Early Evangelicals

Reverend Leonard Elliott Elliott-Binns (18.09.1885-10.04.1963) was educated at Manchester Grammar School, Emmanuel College and Ridley College (Cambridge). He worked as chaplain (Ridley Hall), curate (Plymouth), vicar (Plymouth, Davenport, West Ham), dean (West Ham) and also as canon (Truro). Publications: Mr Wells' Invisible King, 1919 Erasmus the Reformer (Hulsean Lectures), 1923 The Evangelical Party in the English Church (Faiths' Series), 1928 Innocent III, 1931 The Decline and Fall of the Medieval Papacy, 1934 Religion in the Victorian Era, 1936 The Church in the Ancient World, 1938 The Story of England's Church, 1945 The Beginnings of Western Christendom, 1948 The Development of English Theology in the Later Nineteenth Century, 1952 The Early Evangelicals, 1953 Galilean Christianity, 1956

• A major study of 18th-century English evangelicalism, showing the differences between Anglican evangelicalism and the Methodism of the Wesleys and Whitefield.