British Evangelical Identities Past and Present, Volume 1 - Paperback

by Mark Smith (Editor)

The nature of evangelical identity in Britain is both a perennial issue and an urgent one. This is especially the case because evangelical Christianity has, throughout its history, been characterized by a remarkable degree of dynamism and diversity. These essays, by a distinguished list of contributors, explore the issue of evangelical identity and the nature of evangelical diversity by investigating the interactions of evangelicalism with national and denominational identities, race and gender, and its expression in spirituality and culture from the evangelical revivals of the eighteenth century to evangelical churches and movements of the present. A second volume will investigate similar issues in relation to evangelical interactions with the Bible and theology. Contributors: Rob Ambler, Andrew Atherstone, Kristin Aune, David W. Bebbington, David Goodhew, John Harvey, Andrew R. Holmes, David Ceri Jones, Ian Jones, Rachel Jordan, David Killingray, Ian Randall, Mark Smith, Brian Talbot, Peter Webster, Martin Wellings, and Eryn White.

Author Biography

Mark Smith is University Lecturer in Local and Social History at the University of Oxford. He is the author of Religion in Industrial Society: Old and Saddleworth 1740-1865 (1994). Doing the Duty of the Parish: Surveys of the Church in Hampshire 1810 (2004), and editor, with Stephen Taylor, of Evangelicalism in the Church of England c.1790-c.1900 (2004).