Full name: The Rise of Evangelicalism: The Age of Edwards, Whitefield, and the Wesleys

Author: Mark A. Noll Year: 2004 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History, Religion, Non Fiction, Christianity Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780830838912 0830838910

Winner of a Christianity Today 2005 Book Award! The word evangelical is widely used and widely misunderstood. Where did evangelicals come from? What motivated them? How did their influence become so widespread throughout the world during the eighteenth century? This inaugural book, in a series that charts the course of English-speaking evangelicalism over the last 300 years, offers a multinational narrative of the origin, development and rapid diffusion of evangelical movements in their first two generations. Theology, hymnody, gender, warfare, politics and science are all taken into consideration. But the focus is on the landmark individuals, events and organizations that shaped the story of the beginnings of this vibrant Christian movement. The revivals in Britain and North America in the mid-eighteenth century proved to be foundational in the development of the movement, its ethos, beliefs and subsequent direction. In these revivals, the core commitments of evangelicals were formed that continue to this day. In this volume you will find the fascinating story of their formation, their strengths and their weaknesses, but always their dynamism. Similar books: The Story of Christianity by Justo L. Gonzalez The Old Religion in a New World by Mark A. Noll Fundamentalism and American Culture by George M. Marsden Christianity Through the Centuries by Earle E. Cairns The Reformation by Owen Chadwick The Triumph of Christianity by Rodney Stark The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind by Mark A. Noll The rise of Christianity by W. H. C. Frend The Early Church by Henry Chadwick The History of the Church by Eusebius America's God by Mark A. Noll The Christian Tradition by Jaroslav Pelikan Western Society and the Church in the Middle Ages by R. W. Southern Church History by Christopher Catherwood Revival and Revivalism by Iain H. Murray More Than a Carpenter by Josh McDowell Jesus and the Jewish Roots of the Eucharist by Brant Pitre The Cross and the Lynching Tree by James H. Cone Jesus and the Victory of God by N. T. Wright Hail, Holy Queen by Scott Hahn