A Short History of Global Evangelicalism
Cambridge University Press, 4/30/2012
EAN 9780521769457, ISBN10: 0521769450
Hardcover, 320 pages, 23.1 x 15.5 x 2.3 cm
Language: English
This book offers an authoritative overview of the history of evangelicalism as a global movement, from its origins in Europe and North America in the first half of the eighteenth century to its present-day dynamic growth in Africa, Asia, Latin America and Oceania. Starting with a definition of the movement within the context of the history of Protestantism, it follows the history of evangelicalism from its early North Atlantic revivals to the great expansion in the Victorian era, through to its fracturing and reorientation in response to the stresses of modernity and total war in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It describes the movement's indigenization and expansion toward becoming a multicentered and diverse movement at home in the non-Western world that nevertheless retains continuity with its historic roots. The book concludes with an analysis of contemporary worldwide evangelicalism's current trajectory and the movement's adaptability to changing historical and geographical circumstances.
Preface
1. Understanding evangelicalism
2. 'The surprising work of God'
origins to 1790s
3. Volunteering for the kingdom
1790s to 1840s
4. The kingdom enlarged and contested
1840s to 1870s
5. A new global spiritual unity
1870s to 1914
6. Fighting wars and engaging modernity
1900s to 1945
7. Towards global trans-denominationalism
1945 to 1970s
8. 'The actual arithmetic'
a survey of contemporary global evangelicalism
9. Localism and transnationality
1970s to 2010
10. Conclusion.