David Bebbington’s 1989 book, Evangelicalism in Modern Britain: A History from the 1730s to the 1980s, put forth the idea that evangelical religion is the result of transatlantic revival in the 1730s, and that it took a working together attitude toward the Enlightenment rather than a contradictory one. Today, Bebbington’s thesis has gained international acceptance, and scholars from Europe and North America present a review of its primary arguments and conclusions here in The Advent of Evangelicalism.Contributors include: David W. Bebbington, Joel R. Beeke, John Coffey, Timothy George, Crawford Gribben, Michael A. G. Haykin, Paul Helm, D. Bruce Hindmarsh, David Ceri Jones, Thomas S. Kidd, Timothy Larsen, Cameron A. MacKenzie, A. T. B. McGowan, D. Densil Morgan, Ashley Null, Ian J. Shaw, Kenneth J. Stewart, Douglas A. Sweeney, Garry J. Williams, and Brandon G. Withrow.
Dr. Ken Stewart is Canadian by birth and now a naturalized U.S. citizen.
He graduated from U.B.C., Vancouver with a degree in Psychology, and after a year at Regent College, Vancouver, completed theological studies at Westminster Seminary, Philadelphia (M.Div.,Th.M.). He gained the M.Phil. in Early Modern European History at the University of Waterloo, Ontario and the Ph.D. in modern church history at New College, University of Edinburgh.
Stewart is a specialist in the history of Christianity from the Reformation to the present with special emphasis on the development of the evangelical Protestant tradition. At the same time, he has a growing interest in early Christianity and the transmission of doctrine from the early church forward to our time.
He has taught at Covenant College, Lookout Mountain, Georgia, since 1997. Previously he taught 3 years at Prairie Bible College, Three Hills, AB. Canada. Earlier still, he served Presbyterian, Evangelical Free, and Christian Reformed congregations in three provinces of Canada. Now, he has ministerial standing in the Presbyterian Church in America.
At Covenant College, he teaches a two-semester theology sequence, a two-semester sequence in the history of Christianity, and a variety of elective courses in the fields of Early Modern European history and the History of Christianity since 1500.
He is married to Jane and has four grown children. He enjoys vegetable gardening and canoeing.
