| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 364 pages) |
| Contents |
Book Cover; Title; Contents; Preface; Preaching the Gospel: The Nature of Evangelical Religion; Knowledge of the Lord: The Early Evangelical Movement; A Troubling of the Water: Developments in the Early Nineteenth Century; The Growth of the Word: Evangelicals and Society in the Nineteenth Century; Holiness unto the Lord: Keswick and its Context in the Later Nineteenth Century; Walking Apart: Conservative and Liberal Evangelicals in the Early Twentieth Century; The Spirit Poured Out: Springs of the Charismatic Movement; Into a Broad Place: Evangelical Resurgence in the Later Twentieth Century |
| Summary |
Since the 1730s Evangelicalism has been an important religious tradition in Britain. It moulded society in the nineteenth century and was itself transformed by the cultural forces at work in society. 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 a |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Evangelicalism -- Great Britain -- History
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Evangelicalism
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| SUBJECT |
Great Britain -- Church history.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056609
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| Subject |
Great Britain
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| Genre/Form |
Church history
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
0415104645 |
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9780415104647 |
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0203359909 |
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9780203359907 |
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