Evangelical Anglican Way: Individualist and Disengaged 1920 - 1940 (original) (raw)

In the inter-war period evangelical Anglicans were poorly equipped to respond to the philosophical, political, social, cultural and religious challenges that confronted British Christianity. They were preoccupied with their own internal doctrinal problems to do with Biblical inspiration and the Atonement, their own priorities in evangelism at home and overseas, and their ongoing suspicions about Anglo-Catholics, along with ‘liberal’ Christians. However new expressions of evangelical witness did appear, some of them from the evolving Keswick Convention. The Oxford Group that became Moral Re-armament (MRA) and the East African Revival were two examples. At the same time evangelicals of different shades of opinion welcomed the return, from a fundamentalist tendency in interpreting the Bible, to a more holistic and reverential approach which did justice both to its theological integrity and prophetic intensity.