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This book treads new ground by bringing the Evangelical and
Dissenting movements within Christianity into close engagement with
one another. While Evangelicalism and Dissent both have well
established historiographies, there are few books that specifically
explore the relationship between the two. Thus, this complex
relationship is often overlooked and underemphasised. The volume is
organised chronologically, covering the period from the late
seventeenth century to the closing decades of the twentieth
century. Some chapters deal with specific centuries but others
chart developments across the whole period covered by the book.
Chapters are balanced between those that concentrate on an
individual, such as George Whitefield or John Stott, and those that
focus on particular denominational groups like Wesleyan Methodism,
Congregationalism or the 'Black Majority Churches'. The result is a
new insight into the cross pollination of these movements that will
help the reader to understand modern Christianity in England and
Wales more fully. Offering a fresh look at the development of
Evangelicalism and Dissent, this volume will be of keen interest to
any scholar of Religious Studies, Church History, Theology or
modern Britain.
This book treads new ground by bringing the Evangelical and
Dissenting movements within Christianity into close engagement with
one another. While Evangelicalism and Dissent both have well
established historiographies, there are few books that specifically
explore the relationship between the two. Thus, this complex
relationship is often overlooked and underemphasised. The volume is
organised chronologically, covering the period from the late
seventeenth century to the closing decades of the twentieth
century. Some chapters deal with specific centuries but others
chart developments across the whole period covered by the book.
Chapters are balanced between those that concentrate on an
individual, such as George Whitefield or John Stott, and those that
focus on particular denominational groups like Wesleyan Methodism,
Congregationalism or the 'Black Majority Churches'. The result is a
new insight into the cross pollination of these movements that will
help the reader to understand modern Christianity in England and
Wales more fully. Offering a fresh look at the development of
Evangelicalism and Dissent, this volume will be of keen interest to
any scholar of Religious Studies, Church History, Theology or
modern Britain.
The book is a collection of twenty-one essays discussing how
Baptists throughout the world have related to other Christians and
to other institutions and movements over the centuries. The theme
of this collection of twenty-one essays, 'Baptists and Others',
includes relations with other Christians and with other
institutions and movements. What, the authors ask, has been the
Baptist experience of engaging with different groups and
developments? The theme has been explored by means of case studies,
some of which are very specific in time and place while others
cover long periods and more than one country. In the first half the
contents are arranged by period. The first section examines early
Baptists, the second nineteenth-century Baptists in Britain and
America and the third Baptists in the twentieth century. The second
half turns to various parts of the world. There is a section on
Australia, another on New Zealand and a third on Asia and Africa.
The overall picture is one of a complicated series of relationships
as Baptists defined themselves as different from other bodies and
yet, especially in the twentieth century, tried to co-operate in
mission and ecumenical endeavour. 'Baptists are often regarded as
enthusiastic separatists and unenthusiastic ecumenists. These
essays, based on hard evidence rather than passing impressions, are
a necessary correction to superficial prejudices and show the
reality to be much more complex and nuanced, as well as varied over
time and place. The book is a smorgasbord of delights. Yet, readers
should avoid the temptation to pick and choose from the menu,
ensuring rather that each offering is digested so they enjoy a
balance and nutritious meal.' Derek Tidball
This is a series of four substantial volumes designed to
demonstrate the range of interests of the several Protestant
Nonconformist traditions from the time of their Separatist
harbingers in the sixteenth century to the end of the twentieth
century. It represents a major project of the Association of
Denominational Historical Societies and Cognate Libraries. Each
volume comprises a General Introduction followed by texts
illustrative of such topics as theology, philosophy, worship and
socio-political concerns. This work has never before been drawn
together for publication in this way. Prepared by a team of twelve
editors, all of whom are expert in their areas and drawn from a
number of the relevant traditions, it will provide a much needed
comprehensive view of Nonconformity told largely in the words of
those whose story it is. The works will prove to be an invaluable
resource to scholars, students, academics and specialist and public
libraries, as well as to a wider range of church, intellectual and
general historians. This volume gathers and introduces texts
relating to English and Welsh Nonconformity. Through contemporary
writings it provides a vivid insight into the life and thought of
the Methodists, Congregationalists, Baptists, Quakers, Unitarians
and other groups that formed pieces in the diverse mosaic of the
nineteenth-century chapels. Each aspect of Nonconformity has an
introductory discussion, which includes a guide to the secondary
literature on the subject, and each passage from a primary source
is put in context.
This is a series of four substantial volumes designed to
demonstrate the range of interests of the several Protestant
Nonconformist traditions from the time of their Separatist
harbingers in the sixteenth century to the end of the twentieth
century. It represents a major project of the Association of
Denominational Historical Societies and Cognate Libraries. Each
volume comprises a General Introduction followed by texts
illustrative of such topics as theology, philosophy, worship and
socio-political concerns. This work has never before been drawn
together for publication in this way. Prepared by a team of twelve
editors, all of whom are expert in their areas and drawn from a
number of the relevant traditions, it will provide a much needed
comprehensive view of Nonconformity told largely in the words of
those whose story it is. The works will prove to be an invaluable
resource to scholars, students, academics and specialist and public
libraries, as well as to a wider range of church, intellectual and
general historians. This volume gathers and introduces texts
relating to English and Welsh Nonconformity. Through contemporary
writings it provides a vivid insight into the life and thought of
the Methodists, Congregationalists, Baptists, Quakers, Unitarians
and other groups that formed pieces in the diverse mosaic of the
nineteenth-century chapels. Each aspect of Nonconformity has an
introductory discussion, which includes a guide to the secondary
literature on the subject, and each passage from a primary source
is put in context.
