Dwight L. Moody in Ulster: Evangelical Unity, Denominational Identity and the Fundamentalist Impulse
2021; Cambridge University Press; Volume: 72; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1017/s0022046920002560
ISSN1469-7637
AutoresAndrew R. Holmes, Stuart Mathieson,
Tópico(s)Religious Tourism and Spaces
ResumoThe American evangelist Dwight L. Moody visited Ulster on three occasions – 1874, 1883 and 1892 – and his modern, respectable version of revivalism offered a welcome alternative to the ambiguous legacy of the 1859 Ulster revival. Moody stimulated an outpouring of interdenominational activism and may have contributed to a fundamentalist impulse amongst Evangelicals. His legacy in Ulster, as elsewhere, was to energise Evangelicals but at the expense of weakening the ability, perhaps even the desire, of church members to adhere to denominational principles. In that sense, both so-called ‘fundamentalists’ and ‘modernists’ in Northern Ireland in the 1920s were Moody's heirs.
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