Ian Randall, Ph.D., FRHistS
Research Associate, Cambridge Centre for Christianity Worldwide
Evangelical history, especially in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, has been Ian Randall's main field of academic interest. A particular focus has been on movements of evangelical spirituality and their relationship to mission and social action. He has written several books and many articles.
Select Publications
‘Baptist Students in Cambridge: Denominational and ecumenical identities, from the 1920s to the 1940s’, in Alexander Chow and Emma Wild-Wood, eds., Ecumenism and Independency in World Christianity (Leiden: Brill, 2020), pp. 144-161.
‘“I felt bound to receive all true Christians as brethren”: The expansive ecclesiology of Andrew Jukes (1815-1901)’, in Neil Dickson and T.J. Marinello, eds., The Brethren and the Church (Glasgow: BAHN, 2020), pp. 47-62.
‘John Melville in Odessa: Bible-Related Outreach, 1840s to 1860s’, in Joshua Searle, et al, eds., Encountering the Mystery: Essays in Honor of Sergii V. Sannikov (Odessa: Theological Seminary, 2020), pp. 113-122.
Love@Work: 100 Years of the Industrial Christian Fellowship (London: DLT, 2020), with Phil Jump and John Weaver
A Kind of Upside-Downness: Learning Disabilities and Transformational Community, edited with David F. Ford and Deborah Hardy Ford (London: Jessica Kingsley, 2020).
Cambridge Students and Christianity Worldwide: Insights from the 1960s (Cambridge: CCCW, 2019).
With Toivo Pilli, ‘Free Church Traditions in Twentieth-Century Europe’, in Jehu J. Hanciles, ed., The Oxford History of Protestant Dissenting Movements, Vol. IV: The Twentieth Century Traditions in a Global Context(Oxford: OUP, 2019), pp. 261-91.
‘“The most important questions of philosophy and science”: The early years of the Victoria Institute’, Faith and Thought, No. 66 (April 2019), pp. 3-24.
A Christian Peace Experiment: The Bruderhof Community in Britain, 1933-1942 (Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2018).
‘Charles Raven (1885-1964): Professor of Divinity and Promoter of Science’, Science and Christian Belief, Vol. 30, No. 1 (2018), pp. 57-70.
‘Emmanuel Congregational Church, Cambridge, 1874-1924: A “Representative Church”?’, Journal of the United Reformed Church History Society, Vol. 10, No. 2 (May 2018), pp. 73-93.
‘Wilfred James Wiseman (1891-1970): The Bible Society and the Brethren’, in Neil Dickson and T.J. Marinello, eds., Bible and Theology in the Brethren (Glasgow: Brethren Archivists & Historians Network, 2018), pp. 115-31.
‘Epiphany: The One Who is Revealed’, in Andy Goodliff and Paul W. Goodliff, eds., Rhythms of Faithfulness: Essays in Honor of John E. Colwell (Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock, 2018), pp. 112-27.
‘“That the progress of the Word be not hindered”: William Nicolson and the British and Foreign Bible Society in Russia, 1869-1897’, Baptistic Theologies, Vol. 10, No. 2 (Autumn 2018), pp. 22-40.
‘English Baptists and the Peace Movement: from World War I to World War II’, and ‘An Anabaptist Witness: The Bruderhof Community’, in Baptistic Theologies, Vol. 9, No. 2 (Autumn 2017), pp. 1-18 and 19-36.
‘“All War is Contrary to the Mind of Christ”: The Bible and the Fellowship of Reconciliation’, Journal of the Bible and its Reception, Vol. 4, No. 2 (2017), pp. 225-46.
‘Early Moravian Spirituality and Missionary Vision’, Wesley and Methodist Studies, Vol. 9, No. 2 (2017), pp. 123-40.
‘Baptists’ [in Britain and Ireland], in Timothy Larsen and Michael Ledger-Lomas, eds., The Oxford History of Protestant Dissenting Movements, Vol. III: The Nineteenth Century (Oxford: OUP, 2017), pp. 57-78.
Research Supervision
Past Supervision: John Read, Graham Burkhart
Email: ian.m.randall@gmail.com