Geoffrey R. Treloar is director of learning and teaching at the Australian College of Theology and visiting fellow in history in the School of Humanities and Languages at the University of New South Wales. He is the author or editor of numerous books, most notably Lightfoot the Historian.
"Geoffrey Treloar reconstructs evangelicalism's 'things fall apart'
moment of the early twentieth century with learned grace. Most
historians have treated the period as one of polarization within
the movement, but Treloar deploys a spectrum framework that
highlights the period's complexities and makes better sense of its
tensions. His choice of Reuben Torrey, John R. Mott, Aimee Semple
McPherson, and Thomas Chatterton Hammond as the period's emblematic
figures is a particularly inspired move that will help both general
readers and specialists to see evangelicalism with fresh eyes and
deeper understanding."
*Michael S. Hamilton, professor and chair, department of history,
Seattle Pacific University*
"In a move reminiscent of the 'new academic hagiography' advocated
by historian Rick Kennedy, Treloar seeks to rehabilitate this era,
casting it as a time not of narrowness and rancor but of breadth
and creativity. Instead of two hardened camps, fundamentalists and
modernist, lobbing rhetorical shells between their respective
seminaries, Treloar describes a wide spectrum of evangelicals with
most of its vitality at the center. 'Not all fundamentalists were
the same; liberals varied in the degree of their liberality; and
the centre was broad,' he writes. This perspective rescues
little-known figures from obscurity, both expanding the roster of
evangelicals and marking finer shades of differentiation among
them."
*Elesha Coffman, Christianity Today, May 9, 2017*
"All those who wish to be informed about a period in evangelical
history that has not been studied as fully as it deserves will find
Treloar's work invaluable."
*Ian Randall, Wesley and Methodist Studies, Vol. 10, No. 1*
"This book is essential reading for anyone interested in the story
of evangelicalism. While many books have been written about World
War I, particularly as related to religion, this book offers a
surprisingly fresh and cogent analysis that builds upon the latest
research about evangelicalism, most notably through creative uses
of the Bebbington quadrilateral, as a valuable contribution about
evangelicalism in its own right."
*Michael W. Campbell, Andrews University Seminary Studies, Spring
2018*
"In sum, here is a book that holds out great explanatory power. If
we are predisposed to think that the theological polarities which
so dominate church life in the Western world today have been
perpetual fixtures, Treloar helps us to see that the first half of
the twentieth century was an era which—for all its tensions—still
had Christian people of clearly differing tendencies in
conversation with one another."
*Kenneth J. Stewart, Scottish Bulletin of Evangelical Theology,
Spring 2018*
"This volume achieves its goal in tracing and explaining the
complexities of evangelical decline in the West. Its analysis helps
shed light on later stages of global evangelicalism."
*Li Ma, Calvin Theological Journal, 53.2*
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