Making Evangelical History: Faith, Scholarship and the Evangelical Past
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University of Oxford
- Unit of assessment
- 31 - Theology and Religious Studies
- Output identifier
- 3007
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- B - Edited book
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10.4324/9781315581231
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- Routledge
- ISBN
- 9781472466280
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- Month of publication
- April
- Year of publication
- 2019
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Number of additional authors
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1
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- Additional information
- This edited volume makes a significant contribution to the study of “the history of histories”, a bourgeoning research field. It provides a dozen deeply-researched case studies in evangelical historiography from the eighteenth century to the early twenty-first century. The range of subjects deliberately contrasts the work of popular evangelical biographers, who emphasized spiritual edification, with more recent professional historians who have produced monographs for the academy. The subjects are drawn from Anglican, Baptist, Congregationalist, Methodist, Presbyterian, Fundamentalist and Pentecostal denominations. Their histories cover not only transatlantic evangelicalism, but also the global spread of the movement especially across China and Africa – including, for example, Geraldine Guinness Taylor (official biographer of the China Inland Mission, a female pioneer within evangelical historiography) and Ogbu Kalu (Nigerian scholar and specialist on African religion).
Atherstone first conceived the volume at the Ecclesiastical History Society’s golden jubilee conference on “The Church and its Past” in 2011, chaired in Oxford by Professor Sarah Foot, which demonstrated that evangelicalism was a major lacuna in the scholarly literature. This volume therefore breaks much new ground, and as co-editor Atherstone drove the project forward from conception and design through to final production. As well as editing all contributions and co-writing the introduction, he contributed two chapters which analyze the use of history by J.C. Ryle (9,300 words) and G.R. Balleine (11,800 words). The chapter on Balleine was first published as a peer-reviewed journal article in the Journal of Anglican Studies vol. 12 (May 2014). The research for Atherstone’s own chapters draws upon a wide array of primary sources such as religious tracts, newspapers, journals, and parish magazines, plus manuscript collections at Birmingham University’s Cadbury Research Library, Church Society Archives, Lambeth Palace Library, London Metropolitan Archives, Pusey House Archives, and the Société Jersiaise Archives.
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