The growth of the Brethren movement : national and international experiences : essays in honour of Harold H. Rowdon / [print]
edited by Neil T.R. Dickson and Tim Grass.
- Eugene, Oregon : Wipf and Stock Publishers, 2006.
- xiv, 271 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Studies in evangelical history and thought .
- Studies in evangelical history and thought. .
Includes bibliographies and index.
'To equip and encourage' : the life of Harold H. Rowdon / The quest for identity in British Brethren historiography : some reflections from an outsider / To encourage historians of the Christian Brethren : a meditation / John Eliot Howard : from Friend to Brother / George Muller and the financing of the Scriptural Knowledge Institution / Revivalism and the limits of cooperation : Brethren origins in Orkney in the 1860s / Brethren in Bearwood : the earliest days / A bulwark of evangelicalism : Brethren as a lay movement in England in the 1930s / Brethren in Britain, 1945-2000 : a personal sketch / Julius Anton von Poseck (1816-1898) and Brethren origins in Germany / The early years of a new assembly : Bethesda Gospel Hall, Singapore, 1864-1914 / Brethren revivalism : a second look at New Zealand / 'Do the next thing' : Henry Lewis Garrett and the evolution of the Hobart Brethren Assembly / Christian Brethren assemblies in Jamaica, 1923-2003 / Brethren missionary settlers and a colonial settler compared and contrasted / Some missiological issues from the past facing the Christian Brethren assemblies in Zambia today / The Brethren movement in Angola, 1960-2000 / Anthony Norris Groves in an international context : a re-assessment of his early development / The place of the Brethren movement in international evangelicalism / Ian M. Randall -- Tim Grass -- Beth Dickson -- Gerald T. West -- Neil Summerton -- Neil T.R. Dickson -- Jean M. Johnson -- Roger Shuff -- Harold H. Rowdon -- August Jung -- Jason Lim -- Peter Lineham -- Elisabeth Wilson -- Winston G. Litchmore -- Pauline Summerton -- Kovina L.K. Mutenda -- Jose Neto -- Timothy C.F. Stunt -- D.W. Bebbington.
The essays in this book have been contributed in honour of Dr. H. H. Rowdon, a teacher of several generations of students at the London Bible College and a historian of the Brethren movement. The book includes reflections on the historiography of the Brethren, but it is their character and growth which form the principal focus. The writers make original contributions to national, regional, or local histories and at the same time raise wider themes and issues on topics such as revivalism in New Zealand and the Orkney Islands, or paternalism and missionary endeavor in Zambia. Leading features of the Brethren are discussed through papers on several seminal figures such as Anthony Norris Groves, John Eliot Howard, and George Muller. Above all, the opportunities and problems represented by the worldwide growth of the movement are looked at with reference to a number of countries, among them Britain, Germany, Jamaica, and Angola, or to individual congregations in places as diverse as Birmingham, Singapore, and Tasmania. 'Over the whole world...', concludes Prof. D.W. Bebbington in his contribution, 'Brethren played a distinctive role as evangelicals of the evangelicals.' Book jacket.
The Growth of the Brethren Movement: National and International Experiences: Essays in Honor of Harold H. Rowdon. (2006). United States: Wipf & Stock Publishers. The Growth of the Brethren Movement: National and International Experiences: Essays in Honor of Harold H. Rowdon. United States, Wipf & Stock Publishers, 2006. The Growth of the Brethren Movement: National and International Experiences: Essays in Honor of Harold H. Rowdon. United States: Wipf & Stock Publishers, 2006.
Neil Dickson is the convenor of the Brethren Archivists and Historians Network and has written 'Brethren in Scotland 1838-2000: a social study of and evangelical movement' (2003). Tim Grass is a Senior Research Fellow at Spurgeon's College, London, Assistant Editor for the Ecclesiastical History Society, and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. He also serves as Facilitator of the Lausanne-Orthodox Initiative. Tim has authored Gathering to His Name: The Story of Open Brethren in Britain and Ireland (2006), SCM Core Text: Modern Church History (2008), The Lord's Watchman: A Life of Edward Irving (2011), and F. F. Bruce: A Life (2011).