The Center for the Study of World Christian Revitalization Movements

 .  Early Evangelicalism: A Global Intellectual History, 1670-1789, by W. Reginald Ward. Cambridge University Press, 2006. 226 pp.   Ward’s new book redefines the prevailing understanding of the origins of modern evangelicalism. In contrast with the influential position of David Bebbington’s Evangelicalism in Modern Britain: A History fro the 1730s to the 1980s (Unwin Hyman, 1989), Ward locates his discussion not with the Enlightenment but with the age of Pietism in the last three decades of the seventeenth century. He traces the roots of evangelicalism to a mix of…