When did Evangelicalism as a movement emerge?
Is it a relative newbie, as some would assert, a creation of the 1940s out of the ruins of Fundamentalism or is it even more recent, a product of the Sixties? Or does it have much older roots?
An evangelical pentagonal
One commonly-accepted analysis of Evangelicalism is that made by David W. Bebbington, and it is known as the Bebbington Quadrilateral. He essentially argues that Evangelicalism emerged in the matrix of the Evangelical Revivals of the 18th century and was marked by four main characteristics:
350 years on: the life and lyrics of Isaac Watts
‘Religion never was designed to make our pleasures less’I almost missed this anniversary and hadn’t realised that Isaac Watts …