The Rise of the Laity in Evangelical Protestantism

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
List of contributors......Page 12
Editorial note......Page 14
Introduction......Page 16
The priesthood of all believers: from principle to practice......Page 30
Reformers, puritans and evangelicals: the lay connection......Page 32
Lay conversion and Calvinist doctrine during the English Commonwealth......Page 51
The Pietist laity in Germany, 1675  1750: knowledge, gender, leadership......Page 62
Lay religious activity during the Enlightenment......Page 80
Reshaping individualism: the private Christian, eighteenth-century religion and the Enlightenment......Page 82
A spiritual aristocracy: female patrons of religion in eighteenth-century Britain......Page 100
Taming the Spirit: female leadership roles in the American Awakenings, 1730  1830......Page 110
Tensions surrounding an active laity......Page 130
Lay leadership, establishment crisis and the disdain of the clergy......Page 132
National churches, gathered churches, and varieties of lay evangelicalism, 1735  1859......Page 149
Methodist New Connexionism: lay emancipation as a denominational raison d'tre......Page 168
Missions and the widening scope of priesthood......Page 180
The missionary movement: a lay fiefdom?......Page 182
Industry, professionalism and mission: the placing of an emancipated laywoman, Dr Ruth Massey 1873  1963......Page 202
A foundation of influence: the Oxford Pastorate and elite recruitment in early twentieth-century Anglican evangelicalism......Page 217
The church of the laity......Page 230
'The church itself is God's clergy': the principles and practices of the Brethren......Page 232
Changing Baptist concepts of royal priesthood: John Smyth and Edgar Young Mullins......Page 251
The Charismatic Movement: the laicizing of Christianity?......Page 268
Index......Page 280