christian counter-culture in their midst--Protestant Dissent.
Nonconformity gave the age its pre-eminent preacher, C.H. Spurgeon,
its most famous missionary, David Livingstone, one of the most
respected women in all of British history, the prison reformer
Elizabeth Fry, recreational institutions such as the YMCA and Aston
Villa football club, highly successful businesses such as Thomas
Cook's tours and Cadbury's chocolate, and much more. David
Bebbington is the greatest authority on Victorian Nonconformity
working today and this book is the best introduction to this
subject that has ever been written. There is no better place to
start learning about the Free Churches in nineteenth-century
Britain than with this learned, lucid, and accessible volume."
Timothy Larsen, McManis Professor of Christian Thought, Wheaton
College "It is a very good thing to see this new edition of David
Bebbington's detailed, informative, and clearly outlined primer on
the Nonconformist churches during the period when their national
influence was at its height. The booklet is carefully detailed,
unusually informative, and skilfully outlined. Its success in
explaining who the Nonconformists were, how they differed from the
Church of England (and among themselves), and why their fortunes
rose and fell makes this an ideal beginning point for further
study, both historical and theological." Mark A. Noll, McAnaney
Professor of History, University of Notre Dame "This welcome
reprint and light revision of Professor Bebbington's work reminds
us that communities often caricatured as narrow and hypocritical
were attempting to 'create a Christian counter-culture' which gave
meaning to the lives of many ordinary people and influenced society
at large. Combining critical analysis with engaging vignettes of
individuals, this is an attractive, lucid and authoritative
introduction to Victorian Nonconformity." Henry D. Rack, Honorary
Fellow and former Bishop Fraser Senior Lecturer in Ecclesiastical
History, University of Manchester Author Biography: David
Bebbington has served since 1976 at the University of Stirling,
where he is Professor of History. His books include Evangelicalism
in Modern Britain: A History from the 1730s to the 1980s (1989),
The Mind of Gladstone: Religion, Homer and Politics (2004) and The
Dominance of Evangelicalism: The Age of Spurgeon and Moody (2005).
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