David Bebbington
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 5366126 |
|---|---|
| NOME | David Bebbington |
| PRENOMES | David |
| SOBRENOME | Bebbington |
| ASSINATURA | BEBBINGTON D |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Stirling |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7318-2111 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 56 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 24 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 55 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1975 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Reminiscences of the Baptist Historical Society Committee
As given at the Annual General Meeting of the Baptist Historical Society, 20 May 2026I appreciate the chance to offer some remarks about my time on the Baptist Historical Society committee. I joine
The Reputation of the Anabaptists over the Centuries
The Anabaptists were condemned in the sixteenth century for theological, social, economic and political reasons, especially after the catastrophe of Münster in 1534–35. Persecution was sometimes intense, though it gradually eased. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, despite persistent memories of Münster, favourable opinion grew. In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries Anabaptists were still harried for their practice of non-resistance…
Social Christianity in Scotland and Beyond, 1800-2000
Explores Scottish and international Christian responses to social problems in urban-industrial societies since 1800 Analyses the complex movements known as ‘social Christianity’, ‘Christian socialism’, the ‘social gospel’, and ‘social reform’ in which Christians in Scotland and elsewhere struggled to revive and reinterpret the idea of the Kingdom of God Situates historical developments in Scottish religious life in their transnational and interna…
The State of Nineteenth-Century Baptist History
The coverage of John Briggs’s The English Baptists of the Nineteenth Century (1994) allows us to examine many of the aspects of Baptist life as they had come to be understood nearly thirty years ago. Since then culture has come to the fore as a subject for historical study. At the summer conference of the Baptist Historical Society held at Woodbrooke, Birmingham, in July 2022 the theme was ‘Baptists in British Culture in the Nineteenth Century’. …
GlenO'Brien
in the fiction of her son, Anthony Trollope, whose model of a broad Anglican church leads to quite different assumptions.Nevertheless, despite its restricted focus, this is a very useful and insightful book, one that is incisive and informative on many aspects of nineteenth-century US culture.It also offers some thought-provoking contrasts to the situation of the twenty-first century, when, as Murison notes, the worlds of Facebook, Twitter and In…
The Significance of Bristol Baptist College
Bristol Baptist College, founded in 1720 on the basis of a deed of gift of 1679, is the oldest Baptist theological college in the world. It absorbed the influence of the Enlightenment and was dedicated to growth through the energetic preaching of the gospel. The college served as an international agency and at home became a pillar of the Baptist establishment. During the first half of the twentieth century it functioned as a Free Church instituti…
Defending the Faith
An international set of scholars has produced a collection of studies of twentieth-century religious (and anti-religious) polemic. Many of the papers were originally delivered at a conference in London in 2017, but others have been added to ensure a varied coverage. Although there are backward and forward glances, the contributions concentrate on the years between 1917 and 1990 when the state-sponsored secularism of the Soviet Union created the c…
The Spirituality of the Wesleyan Methodists of Brunswick Chapel, Leeds, in the Victorian Era
The spirituality of Brunswick Chapel, Leeds, in the Victorian era illustrates the legacy of John Wesley when Wesleyan Methodism was a power in the land. The priorities were conversion, turning to Christ in repentance and faith, the Bible as the source of divine instruction, the cross as the way in which salvation was achieved and activism as the proper human response. These features were prominent in the whole of the broader Evangelical movement …
Baptists and the Gospel in the Twentieth Century
At the opening of the twentieth century Baptists were largely united in allegiance to a popular form of Free Church Evangelicalism. In the wake of the First World War, however, there was a tendency to theological polarisation, pitting liberals against conservatives. The outcome was a series of Fundamentalist controversies like those in the United States. Forces of moderation made for less contentious times in the middle years of the century, but …
Gareth Atkins, Converting Britannia
The People's Zion
By the 1960s, 21 per cent of religiously active South Africans were Zionists, adherents of an influential but fragmented set of Africanist denominations. Joel Cabrita lucidly explains in this book the strange story of how this group of Christians came to be. The original Zion was not in southern Africa at all, but in the United States. Its founder was John Alexander Dowie, a Scot who emigrated as a boy with his family to South Australia in 1860. …
The Mid-Victorian Revolution in Wesleyan Methodist Home Mission
