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Fully revised second edition of an established reference work
This is the SCM Core Text: "Modern Church History" provides an
introduction to global Christianity from 1700 to the mid 20th C.
The book aims to help students understand the processes, movements
and individuals who have contributed to making the contemporary
Christian landscape the shape it is in the 21st century.
Theologically it takes a wide and inclusive approach to provide a
balanced survey of Christianity in all its forms - Protestant,
Catholic and Orthodox. Geographically it focuses on the Christian
church in the UK, continental Europe and North America, and
examines in each location the social movements, campaigns and
campaigners, scientific and political challenges that have shaped
the Christian Church throughout the period.Beginning with the
reaction to Lutherism, it charts the rise of Pietism in Europe
throughout the late 17th and early 18th centuries, the influence of
John Wesley and the Methodists, in the UK and the 'Great Awakening'
in North America. The early chapters summarize the developments
within the Christian Church in the UK, with detailed coverage of
the English, Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish situations,
throughout the 19th Century. This is followed by a summary of the
various schools of thought to have developed through the 20th C,
including the church's reaction to the 2 world wars in Europe,
fundamentalism in the USA. The book also provides specific coverage
of the religious situation in North America throughout the modern
period covering the development of separate black churches, the
'New Evangelicalism'. It is suitable for level two as well as
introductory courses in modern church history or courses concerned
with religion, culture and society in the 18th - 20th centuries.
This is the first-ever full-length biography of Frederick Fyvie Bruce (1910–1990), one of the most influential British biblical scholars of the twentieth century.
Over his lifetime F. F. Bruce authored some fifty books and nearly two thousand articles and reviews. His career offers valuable insights into key issues that affected evangelicals from the 1950s onwards, including the relationship between academic theology and church life and the perception of evangelical scholarship within the academy at large.
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