The Nonconformists of England and Wales, the Protestants outside
the Church of England, were particularly numerous in the Victorian
years. 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.
About the Contributor(s): Peter J. Morden is Vice Principal of
Spurgeon's College, London, a Fellow of the Centre for Baptist
History and Heritage, Regent's Park College, Oxford, and a Fellow
of the Royal Historical Society.
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Baptists and Mission (Paperback)
Ian M. Randall, Anthony R. Cross; Foreword by David Bebbington
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Revivals are outbursts of religious enthusiasm in which there are
numerous conversions. In this book the phenomenon of revival is set
in its broad historical and historiographical context. David
Bebbington provides detailed case-studies of awakenings that took
place between 1841 and 1880 in Britain, North America and
Australia, showing that the distinctive features of particular
revivals were the result less of national differences than of
denominational variations. These revivals occurred in many places
across the globe, but revealed the shared characteristics of
evangelical Protestantism. Bebbington explores the preconditions of
revival, giving attention to the cultural setting of each episode
as well as the form of piety displayed by the participants. No
single cause can be assigned to the awakenings, but one of the
chief factors behind them was occupational structure and striking
instances of death were often a precipitant. Ideas were far more
involved in these events than historians have normally supposed, so
that the case-studies demonstrate some of the main patterns in
religious thought at a popular level during the Victorian period.
Laymen and women played a disproportionate part in their promotion
and converts were usually drawn in large numbers from the young.
There was a trend over time away from traditional spontaneity
towards more organised methods sometimes entailing
interdenominational co-operation.
Christianity and cultural aspirations are inevitably in tension:
the combination invites a suspicion that temporal pursuits have
slackened a quest for divine approbation. Nevertheless, as
Christians generally believe that worldly success may be a position
of influence worth seeking for noble reasons, it is truly an area
of tension, rather than merely temptation. This volume explores
this lively juxtaposition in the context of modern Britain and
America. In fifteen original essays, a range of well-respected
scholars examine the cultural aspirations of a broad spectrum of
Christians, including Baptists, Congregationalists, Methodists,
Presbyterians, Roman Catholics, and Anglicans, as they were
expressed in arenas as diverse as politics, education,
arthitecture, and sport.
Gladstone's ideas are far more accessible for analysis now that,
following the publication of his diaries, a record of his reading
is available. This book traces the evolution of what the diaries
reveal as the statesman's central intellectual preoccupations,
theology and classical scholarship, as well as the groundwork of
his early Conservatism and his mature Liberalism. In particular it
examines the ideological sources of Gladstone's youthful opposition
to reform before scrutinizing his convictions in theology. These
are shown to have passed through more stages than has previously
been supposed: he moved from Evangelicalism to Orthodox High
Churchmanship, on to Tractarianism and then further to a broader
stance that eventually crystallized as a liberal Catholicism. His
classical studies, focused primarily on Homer, also changed over
time, from a version that was designed to defend a traditional
worldview to an approach that exalted the depiction of human
endeavour in the ancient Greek poet. An enduring principle of his
thought about religion and antiquity was the importance of
community, but a fresh axiom that arose from the modifications of
his views was the centrality of all that was human. The twin values
of community and humanity are shown to have conditioned Gladstone's
rhetoric as Liberal leader, so making him, in terms of recent
political thought, a communitarian rather than a liberal, but one
with a distinctive humanitarian message. As a result of a thorough
scrutiny of Gladstone's private papers, the Victorian statesman is
shown to have derived a distinctive standpoint from the Christian
and classical sources of his thinking and so to have left an
enduring intellectual legacy. It becomes apparent that his
religion, Homeric studies and political thought were interwoven in
unexpected ways. The evolution of Gladstone's central intellectual
preoccupations, with religion and Homer, is the theme of this book.
It shows how the statesman developed from Evangelism to Orthodox
High Churchmanship, on to Tractarianism and then further to a
broader stance that eventually crystallized as a liberal
Catholicism. It demonstrates also that his Homeric studies
developed over time. Neither aspect of his thinking was kept apart
from his politics. Gladstone's early conservatism emerged from a
blend of classical and Christian themes focusing on the idea of
community. While that motif persisted in his speeches as Liberal
leader, the category of the human emerged from his religious and
Homeric ideas to condition the presentation of his Liberalism. In
Gladstone's mind there was an intertwining of theology, Homeric
studies and political thought.
Essays that explore how Protestants responded to the opportunities
and perils of revolution in the transatlantic age Revolution as
Reformation: Protestant Faith in the Age of Revolutions, 1688-1832
highlights the role that Protestantism played in shaping both
individual and collective responses to revolution. These essays
explore the various ways that the Protestant tradition, rooted in a
perpetual process of recalibration and reformulation, provided the
lens through which Protestants experienced and understood social
and political change in the Age of Revolutions. In particular, they
call attention to how Protestants used those changes to continue or
accelerate the Protestant imperative of refining their faith toward
an improved vision of reformed religion. The editors and
contributors define faith broadly: they incorporate individuals as
well as specific sects and denominations, and as much of "life
experience" as possible, not just life within a given church. In
this way, the volume reveals how believers combined the practical
demands of secular society with their personal faith and how, in
turn, their attempts to reform religion shaped secular society. The
wide-ranging essays highlight the exchange of Protestant thinkers,
traditions, and ideas across the Atlantic during this period. These
perspectives reveal similarities between revolutionary movements
across and around the Atlantic. The essays also emphasize the
foundational role that religion played in people's attempts to make
sense of their world, and the importance they placed on harmonizing
their ideas about religion and politics. These efforts produced
novel theories of government, encouraged both revolution and
counterrevolution, and refined both personal and collective
understandings of faith and its relationship to society.
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