Wesleyan Methodists in Victorian Britain are supposed to have been hampered by traditional methods of mission. From the 1850s onwards, however, they launched a strategy of appointing home missionary ministers. Although Wesleyans adopted no new theology, left structures unchanged and still relied on wealthy laymen, they developed fresh work in cities, employed paid lay agents, used women more and recruited children as fundraisers. Organised missio…
The Textual Culture of English Protestant Dissent, 1720–1800, by Tessa Whitehouse
‘How doth the little crocodile/ Improve his shining tail’ begins one of Lewis Carroll’s light-hearted poems in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. The verse is a satire of ‘How doth the little busy bee/ Improve each shining hour’, the opening of ‘Against Idleness and Mischief’ by Isaac Watts. The original appeared in Watts’s Divine Songs Attempted in Easy Language for the Use of Children, first printed in 1715; the satire was published in 1865. Wat…
Donald Harman Akenson. Discovering the End of Time
Secession and Revival
At Louth in Lincolnshire there emerged in the 1850s a Free Methodist Church. Wesleyans had been hugely successful in the area, but there was internal opposition to Methodist Conference policies. The corn merchant J. B. Sharpley led a secession from Wesleyanism, contributing ideas about the rights of lay leaders. The new denomination gathered support from tradesmen and shopkeepers, and made efforts to recruit waverers. Its members became keen on e…
The Spiritual Home of W. E. Gladstone
‘Popery is the religion of Cathedrals’, wrote J.W. Cunningham, the evangelical vicar of Harrow in his novel The Velvet Cushion (1815), ‘– Protestantism of houses’. It is a commonplace in the secondary literature that the household was the citadel of the evangelical version of Protestantism in nineteenth-century England. ‘Evangelicalism’, according to a representative comment by Ian Bradley, ‘was above all else the religion of the home.’ The head …
The Correspondence of Henry Edward Manning and William Ewart Gladstone
Journal Article The Correspondence of Henry Edward Manning and William Ewart Gladstone: The Complete Correspondence, 1833–1891, ed. Peter C. Erb Get access The Correspondence of Henry Edward Manning and William Ewart Gladstone: The Complete Correspondence, 1833–1891, ed. Peter C. Erb (Oxford: Oxford U.P., 2013; 4 vols., pp. cxx + 485, 557, 442, 550. £350). D.W. Bebbington D.W. Bebbington 1University of Stirling Search for other works by this auth…
The Evangelical Discovery of History
‘From some modern perspectives’, wrote James Belich, a leading historian of New Zealand, in 1996, ‘the evangelicals are hard to like. They dressed like crows; seemed joyless, humourless and sometimes hypocritical; [and] they embalmed the evidence poor historians need to read in tedious preaching’. Similar views have often been expressed in the historiography of Evangelical Protestantism, the subject of this essay. It will cover such disapproving …
Methodism and Culture
Calvin and British Evangelicalism in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Calvin was less appreciated amongst British Evangelicals during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries than might be expected.
Methodism and History
Book Review| January 01 2011 Methodism and History: Essays in Honour of John Vickers Methodism and History: Essays in Honour of John VickersForsaith, Peter; Wellings, Martin David W. Bebbington David W. Bebbington Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Wesley and Methodist Studies (2011) 3: 164–165. https://doi.org/10.2307/42909815 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation David W. Bebbington; Me…
Victorian Nonconformity
Conscience and Conflict
Journal Article Conscience and Conflict: Methodism, Peace and War in the Twentieth Century Get access Conscience and Conflict: Methodism, Peace and War in the Twentieth Century, by Michael Hughes (Peterborough: Epworth, 2008; pp. 366. Pb. £25). D.W. Bebbington D.W. Bebbington University of Stirling Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXXIV, Issue 508, June 2009, Pages 750–…
Culture and Piety in the Far West
A brief but classic account of a Cornish revival is to be found in Salome Hocking’s book Some Old Cornish Folk , published in 1903. Writing semi-fictionally but also semi-ethnographically about a number of years before, the author, herself sprung from Cornish Methodism, described the thronging penitents, the exuberant singing and the ‘thrill of excitement’ that went through the village. Crucially she commented on the circumstances. The revival, s…
The Free Church M.P.s of the 1906 Parliament
Methodism
Methodism: Empire of the Spirit. By DAVID HEMPTON (New Haven: Yale U.P., 2005; pp. xiii + 278. £19.95). METHODISM has suffered historiographically in two ways. On the one hand, it has been treated by its friends as an appendage to John Wesley; on the other, it has been treated by its foes (and supremely by E.P. Thompson) as a sinister and oppressive force. Hardly any friend or foe has looked in any depth at what the enormously successful movement…
Nonconformity and Electoral Sociology, 1867–1918
Patterns of voting in Britain between the second Reform Act of 1867 and the Franchise Act of 1918 have to be scrutinized afresh in the light of Dr Dunbabin's recent suggestion that very little changed in the period. The electoral profile of the regions, he argues, remained fundamentally constant from well before the period until well afterwards. The basis of the cleavage between conservative and anti-conservative voters was deeply ingrained in re…
Religion and Society in the Nineteenth Century
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The City, the Countryside and the Social Gospel in Late Victorian Nonconformity
