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This book treads new ground by bringing the Evangelical and Dissenting movements within Christianity into close engagement with one another.
List of contents
Introduction: Evangelicalism, Dissent and their Historians-
David Bebbington and David Ceri Jones;1 Dissent and the Origins of the Evangelical Revival-
Robert Strivens;2 George Whitefield and Dissent-
David Ceri Jones;3 Wesleyan Methodism and Nonconformity-
Martin Wellings; 4 Anglican Seceders and English Dissent, 1800-50-
Grayson Carter; 5 Congregationalists and Crucicentrism-
Timothy Larsen; 6 Feminism and the English Free Church Tradition, 1918-45-
Sarah C. Williams; 7 The Anglican Temptation? John Stott and Nonconformist Evangelicals in an Age of Secularization in England, 1945-2000-
Alister Chapman;8 A New Nonconformity: Ethnicity, Evangelicalism and Ecumenism, c. 1952-85-
John Maiden
About the author
David Bebbington is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Stirling. His publications include
Evangelicalism in Modern Britain: A History from the 1730s to the 1980s (1989),
Victorian Nonconformity (1992; second edition 2011), and as co-editor
Evangelicals: Who they Have Been, Are Now and Could Be (2019). He is currently working on a study of Victorian Wesleyan Methodism in Leeds and the Shetland Isles.
David Ceri Jones is a Reader in Early Modern History at Aberystwyth University. His most recent publications include, as co-editor,
George Whitefield: Life, Context and Legacy (2016),
The Routledge Research Companion to the History of Evangelicalism (2018), and
Making Evangelical History: Faith, Scholarship and the Evangelical Past (2019). He is currently preparing an edition of the correspondence of George Whitefield.
Summary
This book treads new ground by bringing the Evangelical and Dissenting movements within Christianity into close engagement with one another.
