A Short History of Global Evangelicalism by Mark Hutchinson

By Mark Hutchinson

This ebook bargains an authoritative review of the background of evangelicalism as a world move, from its origins in Europe and North the USA within the first half the eighteenth century to its present-day dynamic progress in Africa, Asia, Latin the USA and Oceania. beginning with a definition of the flow in the context of the historical past of Protestantism, it follows the heritage of evangelicalism from its early North Atlantic revivals to the good enlargement within the Victorian period, via to its fracturing and reorientation in accordance with the stresses of modernity and overall conflict within the past due 19th and early 20th centuries. It describes the movement's indigenization and enlargement towards turning into a multicentered and various circulate at domestic within the non-Western international that however keeps continuity with its old roots. The e-book concludes with an research of up to date around the globe evangelicalism's present trajectory and the movement's adaptability to altering ancient and geographical circumstances.

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