An insightful introduction to this new volume on evangelical historiography considers the general state of the study of history writing before focusing in on the challenges facing evangelical scholars seeking to integrate their faith and their historical endeavours and particularly the tensions between providentialist and professional historiography. It suggests that a place might be found for both kinds of writing if it is recognized that they address different sorts of audiences for different purposes, thus undermining monopolistic claims on behalf of the history produced by the academy.
The remainder of the volume comprises twelve case studies of evangelical historiographical endeavour, many sparkling and all to be read with profit. They are arranged broadly chronologically beginning with three Hanoverian period enterprises: John Gillies's Historical Collections, principally a compendium of material on eighteenth-century revivals, and the same author's biography of Whitefield, analysed by David Ceri Jones; Darren Schmidt's account of Erasmus...
