1st Edition

Evangelicalism and Dissent in Modern England and Wales

Edited By David Bebbington, David Ceri Jones Copyright 2021
230 Pages
by Routledge

230 Pages
by Routledge

230 Pages
by Routledge

This book treads new ground by bringing the Evangelical and Dissenting movements within Christianity into close engagement with one another. While Evangelicalism and Dissent both have well established historiographies, there are few books that specifically explore the relationship between the two. Thus, this complex relationship is often overlooked and underemphasised. The volume is... Read more

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

Biography

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.