Additional Details
- Edited by Timothy Larsen, PhD, FRHistS
- Consulting Editors: D. W. Bebbington, Mark A. Noll
- Inter-Varsity Press, 2003
- 789 pages
- Table of Contents
Features include:
- Biographies of 400 men and women significant to the evangelical movement [view the full list of entries]
- In-depth and engaging summaries of each individual
- Most articles focus on figures of the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries
- Includes articles on several evangelical predecessors of the 14th to the 17th centuries
- Features the work of more than 200 expert contributors
Be sure to read the Author Interview at the InterVarsity Press website. Larsen shares details about what distinguishes BDE from other dictionaries (longer, more detailed entries that go beyond bald facts to offer assessments); insights on why biography is useful to students and others ("I think it is the way into everything. You could track most any theme this way."); quirky facts about famous Christians ("Adam Clarke...taught that Eve was not tempted by a serpent but rather by an orangutan"); and the top five evangelicals from the past that he would invite to a dinner party (you'll have to read it to find out).
Praise for the Print Edition
"The lives of some 400 notable evangelicals, selected from many countries and centuries, including heroes of the faith, pastors, theologians, missionaries and church leaders, are here summarized with scholarship, warmth and the insight that comes from understanding. The dictionary is the work of an outstanding team of contributors, including many acknowledged experts in their own field. It will prove a much-valued companion for all who seek a wider knowledge of our evangelical inheritance."
—Timothy Dudley-Smith, biographer of John Stott
[4 1/2 Stars Out of 5] "The Biographical Dictionary of Evangelicals is an unusual, invaluable collection of 400 brief biographies. Pastors, teachers, and lay people will profit immensely by consulting it often."
—PastorBookshelf.com
"This volume will be a highly valuable work of reference. Written by academic specialists, the articles are both authoritative and very readable, lucid and well balanced, generally sympathetic but without being partisan."
—Hugh McLeod, University of Birmingham, England
"An impressive work of collective scholarship and admirably wide-ranging, this Biographical Dictionary will be welcomed by all who have an interest in the history of evangelicals, or in religious history more generally. Individual entries are authoritative and valuable in themselves; collectively they serve as a powerful reminder of the complexity, pluralism and international reach of English-speaking evangelicalism as it has evolved over the last five hundred years and more."
—Richard Carwardine, Oxford University
"...Each succinctly written article gives sufficient detail, making this much more than a simple who's who. Such evangelists as Oliver Cromwell, Frances Crosby, Billy Graham, Dwight Moody, and William Tyndale are subjects of well-developed essays that are both factual and critical. Most are several pages in length. Entries are signed and conclude with bibliographies encouraging the reader to pursue additional biographical or autobiographical sources."
—Booklist
"Any Who’s Who or Who Was Who of evangelical history is bound to be a useful resource, since few such volumes are readily available. This one is especially helpful, comprising nearly 800 pages of information about more than 400 significant evangelical lives — all for a reasonable price!"
—Evangelical Times [full review]
"You will...enjoy reading through this informative volume."
—Equip magazine [full review]
About the Editor
Larsen is associate professor of theology at Wheaton College in Wheaton, Illinois. He is the author of Friends of Religious Equality: Nonconformist Politics in Mid-Victorian England.
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Sample Pages from the Print Edition