Making Evangelical History by Andrew Atherstone, David Ceri J... - 9780367786489

Making Evangelical HistoryFaith, Scholarship and the Evangelical Past\nAuthor(s): Andrew Atherstone, David Ceri Jones\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367786489, 978-0367786489\nSynopsis\nThis volume makes a significant contribution to the history of ecclesiastical histories, with a fresh analysis of historians of evangelicalism from the eighteenth century to the present. It explores the ways in which their scholarly methods and theological agendas shaped their writings. \n\nEach chapter presents a case study in evangelical historiography. Some of the historians and biographers examined here were ministers and missionaries, while others were university scholars. They are drawn from Anglican, Baptist, Congregationalist, Methodist, Presbyterian, Fundamentalist and Pentecostal denominations. Their histories cover not only transatlantic evangelicalism, but also the spread of the movement across China, Africa, and in.