Dictionary of Evangelical Biography [Hardcover]

Donald Lewis (Editor)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0631173846 | ISBN-13: 978-0631173847 | Publication Date: January 17, 1996 | Edition: 1

This dictionary is a comprehensive source of biography on figures associated with the Evangelical Movement in the English-speaking world between 1730 and 1860. It consists of over 3 500 entries and represents the expertise of over 300 international historians.

Editorial Reviews

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"... this is a notable achievement that should be welcomed by scholars. The volumes are a great delight for browsing and will no doubt be invaluable for the serious researcher." First Things

"The scope of this superbly produced biographical dictionary is set out with admirable clarity by its editor, Donald M. Lewis. ... All the effort was well spent. In the future, those who ask, 'But what is evangelicalism?' should simply be directed to read through these two volumes. If after that, they don't know the answer, they never will. ... If you library doesn't already have this set on order, agitate." Books and Culture

D.W. Bebbington, University of Stirling

From the Back Cover

This dictionary is a comprehensive source of biography on figures associated with the Evangelical Movement in the English-speaking world between 1730 and 1860. It consists of over 3,500 entries and represents the expertise of over 300 international historians.

This significant period of Christian history in the West is organically related to the world-wide expansion of evangelicalism which has transformed the church in the twentieth century. The dictionary shows that in North America evangelicalism was the dominant religious influence during this period, and that in Britain evangelicalism was important both within and outside the Church of England and was responsible for some of the dominant characteristics of British society. It draws together interest in the movement on the part of historians and social scientists as well as theologians, church historians, and many concerned Christians.

Given the multiformity of the movement, the dictionary includes among the Evangelicals people who would not have recognised each other as such - Arminians and Calvinists, Churchmen and Dissenters, "Old Lights" and "New Lights". It includes not only figures of the large churches, but also representatives of small and often forgotten movements which undoubtedly derive from the same main stream as Edwards and Whitefield and the Wesleys: Sandemanians and Walkerites and members of the Teetotal Methodist Connexion.

Through its bibliographies, the dictionary charts the quantity of scholarly work devoted to the Evangelical movement, but to which no index or guide has hitherto been available.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 1280 pages
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell; 1 edition (January 17, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0631173846
• ISBN-13: 978-0631173847
• Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 8.5 x 5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7 pounds
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,470,580 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.