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Evangelicalism contributed to the great transformation of ideas in the modern world. This book represents a pioneering study of discussions within the evangelical movements from Central Europe to the American colonies about what constituted evangelical identity and of the basis of the fraternity among evangelical leaders of strikingly different backgrounds. Through a global study of the major figures and movements in the early Evangelical world, W. R. Ward aims to show that down through the eighteenth century the evangelical elite had coherent answers to the general intellectual problems of their day and that piety as well as the enlightenment was a significant motor of intellectual change. However, as the century wore on the evangelicals lost the ability to state a broad intellectual setting for their case, and when they entered on their period of greatest social influence in the nineteenth century their former cohesion disintegrated into acute partisan wrangling.

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• Amazon Sales Rank: #152329 in eBooks
• Published on: 2007-01-05
• Released on: 2007-01-05
• Format: Kindle Book
• Number of items: 1

Review
"In his path-breaking book Early Evangelicalism: A Global Intellectual History, 1670-1789, Ward offers a bold new geneolopgy of evangelicalism that transforms our understanding of its intellectual roots...it is one of the most ambitious books about evangelicalism ever written."
Catherine A. Brekus, Books and Culture

About the Author
W. R. Ward is Emeritus Professor of Modern History at the University of Durham. His recent publications include The Protestant Evangelical Awakening (1992) and Christianity under the Ancien Regime (1999).

Customer Reviews

Early Evangelicalism: A Global Intellectual History, 1670-1789 (Hardcover)
W. R. Ward's newest volume takes his monumental study in[[ASIN:0521892325 The Protestant Evangelical Awakening] and moves its intellectyual journey into the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century. He traces the intellectual histoiry both on the continent and the English Speaking Worlds. He makes especially significant contributions in the interaction between Lutheran and Reformed Pietists. Most hilstorical studies deal almost entirely with the Eglish-speaking world. The reaction to Systematic theology on the part of Pietists reveals some of the rots of its decline. Ward could have strengthened his work if he had given adequate space to the open theology of Augustine and Luther in additional to the closed theological System of Aristotle an Aquinas. The book, despite its high price is a most important contribution.