Evangelicalism and Fundamentalism in the United Kingdom during the Twentieth Century

An undergraduate at Jesus College, Cambridge (1968-71), David Bebbington began his doctoral studies there (1971-73) before becoming a research fellow of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge (1973-76). Since 1976 he has taught at the University of Stirling, where from 1999 he has been Professor of History. He has also taught at the University of Alabama, Birmingham, at Regent College, Vancouver, at Notre Dame University, Indiana, at the University of Pretoria, South Africa, and at Baylor University, Texas.A native of Port Talbot, David Ceri Jones is currently a Lecturer in History at Aberystwyth University. Following doctoral work on the eighteenth century evangelical revival at Aberystwyth, David served as a Research Fellow at the University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies where he produced an edition of the correspondence of the Welsh Romantic Iolo Morganwg. Since then he has published extensively in the fields of eighteenth century Methodism in Wales and beyond, and in some aspects of contemporary evangelicalism. He is also an Associate Curate in the Church of Wales, serving three parishes in northern Ceredigion.

This collection of 18 essays, plus an editorial introduction and conclusion, is certain to become required reading for anyone interested in twentieth-century evangelical Protestant Christianity in the United Kingdom, or in the problems facing the scholar who tries to define fundamentalism.

• I: BEFORE FUNDAMENTALISM; II: THE BEGINNINGS OF BRITISH FUNDAMENTALISM; III: THE LATER TWENTIETH CENTURY; IV: NATIONAL VARIATIONS; V: THEOLOGICAL REFLECTIONS