’I was filled with a pining desire to see Christ's own words in the Bible. . . . I got along to the window where my Bible was and I opened it and . . . every leaf, line, and letter smiled in my face.’ —The Spiritual Travels of Nathan Cole, 1765
From its earliest days, Christians in the movement known as evangelicalism have had ’a particular regard for the Bible, ’ to borrow a phrase from David Bebbington, the historian who framed its most influential definition. But this ’biblicism’ has taken many different forms from the 1730s to the 2020s. How has the eternal Word of God been received across various races, age groups, genders, nations, and eras?
This collection of historical studies focuses on evangelicals' defining uses—and abuses—of Scripture, from Great Britain to the Global South, from the high pulpit to the Sunday School classroom, from private devotions to public causes.
Contributors:
– David Bebbington, University of Stirling
– Kristina Benham, Baylor University
– Catherine Brekus, Harvard Divinity School
– Malcolm Foley, Truett Seminary
– Bruce Hindmarsh, Regent College, Vancouver
– Thomas S. Kidd, Baylor University
– Timothy Larsen, Wheaton College
– K. Elise Leal, Whitworth University
– John Maiden, The Open University, UK
– Mark A. Noll, University of Notre Dame
– Mary Riso, Gordon College
– Brian Stanley, University of Edinburgh
– Jonathan Yeager, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
Innehållsförteckning
Introduction, Thomas S. Kidd
Part One: The Eighteenth Century
1. British Exodus, American Empire: Evangelical Preachers and the Biblicisms of Revolution, Kristina Benham
2. Lectio Evangelica: Figural Interpretation and Early Evangelical Bible Reading, Bruce Hindmarsh
3. Faith, Free Will, and Biblical Reasoning in the Thought of Jonathan Edwards and John Erskine, Jonathan Yeager
Part Two: The Nineteenth Century
4. ’Young People Are Actually Becoming Accurate Bible Theologians’: Children’s Bible Culture in Early Nineteenth-Century America, K. Elise Leal
5. Missouri, Denmark Vesey, Biblical Proslavery, and a Crisis for Sola Scriptura , Mark A. Noll
6. Josephine Butler’s Mystic Vision and her Love for the Jesus of the Gospels, Mary Riso
Part Three: The Twentieth Century
7. The Bible Crisis of British Evangelicalism in the 1920s, David Bebbington
8. Liberal Evangelicals and the Bible, Timothy Larsen
9. ’The Only Way to Stop a Mob’: Francis Grimké’s Biblical Case for Lynching Resistance, Malcolm Foley
10. ’As at the beginning’: Charismatic Renewal and the Reanimation of Scripture in Britain and New Zealand in the ’long’ 1960s, John Maiden
Part Four: Into the Twenty-First Century
11. The American Patriot’s Bible: Evangelicals, the Bible, and American Nationalism, Catherine A. Brekus
12. The Evangelical Christian Mind in History and Global Context, Brian Stanley
Acknowledgements, Thomas S. Kidd
Contributors
General Index
Scripture Index
Om författaren
Timothy Larsen is Mc Manis Professor of Christian Thought at Wheaton College, an Honorary Fellow in the School of Divinity at Edinburgh University, and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. He has written eight books, including A People of One Book: The Bible and the Victorians, and edited a dozen volumes, including most recently The Oxford Handbook of Christmas.
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