Bøger af David Ceri Jones

An essential reference guide for students of Welsh History and Religious Studies in Wales, an impressive selection of academics, teachers and religious experts map out, for the first time, the religious multiplicity and diversity of Wales.

This volume makes a significant contribution to the 'history of ecclesiastical histories', with a fresh analysis of historians of evangelicalism from the eighteenth century to the present. It explores the ways in which their scholarly methods and theological agendas shaped their writings.

The volume provides an authoritative and state-of-the-art review of current scholarship on the history of evangelicalism, and maps the territory for future research.

The Elect Methodists is the first full-length academic study of Calvinistic Methodism, a movement that emerged in the eighteenth century as an alternative to the better known Wesleyan grouping. While the branch of Methodism led by John Wesley has received significant historical attention, Calvinistic Methodism, especially in England, has not. The book charts the sources of the eighteenth-century Methodist revival in the context of Protestant evangelicalism emerging in continental Europe and colonial North America, and then proceeds to follow the fortunes in both England and Wales of the Calvinistic branch, to the establishing of formal denominations in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

An important contribution to the understanding of twentieth-century Anglicanism and evangelicalism