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In this concise volume, historian David Bebbington offers a summary
of various theories of history from ancient times down to the
present. Patterns in History provides Christian students of history
with a trusted guidein what Mark Noll has described as "the best
evangelical introduction to the history of history writing." The
updated and expanded fourth edition contains a new chapter on
postmodern history, making an already important book even more
essential. Bebbington begins by asking "what is history?" He
organizes his answer, and the book, around the interplay between
history as the historical process (how it has been understood and
interpreted in the past) and historiography (the account of the
past written by historians). In six chapters Bebbington describes
and evaluates each of what he identifies as the main schools of
thought about the nature and meaning of the historical process:
cyclical history, Christian history, the idea of progress,
historicism, Marxist history, and postmodern history. Bebbington
analyzes theories of historiography before returning to the
question of meaning in history. He argues that Christianity offers
scholarly, as well as religious, answers to questions and
contradictions that abound in both areas. By assessing how the
Christian philosophy of history parallels, informs, and corrects
secular theories, Bebbington suggests a chastened way forward for
Christian historians. Even as they must acknowledge and wrestle
with the complexities of the human story, Christian historians come
to the task with an understanding of history as the realm of
providence and purpose. Whether that conviction is implicit or
explicit in the historian's writing, it is the distinctive element
of faithful historical analysis.
Baptists through the Centuries provides a clear introduction to the
history and theology of this influential and international people.
David Bebbington, a leading Baptist historian, surveys the main
developments in Baptist life and thought from the seventeenth
century to the present. The Baptist movement took root and grew
well beyond its British and American origins. Bebbington
persuasively demonstrates how Baptists continually adapted to the
cultures and societies in which they lived, generating ever more
diversity within an already multifaceted group. Bebbington's survey
also examines the challenging social, political, and intellectual
issues in Baptist historyaattitudes on race, women's roles in the
church, religious liberty, missions, and theological commitments.
The second edition of this proven textbook extends the scope with
chapters on three parts of the world where Baptists have become
particularly numerous: Latin America (where Brazilian Baptists
number over 2 million), Nigeria (where Baptists are at their
strongest outside North America, numbering roughly 5 million), and
the Naga Hills in India (where Baptists form over 80 percent of the
population). Each chapter also highlights regional issues that have
presented new challenges and opportunities to Baptists: holistic
mission in Latin America, the experience of charismatic renewal and
the encounter with Islam in Nigeria, and the demands of peacemaking
in the Naga Hills. Through this new edition, Bebbington orients
readers and expands their knowledge of the Baptist community as it
continues to flourish around the world.
This major textbook is a newly researched historical study of
Evangelical religion in its British cultural setting from its
inception in the time of John Wesley to charismatic renewal today.
The Church of England, the Church of Scotland and the variety of
Nonconformist denominations and sects in England, Scotland and
Wales are discussed, but the book concentrates on the broad
patterns of change affecting all the churches. It shows the great
impact of the Evangelical movement on nineteenth-century Britain,
accounts for its resurgence since the Second World War and argues
that developments in the ideas and attitudes of the movement were
shaped most by changes in British culture. The contemporary
interest in the phenomenon of Fundamentalism, especially in the
United States, makes the book especially timely.
An important contribution to the understanding of twentieth-century
Anglicanism and evangelicalism This volume makes a considerable
contribution to the understanding of twentieth-century Anglicanism
and evangelicalism. It includes an expansive introduction which
both engages with recent scholarship and challenges existing
narratives. The book locates the diverse Anglican evangelical
movement in the broader fields of the history of English
Christianity and evangelical globalisation. Contributors argue that
evangelicals often engaged constructively with the wider Church of
England, long before the 1967 Keele Congress, and displayed a
greater internal party unity than has previously been supposed.
Other significant themes include the rise of various
'neo-evangelicalisms', charismaticism, lay leadership, changing
conceptions of national identity, and the importance of
generational shifts. The volume also provides an analysis of major
organisations, conferences and networks, including the Keswick
Convention, Islington Conference and Nationwide Festival of Light.
