Tuesday, 21 May 2024

Evangelical History

Justin Taylor

Blog can be found on:

https://blogs.thegospelcoalition.org/evangelical-history/

50 Years Ago Today: The Split Between John Stott and Martyn Lloyd-Jones

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On Tuesday, October 18, 1966, an event took place that shook British evangelicalism—on the nature of the church and the basis of gospel unity and purity—with reverberations still being felt today.

To help us understand what happened, I talked with the Rev. Dr. Andrew Atherstone, Latimer Research Fellow at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford University. His research, writing, and teaching focus on the history of the relationship between Anglicanism and evangelicalism. He is the co-editor, with David Ceri Jone..

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Over at First Things, Benjamin Myers writes about why so many evangelicals in America fall into the “sentimentality trap.”

Many Christians seem to believe that what Scripture means by “pure” and by “lovely” is merely the pleasant and the naive, the Hallmark Channel, not the reality of a world in need of redemption. Yet, looked at through the initially disorienting but ultimately corrective lens of Scripture itself, what is more pure and lovely than the Cross? One might answer, “the Resurrection..

Was Billy Graham the Father of the Religious Right?

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Baylor recently hosted the eminent historian of religion Grant Wacker, of Duke Divinity School, who spoke on his biography of Billy Graham, America’s Pastor: Billy Graham and the Shaping of a Nation. In particular, he spoke on “Billy Graham and American Political Culture.”

Since many younger people today may not fully appreciate Graham’s enormous influence, Wacker emphasized that Graham was the most important evangelist in the Christian history of the English-speaking world since George Whitefi..

The Conversion of Charles Finney

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On this date—October 10, 1821, a Sunday evening—a 29-year-old lawyer named Charles Grandison Finney knelt in the woods of Adams, New York, and had a conversion experience.

The following is an excerpt from his account of the event:

On a Sabbath evening in the autumn of 1821, I made up my mind that I would settle the question of my soul’s salvation at once, that if it were possible I would make my peace with God. But as I was very busy in the affairs of the office, I knew that without great firm..

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Today the film The Birth of a Nation premieres, purporting to depict the slave insurrection in Southampton County, Virginia, in August 1831, led by Nat Turner, a 30-year-old slave.

Here are some questions, with an attempt at some answers:

What did Nat Turner look like?
How many people died in the revolt?
What role did religion play in Turner’s actions?
Is the film historically accurate?
What are some recommended resources on Turner and the insurrection?
1. What did Nat Turner look like?
The fi..

The Religious Reasoning Behind Nat Turner’s Deadly Slave Rebellion

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Today the film The Birth of a Nation premieres, depicting Nat Turner’s slave insurrection in Southampton County, Virginia, in August 1831 when Turner was 30 years old.

Although there are no photographs of Nat Turner, a fairly detailed description of was included in a $500 ($13,000 in today’s money) reward notice published in the Washington, D.C., National Intelligencer on September 24, 1831.

Here is what they listed (exact quotes, under my categories):

Height and weight:

5 feet 6 or 8 inches..

The Supreme Court and the Convoluted Case for Trump

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Donald Trump’s smartest political move this year was issuing his list of prospective Supreme Court nominees. This is the ultimate “trump card” (pardon me) for white evangelical voters, it seems. Franklin Graham spoke for many when he suggested recently that the only thing at stake in this election is the future of the Supreme Court.

Thus, such white evangelicals imply, we can ignore Trump’s history of race-baiting, infidelity, and misogyny, his lack of basic understanding of all kinds of politi..

How Much Do Christian Kids Need a ‘Christian’ Education?

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There’s nothing like having school-age children to get you thinking about education. Yes, I went to college for 11 straight years (from BA to PhD), and yes, I have taught at the college level for 14 years, too. But I had never thought so much about education—specifically, what kind of education is best for kids in Christian families—until the last eight years, as we have been homeschooling our children.

A while back I reviewed David Dockery’s book, Faith and Learning: A Handbook for Christian H..

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The University of Glasgow library has discovered a Hebrew and Latin Bible in their collections that they believe once belonged to the great Scottish Reformer John Knox.

The large folio Latin and Hebrew Old Testament published in 1546 in Basel, Switzerland, appears to bear the reformer’s signature dated 1561 on the reverse of the title page. Printed books are inextricably linked with the Reformation: from published Scripture in the vernacular and polemical ‘pamphlet wars’ between clerics holding..

“The Religious Affections” by Jonathan Edwards: A Q&A on an Evangelical Classic

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Jonathan Edwards’s A Treatise Concerning the Religious Affections (1746) is considered one of the great classics of evangelical literature.

(You can access the entire critical edition from Yale University Press online for free.)

Here is a brief overview.

What is the thesis of the book?

“True religion, in great part, consists in holy affections” (95).

What did Edwards mean by “affections”?

Edwards understood the human soul to have two faculties:

the understanding (by which the soul perceiv..

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