Routledge Research Companion to the History of Evangelicalism

Evangelicalism, an inter-denominational religious movement that has grown to become one of the most pervasive expressions of world Christianity in the early twenty-first century, had its origins in the religious revivals led by George Whitefield, John Wesley and Jonathan Edwards in the middle decades of the eighteenth century. With its stress on the Bible, the cross of Christ, conversion and the urgency of mission, it quickly spread throughout the Atlantic world and then became a global phenomenon. Over the past three decades evangelicalism has become the focus of considerable historical research. This research companion brings together a team of leading scholars writing broad-ranging and research-led chapters on the key themes in the history of evangelicalism. The volume provides an authoritative and state-of-the-art review of current scholarship, and maps the territory for future research. Arranged thematically, with individual chapters spread across the eighteenth, nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first centuries, this companion reflects the full range of denominational differences and various national expressions that have made up the evangelical movement over time. Although considerable attention is paid to English-speaking evangelicalism, the volume is genuinely transnational in its scope. The historical approach of this companion, as well as its global reach, will make this volume a unique and invaluable resource for scholars and students alike worldwide; particularly those in the UK, North America, South-East Asia and Australia.

Andrew Atherstone is tutor in history and doctrine, and Latimer research fellow, at Wycliffe Hall, University of Oxford. He is the author of Oxford’s Protestant Spy: The Controversial Career of Charles Golightly (2007) Archbishop Justin Welby: The Road to Canterbury (2013), and co-editor of Engaging with Martyn Lloyd-Jones: the Life and Legacy of ’the Doctor’ (2011) and Evangelicalism and the Church of England in the Twentieth Century: Reform, Resistance and Renewal (2014) David Ceri Jones is a lecturer in history at Aberystwyth University in Wales. He is the author of ’A Glorious Work in the World’: Welsh Methodism and the International Evangelical Revival, 1735-50 (2004) and the co-author of The Correspondence of ’Iolo Morganwg’, 1770-1826 (3 vols, 2007) and The Elect Methodists: Calvinistic Methodism in England and Wales, 1735-1811 (2012). He has recently co-edited Engaging with Martyn Lloyd-Jones: the Life and Legacy of ’the Doctor’ (2011) and Evangelicalism and Fundamentalism in the United Kingdom in the Twentieth Century (2013).