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How does man think?
Into the Age of Reason came the Evangelical revival through the voices of George Whitefield, John Wesley and Jonathan Edwards. Despite a societal cooling, the work of God through evangelical Preachers awakened and warmed the hearts of many. In every age, Christ’s kingdom continues to conquer.
Needham brings us close to our most recent church history and uncovers the shifts in thought that radically altered society’s relationship to reason and faith. With the Enlightenment, came a tide of social, economic, and political change that deeply affected the spiritual climate.
Featuring:
• Scientific Revolution
• Immanuel Kant: The philosopher of the Enlightenment
• The French Revolution
• Calvinist–Arminian controversy
• Presbyterianism in the Scottish Highlands
• The Great Awakening
• Russian Orthodoxy
The fifth and final volume. Academically reliable, the accessible humorous style and accompanying glossary makes church history a subject for everyone to benefit from.
“It is a brave historian who tackles the extremely challenging task of writing the 2000–year history of the church. Nick Needham has more than risen to the challenge… well worth the wait”– Michael A.G. Haykin, Professor of Church History, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
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2,000 Years of Christ’s Power, Vol. 5: The Age of Enlightenment and Awakening
Endorsements
As he assesses the European Enlightenment, evangelical revivals … and developments within Roman Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy from his consistently Reformed perspective, Needham provides illuminating reading for those who share that perspective, but perhaps even more for those who do not.
Mark A. Noll, Author of ‘America’s Book: The Rise and Decline of a Bible Civilization, 1794–1911’
Table of Contents
List of illustrations and maps .....................................8
Introduction ...............................................................9
Acknowledgements ..................................................13
Chapter 1
The Enlightenment .................................................. 15
Introduction ...............................................................17
1 The scientifi c revolution and its eff ects ...................... 19
2 Enlightenment religion ........................................... 25
3 The philosopher of the Enlightenment: Immanuel
Kant (1724–1804) ..............................................43
4 The Enlightenment and Scripture ............................ 49
5 The Enlightenment, history, and faith ....................... 55
6 The Enlightenment and politics: the French Revolution ...................61
7 A final paradox: machines and music ........................ 67
Primary Source Material ............................................. 69
Chapter 2
The Evangelical Revival in England and Wales ........ 85
Introduction: ‘Evangelical’ – what’s in a word? ................. 87
1 The Background of the Evangelical Revival in England ..........................91
2 The Beginnings of the Evangelical Revival in England ...........................101
3 Revival disrupted: the Calvinist-Arminian controversy ............................117
4 Evangelical Calvinism in England ...........................127
5 English Evangelical Arminianism ...........................159
6 The Evangelical Revival and English Dissent .............183
7 Th e Evangelical Revival and the birth of
English hymnody ..............................................195
8 Th e Evangelical Revival in Wales ............................201
9 Persecution of Methodists .....................................223
10 Consequences of the Evangelical Revival in England and Wales ............227
Primary Source Material ............................................235
Chapter 3
Scotland in the Era of the Evangelical Revival ....... 265
1 The Background of the Evangelical Revival in Scotland ...............267
2 The Evangelical Revival .........................................283
3 The Second Secession ...........................................301
4 The Jacobite Risings of 1715 and 1745 ......................305
5 The Highlands become Protestant and Presbyterian ...313
6 Scottish ‘common sense’ philosophy .........................321
Primary Source Material ............................................325
Chapter 4
The Great Awakening in America .......................... 343
Introduction .............................................................345
1 Religious background of the Awakening ...................347
2 The Great Awakening ...........................................351
3 Results of the Great Awakening ..............................387
4 A word about slavery ............................................393
Primary Historical Sources .........................................397
Chapter 5
Germany and the Lutheran Faith .......................... 425
1 Background .........................................................427
2 The Moravian movement .......................................431
3 Lutheranism’s Enlightenment genius: the life and
work of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646–1716) ...457
4 Lutheran Bible commentator: the life and work of
Johann Albrecht Bengel (1687–1752) ...................465
5 Chill Winds and Radical Response: Michaelis
and Hamann ...................................................473
6 Lutheranism in the New World ..............................483
Primary Source Material ............................................489
Chapter 6
Roman Catholicism in the Eighteenth Century ..... 503
Introduction .............................................................505
1 The pre-Revolutionary Church: Outstanding figures, achievements, and events ..........507
2 The Catholic Church and the French Revolution .......523
Primary Historical Documents ....................................541
Chapter 7
The Eastern Orthodox world ................................. 567
Introduction .............................................................569
1 Russian Orthodoxy: The school of Prokopovich ........571
2 Tikhon of Zadonsk: Russian pietism .......................581
3 The Great Philokalia: Macarios of Corinth and Nicodemos the Hagiorite ..............593
4 Paisius Velichkovsky .............................................601
5 Cosmas the Aetolian .............................................609
6 Missionary expansion ...........................................617
Primary Historical Sources .........................................623
Bibliography .............................................................. 647
Index to Names ......................................................... 655
Index to Subjects ....................................................... 660
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Product Details
Title: 2,000 Years of Christ’s Power, Vol. 5: The Age of Enlightenment and Awakening
Author: Nick Needham
Publisher: Christian Focus
Pages: 664
Binding: Hardback
Size: 21.6 x 13.8 x 4.2 cm
ISBN: 9781527109735
