The evangelical revival of the eighteenth century was a renewal movement of international proportions. David Ceri Jones offers a lively, accessible and informative introduction to its roots and main events, personalities and ideas, and assesses its wider impact.

David Jones

Preface

Prologue: ‘A heart strangely warmed’

Notes

1 Heart religion: the background to the evangelical revivals

Origins of the evangelical revivals

Protestantism in crisis

Revival stirrings

2 ‘The wonderful works of God’: Whitefield, Wesley and the English revival

The 'boy parson': George Whitefield

The emergence of John Wesley and the splintering of the revival

What was early Methodism like?

The creation of a Wesleyan Methodist movement

The boistrous Calvinistic Methodists

3 ‘A glorious morn’: the ‘Celtic’ revivals

'A glorious morn' in Wales

The growth of a Welsh Methodist movement

Evangelical resurgence in Wales

Evangelicals in Scotland

Revival at Cambuslang

A Scottish evangelical movement?

Revival in Ireland

4 ‘All the world is growing religious’: the Great Awakening in America

George Whitefield and the creation of a 'Great Awakening'

New England ablaze

True and false revival

The expansion and diversification of American evangelicalism

Revival and revolution

5 ‘As the waters cover the sea’: the impact of the evangelical revivals

Revival and growth

Evangelical Anglicanism

Education and moral reform

The abolition of the slave trade

Overseas mission

6 Conclusion: ‘The evangelical century’

An evangelical revival timeline

Christianity in the eighteenth century

Introductions to evangelicalism

Pietism

The evangelical revival in England

The 'Celtic' revivals

The Great Awakening in America

Evangelical activism

Evangelicalism in the nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first centuries

For an illuminating introduction to the birth of evangelicalism and its global impact, this is the place to begin!

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The evangelical revival of the eighteenth century was a renewal movement of international proportions. David Ceri Jones offers a lively, accessible and informative introduction to its roots and main events, personalities and ideas, and assesses its wider impact.

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