Early Evangelicalism: A Global Intellectual History, 1670–1789 - Hardcover

Ward, W. R.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521864046 ISBN 13: 9780521864046

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2006

Synopsis

Evangelicalism contributed to the great transformation of ideas in the modern world. This book represents a pioneering study of discussions within the evangelical movements from Central Europe to the American colonies about what constituted evangelical identity and of the basis of the fraternity among evangelical leaders of strikingly different backgrounds. Through a global study of the major figures and movements in the early evangelical world, W. R. Ward aims to show that down through the eighteenth century the evangelical elite had coherent answers to the general intellectual problems of their day and that piety as well as the enlightenment was a significant motor of intellectual change. However, as the century wore on the evangelicals lost the ability to state a broad intellectual setting for their case, and when they entered on their period of greatest social influence in the nineteenth century their former cohesion disintegrated into acute partisan wrangling.

About this title

Book Description:

Evangelicalism contributed to the great transformation of ideas in the modern world. In this 2006 investigation, through a global study of the major figures and movements in the early evangelical world, Professor Ward traces the discussions from Central Europe to the American colonies about the nature of evangelical identity.

About the Author:

W. R. Ward is Emeritus Professor of Modern History at the University of Durham. His recent publications include The Protestant Evangelical Awakening (1992) and Christianity under the Ancien Regime (1999).

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0521864046
• ISBN 13: 9780521864046
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 228