Dictionary Of Evangelical Biography, 1730-1860 (2 vol set) [Hardcover]

Donald M. Lewis (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 31, 2004

The Dictionary of Evangelical Biography will help broaden your perspective on the players in the English-speaking world’s evangelical movement during the first 150 years of its development.

This "who’s who" directory features 3,570 biographies of English-speaking evangelical figures from every continent. Researched and written by 344 historians from around the world, this wide-ranging text explores even minor evangelical figures whose biographies are found in no other modern work.

It describes individuals from a wide array of denominational backgrounds, including Adventist, Anglican, Baptist, Brethren, Catholic, Church of Scotland, Congregational, Episcopal, Free, Lutheran, Mennonite, Methodist, Moravian, Presbyterian, Quaker, Reformed, Wesleyan, and more.

This edition includes an index of subjects arranged by country and denomination and provides resources for further study of individuals associated with the evangelical movement of 1730–1860.

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

Donald M. Lewis is a specialist in the history of evangelicalism in Victorian Britain.He serves as Professor of Church History and Dean of Faculty at Regent College in Vancouver, Canada.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 1265 pages
• Publisher: Hendrickson Pub (August 31, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1565639359
• ISBN-13: 978-1565639355
• Product Dimensions: 10.3 x 8.3 x 3.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.7 pounds
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,207,145 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Donald M. Lewis is an historian specializing in the study of Evangelical Christianity. He holds a doctorate from the University of Oxford and currently is professor of Church History at Regent College, a graduate school of Christian Studies affiliated with the University of British Columbia, in Vancouver, Canada. His first book Lighten Their Darkness: the Evangelical Mission to Working-Class London, 1828-1860 (Greenwood Press, 1985; republished in 2001 by Paternoster) is a ground-breaking work that focuses on popular religion in the Victorian slums. He worked for ten years as the editor of the two-volume Blackwell Dictionary of Evangelical Biography (Oxford: Blackwell, 1995 republished in 2005 by Hendrickson). In addition he is the editor of several collections including the award-winning Christianity Reborn: the Global Expansion of Evangelicalism in the Twentieth Century (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2005). His most recent work is The Origins of Christian Zionism: Lord Shaftesbury and Evangelical Support for a Jewish Homeland (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009). Professor Lewis is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in England.