Geoffrey R. Treloar Livres

The Age of Torrey, Mott, McPherson and Hammond. Volume 4 in the five-volume series on the history of evangelicalisn in the English-speaking world. Covers the 1900s to be 1940s. This series presents, for the first time, a connected history of evangelical movements from the 1730s through to the 1990s. The five volumes are united by their use of a common definition of evangelicalism that stresses conversion, reliance on Scripture, activism (especially in evangelism) and the centrality of the cross of Christ. The series offers provocative interpretations as well as factual details, provides extensive bibliographical references and is accessible to a wide

This is the first full length scholarly treatment of the life and work of J. B. Lightfoot. Using large quantities of unpublished sources Geoffrey R. Treloar presents a picture of Lightfoot in relation to the social and cultural conditions of his day and explains the breakthrough the achieved for the higher criticism of the New Testament in the English Church.