ANDREW ATHERSTONE is tutor in history and doctrine, and Latimer
research fellow at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford. JOHN MAIDEN is lecturer
in the Department of Religious Studies at the Open University. He
is author of National Religion and the Prayer Book Controversy,
1927-1928 (The Boydell Press, 2009).
This volume provides a comprehensive, thematic survey of the
leading traits of worldwide evangelicalism between the 1850s and
the 1890s. The discussion covers such topics as commonalities
across denominational diversity; expression of faith in
spirituality, worship, mission and social involvement; the legacy
of the Enlightenment and the influence of Romanticism; and
theological trends. The book argues that the movement was marked by
a strong sense of global unity. It surveys a range of the era's
best-known figures, including Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Dwight L.
Moody, Ira D. Sankey, Lord Shaftesbury, David Livingstone, George
MA1/4ller, Andrew Murray, James Hudson Taylor, and William and
Catherine Booth.
This major textbook is a newly researched historical study of
Evangelical religion in its British cultural setting from its
inception in the time of John Wesley to charismatic renewal
today.
The Church of England, the Church of Scotland and the variety of
Nonconformist denominations and sects in England, Scotland and
Wales are discussed, but the book concentrates on the broad
patterns of change affecting all the churches. It shows the great
impact of the Evangelical movement on nineteenth-century Britain,
accounts for its resurgence since the Second World War and argues
that developments in the ideas and attitudes of the movement were
shaped most by changes in British culture.
The contemporary interest in the phenomenon of Fundamentalism,
especially in the United States, makes the book especially
timely.
Los Bautistas a travĂŠs de los siglos ofrece una clara
introducciĂłn a la historia y la teologĂa de este pueblo
influyente e internacional. David W. Bebbington, un destacado
historiador bautista, analiza los principales desarrollos en la
vida y el pensamiento bautistas desde el siglo XVII hasta el
presente. La segunda ediciĂłn de este probado libro de texto
amplĂa el alcance con capĂtulos sobre tres partes del mundo donde
los bautistas se han vuelto particularmente numerosos: AmĂŠrica
Latina, Nigeria, y las colinas de Naga en la India. Cada capĂtulo
tambiĂŠn destaca temas regionales que han presentado nuevos
desafĂos y oportunidades para los bautistas: la misiĂłn holĂstica
en AmĂŠrica Latina, la experiencia de renovaciĂłn carismĂĄtica y el
encuentro con el Islam en Nigeria, y las demandas de pacificaciĂłn
en las colinas de Naga. A travĂŠs de esta nueva ediciĂłn,
Bebbington orienta a los lectores y amplĂa su conocimiento de la
comunidad bautista a medida que continĂşa floreciendo en todo el
mundo.
Description: William Carey, often dubbed ""The Father of Modern
Missions,"" and Adoniram Judson, America's first intercontinental
missionary, were pioneers whose missions overlapped in chronology,
geography, and purpose. However, rarely are they both featured in
the same volume or compared and contrasted. Here we have unique
material by some of the world's leading experts (such as Timothy
George and Michael Haykin) on these two giants of missionary
history, with perspectives on these men in ways never seen before.
Especially relevant to this current age of World Christianity are
the perspectives from India and Burma, the lands which received
these men for their missionary enterprise. About the
Contributor(s): Allen Yeh is Associate Professor of Intercultural
Studies and Missiology at Biola University near Los Angeles,
California. He is the co-author of Routes and Radishes and Other
Things to Talk About at the Evangelical Crossroads (2010). Chris
Chun is Associate Professor of Church History at Golden Gate
Baptist Theological Seminary near San Francisco, California. He is
the author of The Legacy of Jonathan Edwards in the Theology of
Andrew Fuller (2012).
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).
