Date/Time
Date(s) - February 15, 2018
7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Location
Regent College Chapel
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Join us for a special evening celebrating the launch of Dr. Bruce Hindmarsh’s new book, The Spirit of Early Evangelicalism: True Religion in a Modern World (Oxford University Press).
Evangelicalism appeared as a new pattern of Christian devotion at a moment when the foundations of Anglo-American society were shifting. The Spirit of Early Evangelicalism locates the rise of evangelical religion in relation to movements that we now routinely acknowledge with capital letters: Modernity, the Scientific Revolution, and the Enlightenment. The book examines the evangelical awakening in connection with the history of science, law, art, and literature. Bruce Hindmarsh provides a fresh perspective, and presents new research, on the thought of leading figures such as John and Charles Wesley, George Whitefield, and Jonathan Edwards. Viewing devotion, culture, and ideas together, it is possible to see the advent of evangelicalism as a significant new episode in the history of Christian spirituality.