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The Rise of Evangelicalism: The Age of Edwards, Whitefield and the Wesleys is unavailable, but you can change that!

This inaugural book, in a series that charts the course of English-speaking evangelicalism over the last 300 years, offers a multinational narrative of the origin, development and rapid diffusion of evangelical movements in their first two generations. Theology, hymnody, gender, warfare, politics and science are all taken into consideration. But the focus is on the landmark individuals, events...

Already in the English Middle Ages the adjective ‘evangelical’ was being used in various ways: for example, to describe the message about salvation in Jesus, to designate the New Testament that contained this message and to single out specifically the four Gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke and John) in which the life, death and resurrection of Jesus are portrayed.4 Along with these usages, medieval students of the Bible regularly referred to the Old Testament book of Isaiah as ‘the evangelical prophet’,
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