Llewelyn Evans, Wales, and the “Broadening Church"
This paper describes the career of the Welsh-American theologian Llewelyn Ioan Evans and his contribution to the doctrinal developments within the Presbyterian Church during the 1880s. The context of Evans's more liberal understanding of biblical infallibility is sought in his upbringing among...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2003
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The journal of Presbyterian history
Year: 2003, Volume: 81, Issue: 4, Pages: 221-241 |
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| Summary: | This paper describes the career of the Welsh-American theologian Llewelyn Ioan Evans and his contribution to the doctrinal developments within the Presbyterian Church during the 1880s. The context of Evans's more liberal understanding of biblical infallibility is sought in his upbringing among the Calvinistic Methodist Church in Wales and his subsequent theological training at the “New School" Lane Seminary, Cincinnati, Ohio, rather than at “Old School" Princeton where, after 1870, the majority of his fellow immigrant Welsh Calvinistic Methodists received their ministerial formation. As well as illustrating the tensions that were inherent in applying critical methods of study to the biblical text, the paper seeks to understand why theologians who were equally committed to Presbyterian orthodoxy and the evangelical faith came to divergent conclusions as to how scripture should be deemed authoritative. The Welsh contribution to American Protestantism and the influence of American Calvinism, especially the Princeton Theology, on nineteenth-century Welsh evangelicalism, is a neglected area of study. The article seeks to open the way to future research in this field. |
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| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of Presbyterian history
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