Andrew Atherstone
Biographic Data
| ID | 2505297 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrew Atherstone |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrew |
| FAMILY NAME | Atherstone |
| SIGNATURE | ATHERSTONE A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Wycliffe College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4403-8946 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Germ Panic and Chalice Hygiene in the Church of England, c.1895–1930
The late‐Victorian medical revolution in bacteriology, and growing public awareness of hygienic standards and the danger of disease infection from germs, created alarm about the traditional Christian practice of drinking from a common cup at Holy Communion. Worried congregations looked for alternatives, and some experimented with individual communion cups, an innovation which began in North America but quickly spread globally. This article examin…
The Oxford Handbook of Christian Fundamentalism
Christian fundamentalism is a significant global movement. It originally took its name from The Fundamentals, a series of booklets defending classic evangelical doctrines, published in the 1910s, but it has evolved significantly beyond its early North American origins. In this Handbook, research-led chapters cover major historical developments, key doctrines such as biblical inerrancy, creationism and separatism, and an extensive range of moral a…
Oxford Handbook of Christian Fundamentalism
John Henry Newman's National Monument
According to the standard narrative, although John Henry Newman was driven away from Oxford in the 1840s by the dominant Protestant consensus, by the end of his life in the 1890s he was back in favour, fêted in Oxford as a Roman Catholic celebrity and as an esteemed alumnus. This article challenges that interpretation by examining the forgotten controversy over Newman's national monument, a significant aspect of his reception history. It shows ho…
Wesley and Whitefield? Wesley versus Whitefield
This new collection of essays is written with the conviction that John Wesley and George Whitefield are too often considered in isolation from each other, and deserve comparative studies of their parallel ministries. Some have already pioneered this path, focused on particular doctrines, notably Timothy L. Smith's Whitefield and Wesley on the New Birth (1986), James Schwenk's Catholic Spirit (2008) on their ecclesiology, and Ian Maddock's Men of …
Heart Religion
Evangelicalism has often been characterized as ‘the religion of the heart’, contrasted with nominal Christianity, legalistic churchgoing, and barren orthodoxy. Where formal religiosity is external and cerebral, heart religion is internal, experiential, and affective. In a blossoming field of historical literature, this sophisticated volume brings together nine (mostly English) case studies, further fruitful industry from the Dr Williams's Centre …
The Routledge Research Companion to the History of Evangelicalism
George Whitefield Tercentenary Essays
The tercentenary of George Whitefield's birth in 2014 has stimulated an energetic scholarly reassessment by historians of religion and culture of the eighteenth-century evangelist and his remarkable transatlantic ministry. Whitefield was nothing less, as the editors here remark, than ‘a phenomenon’ (1). The international ‘Whitefield at 300’ conference at Pembroke College, Oxford—his alma mater—resulted in a ground-breaking volume of sixteen subst…
George Bell, Bishop of Chichester
Bishop George Bell’s reputation lies in tatters following revelations in October 2015 that the Diocese of Chichester has issued a formal apology and paid an out-of-court settlement after an allegation that the bishop sexually abused a young child in the 1950s. The establishment has rushed to distance itself from Bell. His name has hastily been deleted from associated institutions, like the Bishop Bell School in Eastbourne, and there have even bee…
The Fire Divine
This attractive volume is intended as a companion to Michael Reeves's The Unquenchable Flame: Introducing the Reformation (IVP, 2009), and picks up the story of evangelicalism from the revivals and awakenings of the 1730s to the philanthropic crusades and missionary endeavours of the mid-nineteenth century. David Ceri Jones is an accomplished guide, well known for his studies of George Whitefield and Calvinistic Methodism, and here distils the be…
Evangelical Dissentients and the Defeat of the Anglican-Methodist Unity Scheme
During the ecumenical heyday of the 1960s and early 1970s, evangelicals within Methodism and Anglicanism played a major part in helping to defeat the proposed Anglican-Methodist reunion scheme. This article examines the rhetoric of two groups of dissentients, one from each denomination—the Voice of Methodism, and the Calvinist circle around Anglican theologian J. I. Packer. It demonstrates that although their objections to the scheme were broadly…
Evangelicalism and the Church of England in the Twentieth Century
An important contribution to the understanding of twentieth-century Anglicanism and evangelicalism.