The late nineteenth-century city posed problems for English nonconformists. The country was rapidly being urbanised. By 1881 over one third of the people lived in cities with a population of more than one hundred thousand. The most urbanised areas gave rise to the greatest worry of all the churches: large numbers there were failing to attend services. The religious census of 1851 had already shown that the largest towns were the places where ther…
The Mid-Victorian Revolution in Wesleyan Methodist Home Mission
Wesleyan Methodists in Victorian Britain are supposed to have been hampered by traditional methods of mission. From the 1850s onwards, however, they launched a strategy of appointing home missionary ministers. Although Wesleyans adopted no new theology, left structures unchanged and still relied on wealthy laymen, they developed fresh work in cities, employed paid lay agents, used women more and recruited children as fundraisers. Organised missio…
Evangelicalism
Journal Article Evangelicalism: Comparative Studies of Popular Protestantism in North America, the British Isles, and Beyond, 1700–1990. Ed. by Mark A. Noll, David W. Bebbington, and George A. Rawlyk. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1994. xvi, 430 pp. Cloth, $55.00, ISBN 0-19-508362-8. Paper, $19-95, ISBN 0-19-508363-6.) Get access Frank Lambert Frank Lambert Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana Search for other works by this author on:…
The Oxford Group Movement between the Wars
IN July 1935 Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, was the setting for an international gathering that attracted thousands of the eminent and the curious, many of them churchmen. ‘Similar ‘house-parties’ had been held every year since 1930. At free periods during the day, recalled Beverley Nichols, an enthusiast on his first visit, ‘the High Street seemed afire with shining faces’; last thing at night attenders could enjoy a ‘lemonade and biscuit’ party in…
Religion and national feeling in nineteenth-century Wales and Scotland
Wales and Scotland were in the nineteenth century, as they have remained in the twentieth, nations within a multinational state. Where boundaries of nation and state did not coincide in nineteenth-century Europe there was commonly a surge of feeling in favour of achieving a remedy. This was equally true of nations like Italy and Germany that were divided internally by political frontiers and of nations like the Serbs and the Rumanians who were lu…
Gladstone and the nonconformists
Nonconformists had an attitude of veneration for Gladstone. They admired his political skills; they were grateful for the legislative benefits he had brought them like the abolition of compulsory church rates and the opening of higher degrees at the ancient universities; and they were roused by his displays of oratorical power. Yet their respect for Gladstone went far beyond what was due to the able leader of a political party. There was amongst …
Short notices
H. J. Dyos (ed.), Urban History Yearbook 1974, 192; Urban History Yearbook 1975, 188 (Leicester University Press, Leicester, £3.00). J. R. Raveosdale, Liable to Floods: Village Landscape on the Edge of the Fens, A.D. 450–1850 (1974), xi+206 (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, £5.50). Joel Samaha, Law and Order in Historical Perspective. The Case of Elizabethan Essex (1974), xvi+176 (Academic Press, London and New York, £4.70). Charles Carlton…
The City, the Countryside and the Social Gospel in Late Victorian Nonconformity
The late nineteenth-century city posed problems for English nonconformists. The country was rapidly being urbanised. By 1881 over one third of the people lived in cities with a population of more than one hundred thousand. The most urbanised areas gave rise to the greatest worry of all the churches: large numbers there were failing to attend services. The religious census of 1851 had already shown that the largest towns were the places where ther…
Religion and national feeling in nineteenth-century Wales and Scotland
Wales and Scotland were in the nineteenth century, as they have remained in the twentieth, nations within a multinational state. Where boundaries of nation and state did not coincide in nineteenth-century Europe there was commonly a surge of feeling in favour of achieving a remedy. This was equally true of nations like Italy and Germany that were divided internally by political frontiers and of nations like the Serbs and the Rumanians who were lu…
The persecution of George Jackson
The debate surrounding the appointment of George Jackson to a chair at Didsbury College in 1913 has been the chief theological controversy of the twentieth century in British Methodism. It forms an instance of an effort to extinguish alleged theological error, an attempt at persecution within rather than outside the church. It was, as contemporaries complained, a heresy hunt, comparable in some respects to the suppression of Modernism in the Roma…
Nonconformity and Electoral Sociology, 1867–1918
Patterns of voting in Britain between the second Reform Act of 1867 and the Franchise Act of 1918 have to be scrutinized afresh in the light of Dr Dunbabin's recent suggestion that very little changed in the period. The electoral profile of the regions, he argues, remained fundamentally constant from well before the period until well afterwards. The basis of the cleavage between conservative and anti-conservative voters was deeply ingrained in re…
The Victorian Clergy
The Oxford Group Movement between the Wars
