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

W. R. Ward (Author)

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ISBN-10: 0521864046 | ISBN-13: 978-0521864046 | Publication Date: September 25, 2006

Evangelicalism contributed to the great transformation of ideas in the modern world. This 2006 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.

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"In his path-breaking book Early Evangelicalism: A Global Intellectual History, 1670-1789, Ward offers a bold new geneolopgy of evangelicalism that transforms our understanding of its intellectual roots...it is one of the most ambitious books about evangelicalism ever written."
Catherine A. Brekus, Books and Culture

"Ward's comand of primary sources is impressive...the scholarship is admirable...Early Evangelicalism is a valuable resource." --Religious Studies Review

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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.

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• Hardcover: 226 pages
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press (September 25, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0521864046
• ISBN-13: 978-0521864046
• Product Dimensions: 8.6 x 6.1 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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4.0 out of 5 stars Early Evangelicalism: A Global Intellectual History, 1670-1789 (Hardcover), January 8, 2008

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W. R. Ward's newest volume takes his monumental study in[[ASIN:0521892325 The Protestant Evangelical Awakening] and moves its intellectyual journey into the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century. He traces the intellectual histoiry both on the continent and the English Speaking Worlds. He makes especially significant contributions in the interaction between Lutheran and Reformed Pietists. Most hilstorical studies deal almost entirely with the Eglish-speaking world. The reaction to Systematic theology on the part of Pietists reveals some of the rots of its decline. Ward could have strengthened his work if he had given adequate space to the open theology of Augustine and Luther in additional to the closed theological System of Aristotle an Aquinas. The book, despite its high price is a most important contribution.