The Rise of the Laity in Evangelical Protestantism (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Lovegrove, Deryck

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This is the first comprehensive investigation into the involvement of ordinary Christian men and women in Church activities. It considers how evangelicalism has allowed the powerless to become influential in the culture and society.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. August 2003
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134485970
• Artikelnr.: 42640847

Autorenporträt

Deryck Lovegrove lectures in church history at St Mary's College, University of St. Andrews, and has written extensively on themes including the church and war, the role of the church in industrialisation, and Scottish evangelicalism. He is the author is Established Church, Sectarian People, Itinerancy and the Transformation of English Dissent, 1780-1830 (CUP, 1988).

Inhaltsangabe

Contributors Editorial Note Introduction Part I. The priesthood of all believers: from principle to practice 1. Reformers
puritans and evangelicals: the lay connection
Carl R. Trueman 2. Lay conversion and Calvinist doctrine during the English Commonwealth
Crawford Gribben 3. The Pietist laity in Germany
1675-1750: knowledge
gender
leadership
Hans Otte Part II. Lay religious activity during the Enlightenment 4. Reshaping individualism: the private Christian
eighteenth-century religion and the Enlightenment
Bruce Hindmarsh 5. A spiritual aristocracy: female patrons of religion in eighteenth-century Britain
Helen M. Jones 6. Taming the Spirit: female leadership roles in the American Awakenings
1730-1830
Marilyn J. Westerkamp Part III. Tensions surrounding an active laity 7. Lay leadership
establishment crisis and the disdain of the clergy
Deryck W. Lovegrove 8. National churches
gathered churches
and varieties of lay evangelism
1735-1859
Mark A. Noll 9. Methodist New Connexionism: lay emancipation as a denominational raison d'être
Timothy Larsen Part IV. Missions and the widening scope of priesthood 10. The missionary movement: a lay fiefdom? Andrew F. Walls 11. Industry
professionalism and mission: the placing of an emancipated laywoman
Dr Ruth Massey 1873-1963
Clyde Binfield 12. A foundation of influence: the Oxford Pastorate and elite recruitment in early twentieth-century Anglican evangelicalism
Mark Smith Part V. The church of the laity 13. 'The church itself is God's clergy': the principles and practices of the Brethren
Neil T.R. Dickson 14. Changing Baptist concepts of royal priesthood: John Smyth and Edgar Young Mullins
Malcolm B. Yarnell
III 15. The Charismatic Movement: the laicizing of Christianity? David F. Wright Index