IN July 1935 Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, was the setting for an international gathering that attracted thousands of the eminent and the curious, many of them churchmen. ‘Similar ‘house-parties’ had been held every year since 1930. At free periods during the day, recalled Beverley Nichols, an enthusiast on his first visit, ‘the High Street seemed afire with shining faces’; last thing at night attenders could enjoy a ‘lemonade and biscuit’ party in…
Religion and Society in the Nineteenth Century
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History and Theory
Martyrs for the Truth
The systematic study of religious Fundamentalism is now well under way. The first of six promised volumes under the auspices of the Fundamentalism Project of the University of Chicago, making a global examination of such movements in many religions, was published in 1991. Collections of papers evaluating specific aspects of Fundamentalism have been issued, and the theological method of the contemporary British movement has been scrutinized. Its A…
Evangelicalism
Evangelicalism
Journal Article Evangelicalism: Comparative Studies of Popular Protestantism in North America, the British Isles, and Beyond, 1700–1990. Ed. by Mark A. Noll, David W. Bebbington, and George A. Rawlyk. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1994. xvi, 430 pp. Cloth, $55.00, ISBN 0-19-508362-8. Paper, $19-95, ISBN 0-19-508363-6.) Get access Frank Lambert Frank Lambert Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana Search for other works by this author on:…
Evangelicalism
Evangelicalism
The first comparative history of one of the most dynamic popular religious movements in recent times, Evangelicalism offers a uniquely comprehensive survey of this complex phenomenon from its emergence in the mid-eighteenth century to the present. International in scope, the book includes essays by leading American, Canadian, English, Irish, Scottish, and Australian scholars and compares developments in every major region in the English-speaking …
Gladstone Centenary Essays
W. E. Gladstone towers over the politics of the nineteenth century. He is known for his policies of financial rectitude, his campaigns to settle the Irish question, and his championship of the rights of small nations. He remains the only British Prime Minister to have served for four separate terms. In 1998, an international conference at Chester College brought together Gladstone scholars to mark the centenary of his death, and many of the paper…
The Cambridge History of Christianity
This is the first scholarly treatment of nineteenth-century Christianity to discuss the subject in a global context. Part I analyses the responses of Catholic and Protestant Christianity to the intellectual and social challenges presented by European modernity. It gives attention to the explosion of new voluntary forms of Christianity and the expanding role of women in religious life. Part II surveys the diverse and complex relationships between …
Shorter Notices
Journal Article SHORTER NOTICES Get access Gladstone, by Eugenio F. Biagini (London: Macmillan, 2000; pp. ix+138. £13.50). D. W. BEBBINGTON D. W. BEBBINGTON University of Stirling Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXVI, Issue 468, September 2001, Pages 989–990, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CXVI.468.989 Published: 01 September 2001
Shorter Notices
SHORTER NOTICES A Spiritual Home: Life in British and American Reformed Congregations, 1830–1915, by Charles D. Cashdollar (University Park, PA: Penn State U.P., 2000; pp. 336. $65; pb. $22.50). D. W. BEBBINGTON D. W. BEBBINGTON University of Stirling Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXVI, Issue 468, September 2001, Pages 986–987, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CXVI.468.98…
Methodism and Education, 1849-1902
Politicians in the Pulpit
Journal Article Politicians in the Pulpit: Christian Radicalism in Britain from the Fall of the Bastille to the Disintegration of Chartism, Eileen Groth Lyon Get access D. W. Bebbington D. W. Bebbington University of Stirling Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 116, Issue 465, February 2001, Pages 240–241, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/116.465.240 Published: 01 February 2001
A Spiritual Home
Journal Article SHORTER NOTICES Get access A Spiritual Home: Life in British and American Reformed Congregations, 1830–1915, by Charles D. Cashdollar (University Park, PA: Penn State U.P., 2000; pp. 336. $65; pb. $22.50). D. W. BEBBINGTON D. W. BEBBINGTON University of Stirling Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXVI, Issue 468, September 2001, Pages 986–987, https://doi.…
Religious Revivals in Britain and Ireland, 1859-1905
1University of Stirling Religious Revivals in Britain and Ireland, 1859–1905 JaniceHolmes LondonIrish Academic P. 2000xxii + 281£35
Evangelicalism in Modern Britain
This major textbook is a newly researched historical study of Evangelical religion in its British cultural setting from its inception in the time of John Wesley to charismatic renewal today. The Church of England, the Church of Scotland and the variety of Nonconformist denominations and sects in England, Scotland and Wales are discussed, but the book concentrates on the broad patterns of change affecting all the churches. It shows the great impac…
Churches, Chapels and the Parish Communities of Lincolnshire, 1660-1900
1University of Stirling Churches, Chapels and the Parish Communities of Lincolnshire, 1660–1900 R. W.Ambler LincolnHistory of Lincolnshire Committee 2000274£25 Paperback£12.95
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