The Origins of Christian Zionism

Donald M. Lewis is Academic Dean and Professor of Church History at Regent College in Vancouver, British Columbia. An expert on nineteenth-century British evangelicalism and popular religion, as well as global Christianity, he is the author of Lighten their Darkness: The Evangelical Mission to Working-Class London and editor of The Blackwell Dictionary of Evangelical Biography, 1730–1860 and Christianity Reborn: The Global Expansion of Evangelicalism in the 20th Century.

"Lewis's book is a very important contribution to the study of British Christian Zionism. One suspects that it will remain the authoritative text on that subject for many years to come." --H-Review Digest

• Introduction; Part I. The Rise of British Evangelical Interest in the Jews: 1. The restoration of the Jews in Protestant thought; 2. Pietism, Clapham, and the Jews; 3. Evangelicalism, prophecy and the Jews; Part II. 'Shaftesbury and the Jews': 4. Shaftesbury the new recruit; 5. 'Christian Europe' in the House of Islam: political, cultural and religious factors leading to European interest in the Middle East in the first half of the nineteenth century; 6. Shaftesbury's attitude to the Jews and to Palestine; 7. Protecting 'God's ancient people' and preparing for their restoration; Part III. Evangelicals and Pietists Together: The Mission to Jews and Palestine: 8. British Evangelical and German Pietist missions in Palestine in the 1820s; 9. A British consul in Jerusalem; 10. An Anglican church in Jerusalem for the 'unwelcome intruders in the Home of Islam'; 11. The Jerusalem Bishopric; 12. Prussia's turn: the Episcopate of Samuel Gobat; Part IV. Shaftesbury's Final Years: 13. Toward the Balfour Declaration.