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The Gospel in the Past: Essays on the Historiography of the Evangelical Movement

The Gospel in the Past: Essays on the Historiography of the Evangelical Movement

Bebbington, David W.

Paperback

General ChristianityHistoriography

ISBN10: 1481321390
ISBN13: 9781481321396
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Published: Apr 1 2025
Pages: 305
Weight: 0.91
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

From the dawn of their movement in the eighteenth century, evangelicals composed narratives of the revivals that were drawing in large numbers of new converts. As evangelicals continued to write about the achievements of their heroes at home and abroad, tensions between their theological purposes and the historical nature of their writings began to emerge, particularly as history developed into a professional academic discipline. Words praising the Lord's doings in the past might seem out of place in scholarly discourse. Non-evangelicals, recognizing the importance of the movement, added to the problem by discussing it without reference to divine involvement. Theology and history found themselves opposed to one another in accounts of the evangelical past. Was the evangelical movement to be seen as an expression of divine activity or of human culture? If it was to be seen as both, how was its Christian content related to its contexts?

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