From Awakening to Secession: Radical Evangelicals in Switzerland and Britain, 1815-35

by Timothy C. F. Stunt

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A major study of the impact of the Swiss RTveil (Awakening) on British evangelicals in the 1820's. This book provides an important synthesis of a variety of tendencies and movements which have usually been treated and understood as separate. By resisting the temptation to read back into the 1820's the partisan labels of later decades, Timothy Stunt rediscovers the common ground which was shared by a wide spectrum of Christians who were later seen as mutually hostile. The author considers the show more influence of the Awakening on radical attitudes to mission and ecclesiastical radicalism in Ireland... show less

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Timothy C. F. Stunt has taught Ancient and Modern History for nearly fifty years in secondary schools in England, Switzerland, and the United States. He is the author of From Awakening to Secession (2000) and has contributed some forty articles to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.

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Religion & Spirituality, Nonfiction, History
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270.82ReligionHistory of ChristianityHistory, geographic treatment, biography of ChristianityModern; Rationalistic (1789-)
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BR1642 .G7Philosophy, Psychology and ReligionChristianityChristianity
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