From awakening to secession : radical evangelicals in Switzerland and Britain, 1815-35 / / Timothy C.F. Stunt

• Autore: Stunt Timothy C. F.
• Pubblicazione: Edinburgh : , : T&T Clark, , 2000
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (417 p.)
• Disciplina: 270.82
• Soggetto topico: Evangelicalism - Great Britain; Evangelicalism - Switzerland
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Contents; List of Maps; Preface; 1 Introduction: A Century of Reason and Revolution; Prophets, Pietists and Moravians; The anxieties of the ''Enlightenment''; Rousseau and Pietism: a Romantic ally?; The impact of revolution and war; 2 The Genevan Réveil; Geneva: November 1816; The Moravian cradle; British visitors and a new church; Opposition; Problems of ecclesiastical identity; 3 The Réveil in the Canton of Vaud; The Vaudois context; Foreign visitors and rural piety; The Genevan impact; Persecution; 4 Awakenings in the Canton of Berne; Ami Bost in the Bernese Jura ; The possibility of secession Repercussions in Bern and Geneva; 5 The Impact of the Swiss Réveil in Britain; Traditional evangelical perspectives; Radical aspirations: Drummond, Wolff and Irving; British evangelicals in Switzerland; Swiss visitors; 6 Radical Missionary Perspectives; The early development of A. N. Groves; The Church Missionary Society and its volunteers; Swiss missionary recruits in London; Irving and the Albury circle; Wolff, Groves and Persia; 7 Ecclesiastical Radicals in Ireland; The Irish predicament: faithful remnant or heralds with a mission?; Churchmen and evangelicals ; Moderation and zeal in County Wicklow John Darby and the ''Irish Reformation''; Earnest dissatisfaction: Darby, Bellett, Parnell and Pope; Some ''evangelical malcontents''; 8 Pre-Tractarian Oxford; The changing University; The Oxford evangelical scene; Pre-Tractarian radicals: Bulteel, Newton and Wigram; Pre-Tractarian radicals: the Newman brothers, Trower and Golightly; Irish impressions: Joseph Philpot and Frank Newman; Uncertainties and ambiguities; The beginnings of rigorist division; 9 Scottish Parallels; Thomas Chalmers and St Andrews ; Swiss connections and Erskine''s ''experimental faith ''Expectations on Clydeside and Scottish reactions; 10 Crisis and Division: 1831-32; Tensions in the Bible Society; Enthusiasts and moderates in London; Confrontations in Oxford; Prophesyings in London; The calling of apostles and some sympathetic responses; Reluctant seceders in Ireland; Secession and a protest against it; 11 New Beginnings and a Swiss Response; Dilemmas facing seceders; Hesitancy in Plymouth; An ecclesiastical identity emerges; Links with Bath and Salcombe; Brethren in Plymouth and Geneva: mutual appreciation ; Switzerland: the movement comes full circle Epilogue; Appendix A: The Fry Collection; Appendix B: The Conversion of Henry Bellenden Bulteel; List of Abbreviations; Select Bibliography; Contemporary Newspapers and Journals; Unpublished or Rare Sources; Academic Theses and Dissertations; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: A major study of the impact of the Swiss RTveil (Awakening) on British evangelicals in the 1820's. This book provides an important synthesis of a variety of tendencies and movements which have usually been treated and understood as separate. By resisting the temptation to read back into the 1820's the partisan labels of later decades, Timothy Stunt rediscovers the common ground which was shared by a wide spectrum of Christians who were later seen as mutually hostile. The author considers the influence of the Awakening on radical attitudes to mission and ecclesiastical radicalism in Ireland...
• Titolo autorizzato: From awakening to secession
• ISBN: 0-567-30589-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910464293703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II