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Title

One body in Christ : the history and significance of the Evangelical Alliance / Ian Randall & David Hilborn.

Author

Randall, Ian M.

Publication

Carlisle, Cumbria : Paternoster, 2001.

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Additional Authors

Hilborn, David.

Description

xii, 394 p., [8] p. of plates : ill.; 20 cm.

Subject

• Ecumenical movement > Great Britain > History
• Evangelical Alliance > History
• Evangelicalism > Great Britain > History
• Great Britain > Church history

Note

• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliography: p. [369]-384.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Foreword / Joel Edwards. -- A broadly based religious force: the Evangelical Alliance and modern British church history. -- An Evangelical and Catholic union: the origins of the alliance. -- Across the partition wall: the formation of the alliance. -- Some common action: religious liberty and the search for a social agenda. -- For the maintenance of the truth: nineteenth-century theological controversies. -- In the midst of the universal church: the alliance in global perspective. -- To anglicize, gallicize or Americanize?: The alliance's relationship to Europe. -- Comprehensiveness within the truth: the alliance in the early twentieth century. -- A body of responsible enthusiasts: the alliance and modern evangelism. -- Benevolent neutrality: the alliance and the ecumenical movement.
• The other side: the alliance and renewal from the 1960s to the early 1980s. -- A deepening of Evangelical unity: the resurgence of the alliance in the 1980s and 1990s. -- A knife-edge exercise: theology and ethics in the recent history of the alliance. -- A movement for change: shaping the alliance for the twenty-first century. -- Appendix 1 : The Provisional Doctrinal Basis of Faith of the World's Evangelical Alliance (1845). -- Appendix 2 : The Doctrinal Basis of Faith of the World's Evangelical Alliance (1846). -- Appendix 3 : Evangelical Alliance (UK) Basis of Faith (1970). -- Appendix 4 : Eight General Resolutions of the British Organization of the World's Evangelical Alliance (1846). -- Appendix 5 : Practical Resolutions of the Evangelical Alliance (1996). -- Appendix 6 : The World Evangelical Fellowship Basis of Faith (1951).

ISBN

1842270893

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library