The Expansion of Evangelicalism: The Age of Wilberforce, More, Chalmers and Finney Volume 2

by John Wolffe

Book Overview

At the beginning of the nineteenth century the village of Clapham in Surrey still enjoyed a sense of distance from the bustle of London. There the group of evangelicals who would come to be known as the Clapham Sect regularly gathered. William Wilberforce, leader of a long campaign against the slave trade, commiserated with the other inheritors of the fledgling British evangelical movement, now in its second, more politically and culturally savvy...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0830825827
• ISBN13: 9780830825820
• Release Date: May 2007
• Publisher: IVP Academic
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Well written, scholarly research

This is a fine book if one wishes to understand the impact of Wilberforce, More, [in fact, many more!] and others on England, the new world, and Christianity. It may appear somewhat dry and overly scholarly to some readers, but it does a fine job of presenting what it intends to discuss as indicated in the title. The reviewer's only criticism is that it does not reference some of the best U.S. scholarship on the evangelical movement by Dr. William Ringenberg and others.