Beschreibung:
This volume makes a significant contribution to the 'history of ecclesiastical histories', with a fresh analysis of historians of evangelicalism from the eighteenth century to the present. It explores the ways in which their scholarly methods and theological agendas shaped their writings.
Introduction: Towards a History of Evangelical Histories 1 John Gillies and the Evangelical Revivals 2 Erasmus Middleton's Biographia Evangelica 3 Dissent and Religious Liberty in David Bogue and James Bennett's History of Dissenters 4 J. C. Ryle and Evangelical Churchmanship 5 Luke Tyerman and the History of Early Methodism 6 Geraldine Guinness Taylor and the Histories of the China Inland Mission 7 G. R. Balleine and the Evangelical Party 8 Arnold Dallimore: Whitefield's Champion 9 Iain H. Murray and the Rise and Fall of British Evangelicalism 10 Ogbu Kalu and African Pentecostalism 11 Timothy L. Smith, George Marsden, David Bebbington and Anglo-American Evangelicalism 12 Andrew Walls, Brian Stanley, Dana Robert, Mark Noll and Global Evangelicalism