Revival and Resurgence in Christian History. Edited by Kate Cooper and Jeremy Gregory. Studies in Church History 44.Published for the Ecclesiastical History Society. Chippenham,Wiltshire: Boydell. xviii + 401 pp. $90.00..

摘要

Numbers of substantial and useful individual historical essays on Christiannrevivals, resurgences, renewals, recoveries, reanimations, rebirths,nrejuvenations, revivications, resuscitations, and many other “re’s” arenassembled in this book that is less useful than it ought to be or might havenbeen. Should sober-minded historians—and aren’t we all such?—be thrownnoff by the jaunty, almost ornery-seeming choice of words in the abovenintroductory sentence, let me say that I conceive of it as a conceptually