David Bebbington, Ph.D., F.R.Hist.Soc., F.Eccles.H.S., F.R.S.E.
Emeritus Professor of History, University of Stirling
Professor Bebbington's principal research interests are in the history of politics, religion, ideas and society in Britain from the eighteenth to the twentieth century and in the history of the global Evangelical movement. In 1998, he came to the Nazarene Theological College to give the Didsbury Lectures on the theme of 'Holiness in 19th-Century England'. His lectures were published as a book by Paternoster in 2000. He is currently working on a study of Wesleyan Methodism at Brunswick Chapel, Leeds, and in the Shetland Isles.
Select Publications
‘The Spirituality of the Wesleyan Methodists of Brunswick Chapel, Leeds, in the Victorian Era’, in William Gibson and Geordan Hammond (eds), Religion in Britain, 1660-1900: Essays in Honour of Peter B. Nockles, Bulletin of the John Rylands Library 97/1 (Spring 2021), related to Prof Bebbington’s research as John Rylands Research Institute-MWRC Visiting Research Fellow.
‘Baptists and the gospel in the twentieth century’, Baptist Quarterly, 52:1 (2021), 2-20.
‘The Missionary Concerns of Brunswick Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, Leeds, in the Victorian Era’, in A. Chow and E. Wild-Wood, eds. Ecumenism and Independency in World Christianity: Historical Studies in Honor of Brian Stanley (Brill, 2020), 125-43, related to Prof Bebbington’s research as John Rylands Research Institute-MWRC Visiting Research Fellow.
‘The Evangelical transformation of British Protestantism for mission’, in Simone Maghenzani and Stefano Villani (eds), British Protestant Missions and the Conversion of Europe, 1600-1900 (Routledge, 2021 [sc. 2020]), 183-197.
‘Baptists and Seminoles in Indian Territory from the 1840s to 1907’, Perspectives in Religious History, 47:4 (2020), 415-433.
Evangelicalism and Dissent in Modern England and Wales (co-editor) (Routledge, 2021 [sc. 2020]).
'The Mid-Victorian Revolution in Wesleyan Methodist Home Mission', Journal of Ecclesiastical History, 70:1 (Jan. 2019), part of Prof Bebbington’s research as John Rylands Research Institute-MWRC Visiting Research Fellow.
‘Andrew Walls, Brian Stanley, Dana Robert, Mark Noll and global Evangelicalism’, in Andrew Atherstone and David Ceri Jones (eds), Making Evangelical History: Faith, Scholarship and the Evangelical Past (Routledge, 2019), 257-274.
Evangelicals: Who They Have Been, Are Now and Could Be (co-editor) (Eerdmans, 2019).
Patterns in History: A Christian Perspective on Historical Though (4th edn, Baylor University Press, 2018).
‘Theology’, in Timothy Larsen and Michael Ledger-Lomas (eds), The Oxford History of Protestant Dissenting Traditions: Volume III: The Nineteenth Century (Oxford, 2017), 347-368.
‘Evangelicalism and secularization in Britain and America from the eighteenth century to the present’, in David Hempton and Hugh McLeod (eds), Secularization and Religious Innovation in the North Atlantic World (Oxford, 2017), 65-79.
‘The legacy of Jonathan Edwards in Britain’, in The Global Edwards: Papers from the Jonathan Edwards Congress held in Melbourne, August 2015 (Wipf & Stock, 2017), 1-21.
‘The deathbed piety of Victorian Evangelical Nonconformists’, in John Coffey (ed.), Heart Religion: Evangelical Piety in England and Ireland, 1690-1850 (Oxford, 2016), 201-223.
‘The Baptist colleges in the mid-nineteenth century’, Baptist Quarterly, 46:2 (2015), 49-68.
‘Secession and revival: Louth Free Methodist Church in the 1850s’, Wesley and Methodist Studies, 7 (2015), 54-77.
‘The context of Methodist missions: global Evangelicalism in the nineteenth century’, Proceedings of the Wesley Historical Society, 59:6 (2014), 227-244.
‘Evangelicalism and British culture’, in Neil T. R. Dickson and Thomas J. Marinello (eds), Culture, Spirituality and the Brethren (Brethren Archivists and Historians Network, 2014), 25-38
The Intellectual Attainments of Evangelical Nonconformity: A Nineteenth-Century Case-Study (Friends of Dr Williams’s Library Sixty-Fourth Lecture) (Dr Williams’s Trust, 2014).
Interfaces: Baptists and Others: International Baptist Studies (co-editor) (Paternoster Press, 2013).
Evangelicalism and Fundamentalism in the United Kingdom during the Twentieth Century (co-editor) (Oxford, 2013).
Victorian Religious Revivals: Culture and Piety in Local and Global Contexts (Oxford, 2012).
Baptists Through the Centuries (Baylor University Press, 2010, 2nd edn, 2018).
Nonconformist Texts: Volume 3: The Nineteenth Century (Ashgate, 2006), 2nd edn. as Protestant Nonconformist Texts, Volume 3: The Nineteenth Century (Wipf & Stock, 2015).
The Dominance of Evangelicalism: The Age of Spurgeon and Moody (IVP, 2005).
The Mind of Gladstone: Religion, Homer and Politics (Oxford, 2004).
Modern Christianity and Cultural Aspirations (co-editor) (Bloomsbury Academic, 2003).
The Gospel in the World: International Baptist Studies (editor) (Paternoster, 2002).
Holiness in Nineteenth-Century England (Paternoster, 2000).
Gladstone Centenary Essays (co-editor) (Liverpool University Press, 2000).
Evangelicalism: Comparative Studies of Popular Protestantism in North America, the British Isles and Beyond, 1700-1990 (co-editor) (Oxford, 1994).
William Ewart Gladstone: Faith and Politics in Victorian Britain (Eerdmans, 1993).
Victorian Nonconformity (1992) 2nd edn (Cascade, 2011).
Evangelicalism in Modern Britain: A History from the 1730s to the 1980s (Routledge, 1989).
The Baptists in Scotland: A History (editor) (Baptist Union of Scotland, 1988).
The Nonconformist Conscience: Chapel and Politics, 1870-1914 (Allen & Unwin, 1982).
Videos
MWRC/NTC Research Seminar Friday, 18 November, 2016.