High Calvinists in Action

Mark Smith, The Journal of Theological Studies ...thoroughly researched and convincingly argued study of urban High Calvinism, Shaw seeks to challenge this stereotype and to paint an alternative picture ... important points about the robustness of early nineteenth-century working-class religiosity and the difference between metropolitan and regional ecclesiastical cultures ... It will provide valuable reading, not only for those with an interest in the application of Calvinist theology but also for historians of urban religion and nineteenth-century urbanization more generally.

Journal of Ecclesiastical History ... well-researched and carefully argued.

Baptist Quarterly Ian Shaw has put us in his debt by this exploration of the social and political actions of six ministers of the early nineteenth century ... This is a rich book, meticulously researched and well written. It casts light on what has often been a dark corner of evangelical history.

Themelios ... makes an important contribution ... this is rich and complex comparative history ... offers a powerful antidote to the stereotypes, simplifications and reductionism that have sometimes dogged scholarship on nineteenth-century religion.

Ian J. Shaw is Lecturer in Church History at International Christian College, Glasgow

Introduction: People, Places, and Theology; 1. The Development of High and Evangelical Calvinism to c. 1860; 2. The Responses of British Evangelicals to the Religious and Secular Problems of the Inner City c. 1800-1860; 3. The Manchester Context; 4. William Nunn (1786 - 1840); 5. William Gadsby (1773 - 1844); 6. William McKerrow (1803 - 1878); 7. Joseph Irons (1785 - 1852); 8. James Wells (1803 - 1872); 9. Andrew Reed (1787 - 1862); 10. Conclusion