Evangelicalism in Modern Britain: A History from the 1730s to the 1980s

Book Cover......Page 1
Half Title......Page 2
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
Preface......Page 7
EVANGELICALISM IN MODERN BRITAIN......Page 10
[1] Preaching the Gospel: The Nature of Evangelical Religion......Page 11
EVANGELICAL CHARACTERISTICS......Page 12
CONVERSIONISM......Page 15
ACTIVISM......Page 20
BIBLICISM......Page 22
CRUCICENTRISM......Page 24
THE BACKGROUND......Page 27
[2] Knowledge of the Lord: The Early Evangelical Movement......Page 30
VARIETIES OF EVANGELICALISM......Page 37
CONTINUITY WITH THE PAST......Page 44
DISCONTINUITY WITH THE REFORMED TRADITION......Page 45
THE DOCTRINE OF ASSURANCE......Page 52
THE INFLUENCE OF THE ENLIGHTENMENT......Page 60
RESISTANCE TO ENLIGHTENMENT......Page 64
ENLIGHTENMENT ASSUMPTIONS......Page 66
OPTIMISM......Page 69
MODERATE CALVINISM......Page 72
PRAGMATISM......Page 74
LITERATURE......Page 76
HUMANITARIANISM......Page 79
POLITICS......Page 81
THE RISE OF EVANGELICALISM......Page 83
[3] A Troubling of the Water: Developments in the Early Nineteenth Century......Page 85
THE STRATEGY OF MISSION......Page 86
THE REVIVAL OF CALVINISM......Page 87
EDWARD IRVING......Page 88
THE INFLUENCE OF ROMANTICISM......Page 90
MILLENARIANISM......Page 91
THE ADVENT HOPE......Page 93
VARIETIES OF PREMILLENNIALISM......Page 94
THE INSPIRATION OF SCRIPTURE......Page 96
BIBLICAL LITERALISM......Page 98
TOWARDS FUNDAMENTALISM......Page 99
SUPERNATURAL INTERVENTION......Page 100
DOCTRINAL REFORMULATION......Page 102
HIGH CHURCHMANSHIP......Page 104
CHURCH AND DISSENT......Page 107
A DEFENSIVE POSTURE......Page 108
ANTI-CATHOLICISM......Page 110
AN OUTLOOK OF PESSIMISM......Page 112
[4] The Growth of the Word: Evangelicals and Society in the Nineteenth Century......Page 115
THE 1851 RELIGIOUS CENSUS......Page 117
SOCIAL CLASS......Page 119
NON-CHURCHGOING......Page 122
REVIVALISM......Page 124
METHODS OF EVANGELISM......Page 127
PHILANTHROPY......Page 130
EDUCATION......Page 133
SOCIAL PRESSURES......Page 135
ATTRACTIONS OF CHURCHGOING......Page 137
A STYLE OF LIVING......Page 139
PRESSURE FOR REFORM......Page 142
INTELLECTUAL ACHIEVEMENT......Page 147
THE DECAY OF EVANGELICAL ASCENDANCY......Page 151
THEOLOGICAL CHANGE......Page 153
THE IMPACT OF HIGH CHURCHMANSHIP......Page 156
THE EVANGELICAL CENTURY......Page 159
[5] Holiness unto the Lord: Keswick and its Context in the Later Nineteenth Century......Page 161
THE METHODIST HOLINESS TRADITION......Page 163
QUAKER SPIRITUALITY......Page 165
BRETHREN TEACHING......Page 167
THE MILDMAY CIRCLE......Page 169
THE REVIVALIST BACKGROUND......Page 171
THE AMERICAN INFLUENCE......Page 174
THE CULTURAL CONTEXT......Page 175
A ROMANTIC MOVEMENT......Page 177
OVERCOMING THE CALVINIST CRITIQUE......Page 178
REMODELLING THE METHODIST TRADITION......Page 181
AFFINITIES OF HOLINESS......Page 183
THE BRITISH HOLINESS MOVEMENT......Page 186
[6] Walking Apart: Conservative and Liberal Evangelicals in the Early Twentieth Century......Page 190
THE RISE OF BIBLICAL CRITICISM......Page 193
OPPOSITION TO BIBLICAL CRITICISM......Page 195
VERBAL INSPIRATION AND INERRANCY......Page 197
THE CHRISTIAN HOPE......Page 200
HEIGHTENED SPIRITUALITY......Page 203
BROADENING THEOLOGY......Page 207
RISING CHURCHMANSHIP......Page 211
SCIENCE AND RELIGION......Page 216
THE USE OF LEISURE......Page 217
THE SOCIAL GOSPEL......Page 220
THE GREAT REVERSAL......Page 223
FUNDAMENTALIST CONTROVERSIES......Page 225
MODERATION......Page 229
THE ANATOMY OF CONSERVATIVE EVANGELICALISM......Page 232
THE INTERWAR DIVERGENCE......Page 235
[7] The Spirit Poured Out: Springs of the Charismatic Movement......Page 237
CHARISMATIC ORIGINS......Page 239
THE RISE OF CULTURAL MODERNISM......Page 241
THE OXFORD GROUP......Page 242
SELF-EXPRESSION......Page 243
COMMUNITY AND LIFESTYLE......Page 245
ORGANISATION AND AUTHORITY......Page 246
THE CHARISMATIC STYLE......Page 248
INSIGHT AND EXPERIENCE......Page 250
COMMUNITY AND CREATIVITY......Page 251
STRUCTURE AND AUTHORITY......Page 252
SUPPORT FOR THE CHARISMATIC MOVEMENT......Page 253
CHARISMATICS AND EVANGELICALS......Page 254
[8] Into a Broad Place: Evangelical Resurgence in the Later Twentieth Century......Page 257
THE RANGE OF EVANGELICAL OPINION......Page 259
LIBERALS AND CENTRISTS......Page 260
A CLIMATE OF SERIOUSNESS......Page 261
THE ECUMENICAL MOVEMENT......Page 263
CONSERVATIVE EVANGELICAL STRENGTHS......Page 265
THE REALM OF SCHOLARSHIP......Page 267
REFORMED AND SECTARIAN WINGS......Page 269
INTO THE WORLD......Page 271
GROWING PAINS......Page 275
LOOKING TO THE FUTURE......Page 278
[9] Time and Chance: Evangelicalism and Change......Page 279
ABBREVIATIONS USED IN THE NOTES......Page 285
CHAPTER 1: PREACHING THE GOSPEL......Page 286
CHAPTER 2: KNOWLEDGE OF THE LORD......Page 291
CHAPTER 4: THE GROWTH OF THE WORD......Page 317
CHAPTER 5: HOLINESS UNTO THE LORD......Page 331
CHAPTER 6: WALKING APART......Page 339
CHAPTER 7: THE SPIRIT POURED OUT......Page 350
CHAPTER 8: INTO A BROAD PLACE......Page 356
CHAPTER 9: TIME AND CHANCE......Page 361
Index......Page 363