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This is the first book length assesment in English of the impact of
Karl Barth's theology in Britain. Beginning with the essays of
Adolf Keller and H.R. Mackintosh in the 1920s, it analyses the
interplay between Barth's developing thought and different strands
of English, Scottish and Welsh church history up to the 1980s.
Barth's impact on British perceptions of the German Church Struggle
during the 1930s is discussed, along with the ready acceptance that
his theology gained among the English Congregationalists, Welsh
Nonconformists and theologians of the Church of Scotland. Half
forgotten names such as John McConnachie and Nathaniel Micklem are
brought to light along with better known representatives of British
Barthianism like Daniel T. Jenkins and T.F. Torrance. Barth and the
secular theology of the 1960s are assessed, along with the
beginnings of the Barthian renaissance linked with Colin Gunton and
others during the 1980s. Barth Reception in Britain is a
contribution to modern church history as well as the history of
doctrine.
Christianity, in its Catholic, Protestant and Nonconformist forms,
has played an enormous role in the history of Wales and in the
defining and shaping of Welsh identity over the past two thousand
years. Biblical place names, an urban and rural landscape littered
with churches, chapels, crosses and sacred sites, a bardic and
literary tradition deeply imbued with Christian themes in both the
Welsh and English languages, and the songs sung by tens of
thousands of rugby supporters at the national stadium in Cardiff,
all hint at a Christian presence that was once universal. Yet for
many in contemporary Wales, the story of the development of
Christianity in their country remains little known. While the
history of Christianity in Wales has been a subject of perennial
interest for Welsh historians, much of their work has been highly
specialised and not always accessible to a general audience.
Standing on the shoulders of some of Wales's finest historians,
this is the first single-volume history of Welsh Christianity from
its origins in Roman Britain to the present day. Drawing on the
expertise of four leading historians of the Welsh Christian
tradition, this volume is specifically designed for the general
reader, and those beginning their exploration of Wales's Christian
past.
As well as outlining the shape of Welsh religious history
generally, this second volume of Theologia Cambrensis describes the
development of Calvinistic Methodist thought up to and beyond the
secession from the Established Church in 1811, and the way in which
the Evangelical Revival impacted the Older Dissent to create a
vibrant popular Nonconformity. Along with analysing aspects of
theology and doctrine, the narrative assesses the contribution of
such key personalities as William Williams Pantycelyn, Thomas
Charles of Bala and Thomas Jones of Denbigh, and the Nonconformists
Titus Lewis, Joseph Harris ‘Gomer’, George Lewis, David Rees
and Gwilym Hiraethog. Following the notorious ‘Treachery of the
Blue Books’ of 1847 and the Religious Census of 1851, Anglicanism
regained ground, and among the themes treated in the latter
chapters of this volume are the influence of High Church
Tractarianism and the Broad Church ‘Lampeter Theology’ in the
parishes. The volume concludes by assessing the intellectual
culture of evangelicalism personified by Lewis Edwards and Thomas
Charles Edwards, and describes the challenges posed by Darwinism,
philosophical Idealism and a more critical attitude to the biblical
text.
The first of a two-volume analysis of theology in Wales, this
volume begins with the publication of Bishop William Morgan's Bible
in 1588 and concludes with the first phase of the Evangelical
Revival in 1760. It assesses the development of Puritanism and of
doctrine within the Church of England, Dissenting theology
including Calvinism and Arminianism, the doctrinal vision of
Griffith Jones Llanddowror, and the way in which an
evangelistically vibrant moderate Calvinism contributed to the rise
of the Methodist movement. As well as evaluating thought and ideas,
it assesses the contribution of such vivid personalities as Morgan
Llwyd, Charles Edwards, James and Jeremy Owen, Daniel Rowland and
William Williams Pantycelyn.
The eighteenth century was a crucial time in Baptist history. The
denomination had its roots in seventeenth-century English
Puritanism and Separatism and the persecution of the Stuart kings,
with only a limited measure of freedom after 1689. Worse, however,
was to follow for with toleration came doctrinal conflict, a move
away from central Christian understandings and a loss of
evangelistic urgency. Both spiritual and numerical decline ensued,
to the extent that the denomination was virtually reborn as rather
belatedly it came to benefit from the Evangelical Revival which
brought new life to both Arminian and Calvinistic Baptists. It has,
however, been strongly argued that those who were associated with
Bristol College had a continuous tradition of Evangelical Calvinism
and that the General Baptists of the South Midlands and the Home
Counties, owing as much to the legacy of the Lollards as to Dutch
Anabaptism, did not succumb to heterodoxy. The papers in this
volume therefore study a denomination in transition, and relate to
theology, their views of the church and its mission, Baptist
spirituality, and engagement with radical politics.
" This is the first book length assesment in English of the impact
of Karl Barth's theology in Britain. Beginning with the essays of
Adolf Keller and H.R. Mackintosh in the 1920s, it analyses the
interplay between Barth's developing thought and different strands
of English, Scottish and Welsh church history up to the 1980s.
Barth's impact on British perceptions of the German Church Struggle
during the 1930s is discussed, along with the ready acceptance that
his theology gained among the English Congregationalists, Welsh
Nonconformists and theologians of the Church of Scotland. Half
forgotten names such as John McConnachie and Nathaniel Micklem are
brought to light along with better known representatives of British
Barthianism like Daniel T. Jenkins and T.F. Torrance. Barth and the
secular theology of the 1960s are assessed, along with the
beginnings of the Barthian renaissance linked with Colin Gunton and
others during the 1980s. Barth Reception in Britain is a
contribution to modern church history as well as the history of
doctrine. "
The author, a university teacher of theology, has taken his basic
introductory course and adapted it for a lay audience. It addresses
the questions that every Christian ought to be asking: how did the
Bible come together? Why do we believe it to be true? What is
faith? How do we know God? What does it mean to belong to the
Church? and much more. Drawing on 2000 years of theological writing
and insight, this is a fluent guide to Christian faith.
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