THE GLOBAL DIFFUSION OF EVANGELICALISM
The age of Billy Graham and John Stott
By Brian Stanley. IVP. 288 pages. £19.99
ISBN 978 1 844 746 217
I snapped up a copy of this, the final volume in IVP’s ‘History of Evangelicalism’ series, as the credentials of the author, series and publisher made it a must-read in a field that has so far mainly been covered by biographies of the main characters, apart from the Cambridge Church History volume.
There is a masterly treatment of the spread of, and developments in, evangelicalism in the English-speaking world, which will give each of us in our local communities a wider and better grasp of what has happened in and just before our generation. It is accomplished in a remarkably short book which makes the selection of facts difficult and controversial. The swing away from conservative positions in scholarship, the bandwagon of women in pastoral/teaching ministry for all the church, the charismatic avalanche, and globalisation of evangelicalism are all well described.
