By G.M. Ditchfield
The word-wide effect of evangelicalism has lengthy been famous as an essential strength. delivering either a transparent and available advisor to the hot literature, this advent examines the revival within the British Isles in the course of the 18th and 19th-century inside of a largely foreign context.
By investigating the character of the revival and emphasizing its hyperlink with pop culture, this research explores the centrality of faith during this interval. Posing questions this kind of "how a long way used to be the revival a chance to order?" And "what used to be its impact on society?" This paintings presents an advent to the subject for all A-level and undergraduate scholars of 18th and 19th-century British background.
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The presence of these characteristics in the early stages of the Evangelical Revival helps to explain why Dr Johnson defined Methodists in 1755 as ‘A new sect of Puritans lately arisen’. The more extreme Puritans of the seventeenth century, such as the Fifth Monarchy Men in England and the Cameronians in Scotland, were defeated militarily, but one might still ask what became of the more moderate eirenical Puritan ethos. The answer is that in terms of spirituality it continued, expressed in such works as Richard Baxter’s Call to the Unconverted and in the pastoral work of often obscure Dissenting ministers.
Alongside the High Church ancestry of English and Welsh evangelicalism, Dr Walsh has placed the spiritual legacy of seventeenth-century Puritanism. The successors to the Puritans of the Interregnum period, far from being Regicides, were for the most part moderate Presbyterians who accepted the idea of a single national church, albeit one with significant reforms to accommodate their own preferences. Failure to engineer compromise between them and the restored Anglican authorities resulted in the departure from the Church of some 2,000 clergy with Puritan sympathies between 1660 and 1662.
At the same time, the Church of England’s Scottish cousin, the Episcopalian Church, was disestablished and its bitter rival, the Presbyterian Church, became (and remains) the established church north of the border. The attendant Anglican insecurity and nervousness produced a number of national societies on a voluntary basis which had the objective of seeking to restore and enhance respect for Anglican theological and social values. Three of them are particularly relevant to evangelicalism. The Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (SPCK) was founded in 1698 by the Rector of Sheldon (Warwickshire) Thomas Bray.
