The Rise of the Laity in Evangelical Protestantism

includes index and biblioraphy

PART I The priesthood of all believers: from principle to practice 2 Reformers, puritans and evangelicals: the lay connection CARL R. TRUEMAN 3 Lay conversion and Calvinist doctrine during the English Commonwealth CRAWFORD GR1BBEN 4 The Pietist laity in Germany, 1675-1750: knowledge, gender, leadership HANS OTTE PART II Lay religious activity during the Enlightenment 5 Reshaping individualism: the private Christian, eighteenth-century religion and the Enlightenment BRUCE HINDMARSH 6 A spiritual aristocracy: female patrons of religion in eighteenth-century Britain HELEN M. JONES 7 Taming the Spirit: female leadership roles in the American Awakenings, 1730-1830 MARILYN J. WESTERKAMP PART III Tensions surrounding an active laity 8 Lay leadership, establishment crisis and the disdain of the clergy DERYCK W. LOVEGROVE 9 National churches, gathered churches, and varieties of lay evangelicalism, 1735-1859 MARK A. NOLL 10 Methodist New Connexionism: lay emancipation as a denominational raison d`etre TIMOTHY LARSEN PART IV Missions and the widening scope of priesthood 11 The missionary movement: a lay fiefdom? ANDREW F. WALLS 12 Industry, professionalism and mission: the placing of an emancipated laywoman, Dr Ruth Massey 1873-1963 CLYDE BINFIELD 13 A foundation of influence: the Oxford Pastorate and elite recruitment in early twentieth-century Anglican evangelicalism MARK SMITH PART V The church of the laity 14 `The church itself is God`s clergy`: the principles and practices of the Brethren NEIL T.R. DICKSON 15 Changing Baptist concepts of royal priesthood: John Smyth and Edgar Young Mullins MALCOLM B. YARNELL. 16 The Charismatic Movement: the laicizing of Christianity? DAVID F. WRIGHT