Christian Family, Christian Nation
‘We reject that morality – death to the family!’ So interjected a young female heckler during the inaugural rally of the Nationwide Festival of Light (NFOL) in Westminster Central Hall on 9 September 1971. Although press coverage of the event focused upon more dramatic interventions, such as the attempt by a group of bogus nuns to storm the platform, it was this stark proclamation of ‘death to the family’ which revealed the primary ideological ba…
Ireland's 1916 Rising
C Scott Dixon, Protestants
Protestant Dublin, 1660–1760
Evangelicals and the Oxford Movement Centenary
The first centenary of the Oxford Movement was celebrated throughout the Anglican Communion in July 1933. Within the Church of England, the commemoration was officially sanctioned by the archbishops of Canterbury and York, a sign of growing rapprochement between the episcopate and the Anglo‐Catholic movement. The triumphant Anglo‐Catholic Congress organized exuberant demonstrations, but amongst the beleaguered Evangelical minority the birthday pa…
Frances Ridley Havergal’s Theology of Nature
Historians of the nineteenth-century Keswick holiness movement have long observed, though seldom analysed, its theological appropriation of the natural world. With annual conventions held from 1875 in the Lake District, home territory of Wordsworth and Southey, the movement’s love of nature was one of its most obvious ‘Romantic afFinities’ and marked it out from other streams of contemporary Evangelicalism, as David Bebbington has recendy shown. …
Rescued from the Brink
The twenty-five theological colleges of the Church of England entered the 1960s in buoyant mood. Rooms were full, finances were steadily improving, expansion seemed inevitable. For four years in succession, from 1961 to 1964, ordinations exceeded six hundred a year, for the first time since before the First World War, and the peak was expected to rise still higher. In a famously misleading report, the sociologist Leslie Paul predicted that at a ‘…
The Martyrs' Memorial at Oxford
The Martyrs' Memorial at Oxford is usually interpreted as an anti-Tractarian statement provoked by the publication of R. H. Froude's notorious Remains . This paper argues, however, that the monument's anti-Catholic nature has been overlooked, largely as a result of interpreting the scheme in the light of subsequent developments. Much of the original polemic surrounding the project was directed exclusively against Roman Catholicism and it won supp…
Archbishop Carey's Ecumenical Vision
Ireland's 1916 Rising
Evangelicals and the Oxford Movement Centenary
The first centenary of the Oxford Movement was celebrated throughout the Anglican Communion in July 1933. Within the Church of England, the commemoration was officially sanctioned by the archbishops of Canterbury and York, a sign of growing rapprochement between the episcopate and the Anglo‐Catholic movement. The triumphant Anglo‐Catholic Congress organized exuberant demonstrations, but amongst the beleaguered Evangelical minority the birthday pa…
The Martyrs' Memorial at Oxford
The Martyrs' Memorial at Oxford is usually interpreted as an anti-Tractarian statement provoked by the publication of R. H. Froude's notorious Remains . This paper argues, however, that the monument's anti-Catholic nature has been overlooked, largely as a result of interpreting the scheme in the light of subsequent developments. Much of the original polemic surrounding the project was directed exclusively against Roman Catholicism and it won supp…
Archbishop Carey's Ecumenical Vision
Rescued from the Brink
The twenty-five theological colleges of the Church of England entered the 1960s in buoyant mood. Rooms were full, finances were steadily improving, expansion seemed inevitable. For four years in succession, from 1961 to 1964, ordinations exceeded six hundred a year, for the first time since before the First World War, and the peak was expected to rise still higher. In a famously misleading report, the sociologist Leslie Paul predicted that at a ‘…
Frances Ridley Havergal’s Theology of Nature
Historians of the nineteenth-century Keswick holiness movement have long observed, though seldom analysed, its theological appropriation of the natural world. With annual conventions held from 1875 in the Lake District, home territory of Wordsworth and Southey, the movement’s love of nature was one of its most obvious ‘Romantic afFinities’ and marked it out from other streams of contemporary Evangelicalism, as David Bebbington has recendy shown. …
Protestant Dublin, 1660–1760
Evangelicals and the Oxford Movement Centenary
The first centenary of the Oxford Movement was celebrated throughout the Anglican Communion in July 1933. Within the Church of England, the commemoration was officially sanctioned by the archbishops of Canterbury and York, a sign of growing rapprochement between the episcopate and the Anglo‐Catholic movement. The triumphant Anglo‐Catholic Congress organized exuberant demonstrations, but amongst the beleaguered Evangelical minority the birthday pa…
C Scott Dixon, Protestants
Evangelicalism and the Church of England in the Twentieth Century
An important contribution to the understanding of twentieth-century Anglicanism and evangelicalism.
