URL: http://ttpstudents.com/papers/ets/2001/Stewart/Stewart.html

Summary:
by Kenneth J. Stewart
2001

If you or I had asked this question in polite evangelical company prior to 1989, we would certainly have drawn very blank looks. For until that year, it was taken as an elementary truth that not only the evangelical Christianity we associate with the century of the Wesley brothers, George Whitefield and Jonathan Edwards but ­ for that matter with the next century of George Muller, D.L. Moody and J.C. Ryle , or the century just past ­ the Billy Graham era, stood in an unbroken succession of vital Christianity extending backwards to at least the Reformation of the sixteenth century and perhaps beyond...

Category: Contemporary Theology

Tags: Evangelicalism, David Bebbington