The shift of the center of gravity in world Christianity from the
Global North to the Global South was arguably the most important
development in the faith during the twentieth century. One of the
most salient dimensions within that broader evolution was the rise
of evangelical Protestantism in Latin America, once a Roman
Catholic stronghold. In the early twenty-first century a high
percentage of Latin America was Pentecostal, but there had also
been significant growth of other denominations, including
Methodists and Baptists. By 2019 an estimated 19 percent of the
population of Latin America identified as evangelicals. The Gospel
in Latin America includes a broad range of studies in the history
of Latin American evangelicalism from experts in the field. Five
chapters address issues affecting the whole of Latin America,
including the relationship of evangelicalism to demography and the
rise of the political ideology of Dominionism. A further five
concentrate on developments in specific nations such as evangelical
intellectual life in Brazil and the forging of evangelical identity
in Argentina. Pentecostalism is included, but space is given to the
full range of religious groups. Politics is not omitted, but the
volume's main concern is the core religious priorities of the
movement associated with the spread of the gospel.
The shift of the center of gravity in world Christianity from the
Global North to the Global South was arguably the most important
development in the faith during the twentieth century. One of the
most salient dimensions within that broader evolution was the rise
of evangelical Protestantism in Latin America, once a Roman
Catholic stronghold. In the early twenty-first century a high
percentage of Latin America was Pentecostal, but there had also
been significant growth of other denominations, including
Methodists and Baptists. By 2019 an estimated 19 percent of the
population of Latin America identified as evangelicals. The Gospel
in Latin America includes a broad range of studies in the history
of Latin American evangelicalism from experts in the field. Five
chapters address issues affecting the whole of Latin America,
including the relationship of evangelicalism to demography and the
rise of the political ideology of Dominionism. A further five
concentrate on developments in specific nations such as evangelical
intellectual life in Brazil and the forging of evangelical identity
in Argentina. Pentecostalism is included, but space is given to the
full range of religious groups. Politics is not omitted, but the
volume's main concern is the core religious priorities of the
movement associated with the spread of the gospel.
David Bebbington is well known for his characterization of the
Evangelical movement in terms of the four leading emphases of
Bible, cross, conversion, and activism. This quadrilateral was
expounded in his classic 1989 book Evangelicalism in Modern
Britain: A History from the 1730s to the 1980s. Bebbington
developed many of the themes in that book in articles published
from the 1980s to the present, but until now most of those articles
have remained little known. The present collection of thirty-two
essays makes readily available these important explorations of key
aspects in the history of Evangelicalism. The Evangelical movement
arose in the eighteenth century in Britain and America as a
revitalization of Protestantism. Sharing much with the Puritans who
preceded them, the Evangelicals nevertheless adopted a fresh stance
by making revival rather than reformation their priority. Coming
from diverse denominations, they formed a zealous united front.
Over subsequent centuries they grew in number and carried their
message throughout the world, giving rise to many of the churches
in the global South that have come to the forefront in world
Christianity. The essays in this work deal chiefly with Britain,
though a few place the British movement in a world setting. Because
Evangelicals on both sides of the Atlantic interacted, reading much
of the same literature and visiting each other, there was a great
deal of common ground between the British and American movements.
Hence many of the topics covered here relate to developments
mirrored in the American churches over the last three centuries.
The two volumes of The Evangelical Quadrilateral address different
aspects of the Evangelical movement. The first volume deals with
issues in the movement as a whole, and the second volume examines
features of particular denominational bodies within Evangelicalism.
Each volume contains an introductory essay reviewing recent
literature in the field, and then a series of related essays.
Volume 1, Characterizing the British Gospel Movement, begins with
an overview of the nature of the movement. The essays cover such
representative areas as the affinity of early Evangelicalism with
the Enlightenment, the impact of Americans Jonathan Edwards and
Dwight L. Moody, the advent hope and the experience of conversion
as key doctrines of Evangelicalism, the growth of academic
historical studies of and by Evangelicals, Evangelical attitudes to
science, and widespread trends in the movement and its shifting
patterns of public worship in the twenty-first century. The first
volume also provides detail on many of the main features that
British Evangelicals displayed in common.
