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Record Nr.

UNINA9910459777903321

Titolo

Global evangelicalism : theology, history and culture in regional perspective / / edited by Donald M. Lewis and Richard V. Pierard

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Downers Grove, Illinois : , : InterVarsity Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

0-8308-9662-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (315 p.)

Disciplina

270.8/2

Soggetti

Evangelicalism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Cover""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright""; ""Dedication""; ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Introduction""; ""Part I: Theoretical Issues""; ""1. Defining Evangelicalism""; ""2. The Theological Impulse of Evangelical Expansion""; ""3. Globalization, Religion and Evangelicalism""; ""Part II: Evangelicalism ""; ""4. Europe and North America""; ""5. Africa""; ""6. Latin America""; ""7. Asia""; ""8. Australasia and the Pacific Islands""; ""Part III: Issues in Evangelical ""; ""9. Ecumenism and Interdenominationalism""; ""10. Evangelicals and Gender""; ""Glossary""; ""List of Contributors""

""Subject and Persons Index""""About the Editors""; ""More Titles from InterVarsity Press""; ""Blank Page""

Sommario/riassunto

Front-rank historians of evangelicalism gather in this introduction and overview of the surprising and dynamic global Christian movement known as evangelicalism. Its defining characteristics are discussed, its regional growth and expansion surveyed, its place in globalization weighed and its salient features sampled.