The Oxford handbook of early evangelicalism
Evangelicalism is one of the most popular and diverse religious movements in the world today. The earliest evangelicals could be found among Anglicans, Baptists, Congregationalists, Methodists, Moravians, and Presbyterians throughout North America, Britain, and Western Europe and included some of th...
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Format: | eBook |
Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2022, 2022
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Series: | Oxford handbooks / Oxford handbooks
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Collection: | Oxford Handbook Online - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Summary: | Evangelicalism is one of the most popular and diverse religious movements in the world today. The earliest evangelicals could be found among Anglicans, Baptists, Congregationalists, Methodists, Moravians, and Presbyterians throughout North America, Britain, and Western Europe and included some of the foremost names of the age, such as Jonathan Edwards, John Wesley, and George Whitefield. Early evangelicals were abolitionists, historians, hymn writers, missionaries, philanthropists, poets, preachers, and theologians. They participated in the major cultural and intellectual currents of the day and founded institutions of higher education not limited to Dartmouth College, Brown University, and Princeton University |
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Item Description: | Also issued in print: 2022 |
Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
ISBN: | 9780190863340 |