Christian Family, Christian Nation
‘We reject that morality – death to the family!’ So interjected a young female heckler during the inaugural rally of the Nationwide Festival of Light (NFOL) in Westminster Central Hall on 9 September 1971. Although press coverage of the event focused upon more dramatic interventions, such as the attempt by a group of bogus nuns to storm the platform, it was this stark proclamation of ‘death to the family’ which revealed the primary ideological ba…
Ireland's 1916 Rising
Evangelical Dissentients and the Defeat of the Anglican-Methodist Unity Scheme
During the ecumenical heyday of the 1960s and early 1970s, evangelicals within Methodism and Anglicanism played a major part in helping to defeat the proposed Anglican-Methodist reunion scheme. This article examines the rhetoric of two groups of dissentients, one from each denomination—the Voice of Methodism, and the Calvinist circle around Anglican theologian J. I. Packer. It demonstrates that although their objections to the scheme were broadly…
The Fire Divine
This attractive volume is intended as a companion to Michael Reeves's The Unquenchable Flame: Introducing the Reformation (IVP, 2009), and picks up the story of evangelicalism from the revivals and awakenings of the 1730s to the philanthropic crusades and missionary endeavours of the mid-nineteenth century. David Ceri Jones is an accomplished guide, well known for his studies of George Whitefield and Calvinistic Methodism, and here distils the be…
George Whitefield Tercentenary Essays
The tercentenary of George Whitefield's birth in 2014 has stimulated an energetic scholarly reassessment by historians of religion and culture of the eighteenth-century evangelist and his remarkable transatlantic ministry. Whitefield was nothing less, as the editors here remark, than ‘a phenomenon’ (1). The international ‘Whitefield at 300’ conference at Pembroke College, Oxford—his alma mater—resulted in a ground-breaking volume of sixteen subst…
George Bell, Bishop of Chichester
Bishop George Bell’s reputation lies in tatters following revelations in October 2015 that the Diocese of Chichester has issued a formal apology and paid an out-of-court settlement after an allegation that the bishop sexually abused a young child in the 1950s. The establishment has rushed to distance itself from Bell. His name has hastily been deleted from associated institutions, like the Bishop Bell School in Eastbourne, and there have even bee…
Heart Religion
Evangelicalism has often been characterized as ‘the religion of the heart’, contrasted with nominal Christianity, legalistic churchgoing, and barren orthodoxy. Where formal religiosity is external and cerebral, heart religion is internal, experiential, and affective. In a blossoming field of historical literature, this sophisticated volume brings together nine (mostly English) case studies, further fruitful industry from the Dr Williams's Centre …
The Routledge Research Companion to the History of Evangelicalism
Wesley and Whitefield? Wesley versus Whitefield
This new collection of essays is written with the conviction that John Wesley and George Whitefield are too often considered in isolation from each other, and deserve comparative studies of their parallel ministries. Some have already pioneered this path, focused on particular doctrines, notably Timothy L. Smith's Whitefield and Wesley on the New Birth (1986), James Schwenk's Catholic Spirit (2008) on their ecclesiology, and Ian Maddock's Men of …
The Oxford Handbook of Christian Fundamentalism
Christian fundamentalism is a significant global movement. It originally took its name from The Fundamentals, a series of booklets defending classic evangelical doctrines, published in the 1910s, but it has evolved significantly beyond its early North American origins. In this Handbook, research-led chapters cover major historical developments, key doctrines such as biblical inerrancy, creationism and separatism, and an extensive range of moral a…
Oxford Handbook of Christian Fundamentalism
John Henry Newman's National Monument
According to the standard narrative, although John Henry Newman was driven away from Oxford in the 1840s by the dominant Protestant consensus, by the end of his life in the 1890s he was back in favour, fêted in Oxford as a Roman Catholic celebrity and as an esteemed alumnus. This article challenges that interpretation by examining the forgotten controversy over Newman's national monument, a significant aspect of his reception history. It shows ho…
Germ Panic and Chalice Hygiene in the Church of England, c.1895–1930
The late‐Victorian medical revolution in bacteriology, and growing public awareness of hygienic standards and the danger of disease infection from germs, created alarm about the traditional Christian practice of drinking from a common cup at Holy Communion. Worried congregations looked for alternatives, and some experimented with individual communion cups, an innovation which began in North America but quickly spread globally. This article examin…
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