David W. Bebbington Explained

David W. Bebbington
Birth Name:David William Bebbington
Birth Date:25 July 1949
Birth Place:Nottingham, England
Nationality:British
Thesis Title:The Nonconformist Conscience
Thesis Year:1975
Doctoral Advisor:David Thompson
Discipline:History
Sub Discipline:Ecclesiastical history
Workplaces:University of Stirling
Main Interests:History of evangelicalism

David William Bebbington (born 25 July 1949) is a British historian who is a professor of history at the University of Stirling in Scotland and a distinguished visiting professor of history at Baylor University. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh[1] and the Royal Historical Society.

Biography

Bebbington was born in Nottingham, England, on 25 July 1949 and was raised in Sherwood, a northern suburb of Nottingham. An undergraduate at Jesus College, Cambridge (1968–1971), Bebbington began his doctoral studies there (1971–1973) before becoming a research fellow of Fitzwilliam College (1973–1976). Since 1976 he has taught at the University of Stirling, where since 1999 he has been Professor of History.[2]

He was President of the Ecclesiastical History Society (2006–2007).[3]

Bebbington quadrilateral

Bebbington is widely known for his definition of evangelicalism, referred to as the Bebbington quadrilateral, which was first provided in his 1989 classic study Evangelicalism in Modern Britain: A History from the 1730s to the 1980s.[4] Bebbington identifies four main qualities which are to be used in defining evangelical convictions and attitudes:[5] [6]

Bebbington (along with Mark Noll and others) has exerted a large amount of effort in placing evangelicalism on the world map of religious history. Through their efforts they have made it more difficult for scholars to ignore the influence of evangelicals in the world since the movement’s inception in the eighteenth century.[7] [8]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Professor David William Bebbington FRSE. The Royal Society of Edinburgh. 25 February 2018.
  2. Web site: Professor David William Bebbington. www.stir.ac.uk. en. 5 February 2018. 6 February 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180206002528/https://www.stir.ac.uk/people/11348. dead.
  3. https://www.history.ac.uk/ehsoc/about/past-ehs-presidents Past Presidents - Ecclesiastical History Society
  4. Book: Trueman, Carl. Carl Trueman. The Real Scandal of the Evangelical Mind. 2011. Moody Publishers. 14.
  5. Book: Bebbington, David W. . Evangelicalism in Modern Britain: A History from the 1730s to the 1980s. registration . London. Unwin Hyman. 1989. 2–17.
  6. Book: Noll, Mark A.. The Rise of Evangelicalism: The Age of Edwards, Whitefield, and the Wesleys. Downers Grove, IL. Intervarsity Press. 2003. 19.
  7. Kenneth J.. Stewart. Did evangelicalism predate the eighteenth century? An examination of David Bebbington's thesis. Evangelical Quarterly. April 2005. 77. 2. 135–153.
  8. Book: Crawford. Gribben. Michael . Haykin. Michael Haykin. Kenneth J.. Stewart. Continuities in Evangelical History: Interactions with David Bebbington. Leicester. Inter-Varsity Press. 2009.
  9. Web site: The Nonconformist Conscience: a study of the political attitudes and activities of Evangelical Nonconformists, 1886–1902 . April 6, 2018 .

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