David Bebbington is well known for his characterization of the
Evangelical movement in terms of the four leading emphases of
Bible, cross, conversion, and activism. This quadrilateral was
expounded in his classic 1989 book Evangelicalism in Modern
Britain: A History from the 1730s to the 1980s. Bebbington
developed many of the themes in that book in articles published
from the 1980s to the present, but until now most of those articles
have remained little known. The present collection of thirty-two
essays makes readily available these important explorations of key
aspects in the history of Evangelicalism. The Evangelical movement
arose in the eighteenth century in Britain and America as a
revitalization of Protestantism. Sharing much with the Puritans who
preceded them, the Evangelicals nevertheless adopted a fresh stance
by making revival rather than reformation their priority. Coming
from diverse denominations, they formed a zealous united front.
Over subsequent centuries they grew in number and carried their
message throughout the world, giving rise to many of the churches
in the global South that have come to the forefront in world
Christianity. The essays in this work deal chiefly with Britain,
though a few place the British movement in a world setting. Because
Evangelicals on both sides of the Atlantic interacted, reading much
of the same literature and visiting each other, there was a great
deal of common ground between the British and American movements.
Hence many of the topics covered here relate to developments
mirrored in the American churches over the last three centuries.
The two volumes of The Evangelical Quadrilateral address different
aspects of the Evangelical movement. The first volume deals with
issues in the movement as a whole, and the second volume examines
features of particular denominational bodies within Evangelicalism.
Each volume contains an introductory essay reviewing recent
literature in the field, and then a series of related essays.
Volume 1, Characterizing the British Gospel Movement, begins with
an overview of the nature of the movement. The essays cover such
representative areas as the affinity of early Evangelicalism with
the Enlightenment, the impact of Americans Jonathan Edwards and
Dwight L. Moody, the advent hope and the experience of conversion
as key doctrines of Evangelicalism, the growth of academic
historical studies of and by Evangelicals, Evangelical attitudes to
science, and widespread trends in the movement and its shifting
patterns of public worship in the twenty-first century. The first
volume also provides detail on many of the main features that
British Evangelicals displayed in common.
David Bebbington is well known for his characterization of the
Evangelical movement in terms of the four leading emphases of
Bible, cross, conversion, and activism. This quadrilateral was
expounded in his classic 1989 book Evangelicalism in Modern
Britain: A History from the 1730s to the 1980s. Bebbington
developed many of the themes in that book in articles published
from the 1980s to the present, but until now most of those articles
have remained little known. The present collection of thirty-two
essays makes readily available these important explorations of key
aspects in the history of Evangelicalism. The Evangelical movement
arose in the eighteenth century in Britain and America as a
revitalization of Protestantism. Sharing much with the Puritans who
preceded them, the Evangelicals nevertheless adopted a fresh stance
by making revival rather than reformation their priority. Coming
from diverse denominations, they formed a zealous united front.
Over subsequent centuries they grew in number and carried their
message throughout the world, giving rise to many of the churches
in the global South that have come to the forefront in world
Christianity. The essays in this work deal chiefly with Britain,
though a few place the British movement in a world setting. Because
Evangelicals on both sides of the Atlantic interacted, reading much
of the same literature and visiting each other, there was a great
deal of common ground between the British and American movements.
Hence many of the topics covered here relate to developments
mirrored in the American churches over the last three centuries.
The two volumes of The Evangelical Quadrilateral address different
aspects of the Evangelical movement. The first volume deals with
issues in the movement as a whole, and the second volume examines
features of particular denominational bodies within Evangelicalism.
Each volume contains an introductory essay reviewing recent
literature in the field, and then a series of related essays.
