Gordon Rupp, a historian and one of the leading figures in Methodism in the twentieth century, recognized the pressing theological questions posed by modern evangelicalism. He identified in the Evangelical Revival “the evident fruit of the Spirit in times and places which make nonsense of the older rigid categories of orthodoxy.” He also drew attention to the need for an ecclesiology to make sense of this, arguing that “if … there is in this story indeed the record of a work of God, then the full