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The Dominance of Evangelicalism: The Age of Spurgeon and Moody is unavailable, but you can change that!

This book continues a compelling series of books charting the course of English-speaking evangelicalism over the last three hundred years. Evangelical culture at the end of the nineteenth century is set against the backdrop of imperial maneuvering in Great Britain and populist uprisings in the United States. Meanwhile, the industrialized West begins to enjoy the fruits of the Industrial...

Wordsworth and Coleridge.111 An enlarged conception of faith typical of the Romantic era bound together the three developments: it was the explicit basis for faith missions; it underlay the advent hope; and it was the means by which holiness was reached. These doctrines were therefore all radical, a consequence of the permeation of the evangelical movement by fresh cultural attitudes. That was why each of them was resisted in its day as a dangerous novelty. A common characteristic of all these positions
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