A rising tide
Subtitle: evangelical Christianity in New Zealand 1930-65
By: Stuart M. Lange
Publisher: Otago University Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Dunedin, New Zealand
Language: eng
Number of pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9781877578557
Subjects: Protestantism; Evangelicalism; History
Other titles: Evangelical Christianity in New Zealand 1930-65
Description: In New Zealand, evangelical Christianity has always played a significant role. This book explores the fascinating story of the resurgence of evangelical Protestantism in the 1950s and 60s, and its pre-war origins. The story focuses especially on evangelicals in the mainline churches, in the universities, and in evangelical organisations. It is not about fundamentalism or Pentecostalism (movements that overlap with evangelicalism, but are also different). It is about the leading personalities, and the ideas that moved them, during a period when a moderate British-style evangelicalism was paramount (though this was also the time of the Billy Graham crusades). The story of evangelical Protestantism has been extensively written about by historians in Britain and the US. This important book helps tell the New Zealand part of that story.--Cover.
Notes: "Select bibliography": pages 274-288.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Thomas Miller and friends; title: The Evangelical unions; title: William Orange and the Orange Pips; title: The IVF and a new evangelical generation; title: Anglican evangelicals 1945-55; title: Presbyterian evangelicals 1945-55; title: EU/IVF and the postwar evangelical resurgence; title: Anglican evangelicalism expands, 1956-65; title: Presbyterian evangelicalism expands, 1956-65; title: Conclusion; title: Epilogue: A glimpse of what came next.