The rise of the laity in Evangelical Protestantism / / edited by Deryck W. Lovegrove

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910953922803321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London, : Routledge, 2002
• ISBN: 1-134-48597-2; 1-280-20202-5; 1-134-48598-0; 0-203-16650-7; 0-203-28166-7
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (288 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): LovegroveDeryck W
• Disciplina: 280.4
• Soggetti: Evangelicalism; Laity
• 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 and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of contributors; Editorial note; Introduction; The priesthood of all believers: from principle to practice; Reformers, puritans and evangelicals: the lay connection; Lay conversion and Calvinist doctrine during the English Commonwealth; The Pietist laity in Germany, 1675 1750: knowledge, gender, leadership; Lay religious activity during the Enlightenment; Reshaping individualism: the private Christian, eighteenth-century religion and the Enlightenment; A spiritual aristocracy: female patrons of religion in eighteenth-century Britain; Taming the Spirit: female leadership roles in the American Awakenings, 1730 1830Tensions surrounding an active laity; Lay leadership, establishment crisis and the disdain of the clergy; National churches, gathered churches, and varieties of lay evangelicalism, 1735 1859; Methodist New Connexionism: lay emancipation as a denominational raison d'tre; Missions and the widening scope of priesthood; The missionary movement: a lay fiefdom?; Industry, professionalism and mission: the placing of an emancipated laywoman, Dr Ruth Massey 1873 1963; A foundation of influence: the Oxford Pastorate and elite recruitment in early twentieth-century Anglican evangelicalismThe church of the laity; 'The church itself is God's clergy': the principles and practices of the Brethren; Changing Baptist concepts of royal priesthood: John Smyth and Edgar Young Mullins; The Charismatic Movement: the laicizing of Christianity?; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This comprehensive investigation into the involvement of ordinary Christians in Church activities and in anti-clerical dissent, explores a phenomenon stretching from Britain and Germany to the Americas and beyond. It considers how evangelicalism, as an anti-establishmentarian and profoundly individualistic movement, has allowed the traditionally powerless to become enterprising, vocal, and influential in the religious arena and in other areas of politics and culture.