Transatlantic revivalism
Subtitle: popular evangelicalism in Britain and America, 1790-1865
By: Richard Carwardine.
Series: Studies in evangelical history and thought
Publisher: Paternoster
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Bletchley, Milton Keynes; Waynesboro, Ga
Language: eng
Number of pages: 249
ISBN-13: 9781842273739
Subjects: Revivals -- United States -- History.; Revivals -- Great Britain -- History.; Evangelicalism -- United States -- History.; Evangelicalism -- Great Britain -- History.; United States -- Church history.; Great Britain -- Church history.
Description: The focus of this classic text is on British and American evangelicals during the late eighteenth century to the mid-nineteenth century, examining the effect of aggressive conversion techniques used by American evangelicals upon the revival movement. The revival tradition ultimately became orthodoxy in America; in Britain, however, it failed ever to achieve real respectability. Carwardine examines this contrast. This study focuses on those major evangelical denominations, particularly the Methodists, which in both countries provided the primary expression of evangelicalism and which gave it its cutting edge.