The Marrow Controversy (1717–1723) was a significant Scottish ecclesiastical dispute regarding the book “The Marrow of Modern Divinity.” During the controversy, Thomas Boston of Ettrick and Principal Hadow of St Mary’s College and their associates hotly debated the issues of assurance, legalism, antinomianism, and the nature and offer of the gospel. A central contention was … Read more
As has been demonstrated by Michael A. G. Haykin, friendship and personal relationships played a pivotal role in the advancement of the Particular Baptist cause in the long eighteenth century. The founding of the Baptist Missionary Society and the initial sending of William Carey depended upon a close network of personal relationships that rallied for … Read more
As Christianity shifted from one clearly defined Western center to multiple centers in the global south and east, a myriad of contextual theologies and missiologies arose. Christians have reacted to these new cultural theologies and missiologies in varying ways, ranging from wholehearted acceptance to suspicious rejection. This paper seeks to categorize these reactions by providing … Read more
The reception of Jonathan Edwards’s writings in the Netherlands has been extensive and influential since the 18th century, with the Dutch being among the first to translate his works, doing so more than any other language at the time. Edwards’s appeal in the Dutch context was facilitated by the religious and intellectual networks connecting Dutch, … Read more
Global Evangelicalism invokes the idea of the Gospel affecting the nations. Dr. Theresa Newell asks, “How have some theologians, particularly in reaction to the Holocaust, denounced mission to the Jews? How true to biblical teaching are their arguments?” Gerald Sigal, an anti-missionary Jewish author wrote, “This belief, called the Trinity, is not only diametrically opposed … Read more
This is a joint proposal. My co-author is Jacob B. Percy. In our previous work (ETS 2023), Jacob Percy and I, building upon the foundation laid by Gregg Allison (2019 article, 2021 book, 2022 online article), Gracilynn Hanson (2022 dissertation), and Jacob Percy (2023 dissertation), presented Creation Essentialism as a biblically faithful conception of gender … Read more
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) was a widely influential force for the globalization of evangelical ideas and social programs, which were enthusiastically absorbed and applied in the Australian context. Prominent among those ideas were the twin influences of evangelical holiness theology and postmillennial enthusiasm. The temperance … Read more
In endeavoring to account for the identity of global evangelicalism today, considering the usage and significance of the term “evangelicals” in various heritages of centuries past is essential to understanding the evangelical identity that followed. The designation “evangelicals” existed well before the use of the term to characterize the eighteenth-century Great Awakenings or before its … Read more
This paper investigates the doctrine of man in the writings of Carl F. H. Henry and how his approach to this doctrine served as a profound impetus for his passion to spread classic evangelicalism across the globe. Evangelicalism was reinvented in the 1940s with the birth of the neo-evangelical movement. There were many leaders involved … Read more
Evangelicalism is a movement for the protection and promotion of vital piety in the modern world, with origins in the globalising eighteenth century, and as such embodies a vision for both the world and for the individual. It offered the “power of godliness,” as revivalists would summarize it. As a movement it has successfully travelled … Read more