Volume 2, The Denominational Mosaic of the British Gospel Movement,
turns to the movement's component parts. The essays cover such
representative areas as the Islington Conference's influence in
setting out the public stance of Anglican Evangelicals, the
doctrine and spirituality of the Methodists, the Baptists in
Britain in light of Nathan Hatch's thesis about the democratization
of American Christianity, the role of the (so-called Plymouth)
Brethren in world Evangelicalism, and the charismatic renewal that
transformed church life in the postwar world. This second volume
therefore brings out the wide range of denominations in the
Evangelical mosaic.
David Bebbington is well known for his characterization of the
Evangelical movement in terms of the four leading emphases of
Bible, cross, conversion, and activism. This quadrilateral was
expounded in his classic 1989 book Evangelicalism in Modern
Britain: A History from the 1730s to the 1980s. Bebbington
developed many of the themes in that book in articles published
from the 1980s to the present, but until now most of those articles
have remained little known. The present collection of thirty-two
essays makes readily available these important explorations of key
aspects in the history of Evangelicalism. The Evangelical movement
arose in the eighteenth century in Britain and America as a
revitalization of Protestantism. Sharing much with the Puritans who
preceded them, the Evangelicals nevertheless adopted a fresh stance
by making revival rather than reformation their priority. Coming
from diverse denominations, they formed a zealous united front.
Over subsequent centuries they grew in number and carried their
message throughout the world, giving rise to many of the churches
in the global South that have come to the forefront in world
Christianity. The essays in this work deal chiefly with Britain,
though a few place the British movement in a world setting. Because
Evangelicals on both sides of the Atlantic interacted, reading much
of the same literature and visiting each other, there was a great
deal of common ground between the British and American movements.
Hence many of the topics covered here relate to developments
mirrored in the American churches over the last three centuries.
The two volumes of The Evangelical Quadrilateral address different
aspects of the Evangelical movement. The first volume deals with
issues in the movement as a whole, and the second volume examines
features of particular denominational bodies within Evangelicalism.
Each volume contains an introductory essay reviewing recent
literature in the field, and then a series of related essays.
Volume 2, The Denominational Mosaic of the British Gospel Movement,
turns to the movement's component parts. The essays cover such
representative areas as the Islington Conference's influence in
setting out the public stance of Anglican Evangelicals, the
doctrine and spirituality of the Methodists, the Baptists in
Britain in light of Nathan Hatch's thesis about the democratization
of American Christianity, the role of the (so-called Plymouth)
Brethren in world Evangelicalism, and the charismatic renewal that
transformed church life in the postwar world. This second volume
therefore brings out the wide range of denominations in the
Evangelical mosaic.
In this concise volume, historian David Bebbington offers a summary
of various theories of history from ancient times down to the
present. Patterns in History provides Christian students of history
with a trusted guidein what Mark Noll has described as "the best
evangelical introduction to the history of history writing." The
updated and expanded fourth edition contains a new chapter on
postmodern history, making an already important book even more
essential. Bebbington begins by asking "what is history?" He
organizes his answer, and the book, around the interplay between
history as the historical process (how it has been understood and
interpreted in the past) and historiography (the account of the
past written by historians). In six chapters Bebbington describes
and evaluates each of what he identifies as the main schools of
thought about the nature and meaning of the historical process:
cyclical history, Christian history, the idea of progress,
historicism, Marxist history, and postmodern history. Bebbington
analyzes theories of historiography before returning to the
question of meaning in history. He argues that Christianity offers
scholarly, as well as religious, answers to questions and
contradictions that abound in both areas. By assessing how the
Christian philosophy of history parallels, informs, and corrects
secular theories, Bebbington suggests a chastened way forward for
Christian historians. Even as they must acknowledge and wrestle
with the complexities of the human story, Christian historians come
to the task with an understanding of history as the realm of
providence and purpose. Whether that conviction is implicit or
explicit in the historian's writing, it is the distinctive element
of faithful historical analysis.
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