Early Evangelicalism

Book Description:
Evangelicalism contributed to the great transformation of ideas in the modern world. Through a global study of the major figures and movements in the early Evangelical world, Professor Ward traces the discussions from Central Europe to the American colonies about the nature of evangelical identity.

Early Evangelicalism: A Global Intellectual History, 1670-1789 (Hardcover):
W. R. Ward's newest volume takes his monumental study in((ASIN:0521892325 The Protestant Evangelical Awakening) and moves its intellectyual journey into the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century. He traces the intellectual histoiry both on the continent and the English Speaking Worlds. He makes especially significant contributions in the interaction between Lutheran and Reformed Pietists. Most hilstorical studies deal almost entirely with the Eglish-speaking world. The reaction to Systematic theology on the part of Pietists reveals some of the rots of its decline. Ward could have strengthened his work if he had given adequate space to the open theology of Augustine and Luther in additional to the closed theological System of Aristotle an Aquinas. The book, despite its high price is a most important contribution.