Lots of interesting books coming out of IVP at the moment. One of them includes the following in the blurb:
David Bebbington's Evangelicalism in Modern Britain: A History from the 1730s to the 1980s, published in 1989, offered an intriguing hypothesis regarding the genesis of this movement. He argued that evangelical religion had emerged as a substantially new entity through trans-Atlantic evangelical revival in the 1730s, and had taken a collaborative rather than antithetical stance towards the Enlightenment. In both respects, Bebbington distanced himself from older interpretations that had held the opposite view. (Source)
I wonder if Bebbington is right or not....
Anyway, I can't stop, I should be writing an essay on Land Law.
I'm looking forward to reading that one too... Just been listening to a series by Don Carson on evangelism to postmoderns and realised how deeply ingrained modernism is in some evangelical thought.
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