The evangelical age of ingenuity in industrial Britain

Synopsis

This Work Demonstrates That Developments In Technology, Commerce, And Infrastructure In The Late Eighteenth And Early Nineteenth Centuries Were Closely Linked To Theological Shifts And Changing Modes Of Religious Life As British Evangelicals Developed New Methods Of Spreading The Gospel And New Forms Of Personal Religious Practice. Introduction: The Evangelical Revolution -- Wise In Their Generation: Evangelical Ingenuity And Enterprise -- Leaves Of Edification: Material Means And Evanglical Sentimentalism In Practice -- Hawking The Gospel: Evangelical Means In The Marketplace -- Sprung Up Like The Gas Lights: Urbanization, Trade Networks, And Mobility -- Faithful Monitors: Religion On The Walls -- The Crystal Jerusalem: Evangelical Methodology And The Great Exhibition -- Conclusion. Joseph Stubenrauch. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 255-275) And Index.