Marvellous Melbourne with David Bebbington

About this episode

The episode features a lecture by David Bebbington on the evangelical character of nineteenth-century Melbourne.

🎙️ S3E8— The Charles Perry Lecture in Melbourne Evangelical History 2025 Marvellous Melbourne: A Representative Denominational Society in the Nineteenth-Century Evangelical World Episode Description This lecture highlights the distinctive evangelical character of “Marvellous Melbourne” in the nineteenth century. As the richest city in the world at the time, Melbourne’s denominations embodied a vision for church and society, which has had powerful and ongoing impact, and is most clearly represented in the design of the Melbourne General Cemetery. Speaker David Bebbington is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Stirling in Scotland, and a leading historian of evangelical history, after whom the “Bebbington Quadrilateral” is named. An undergraduate and postgraduate at Jesus College, Cambridge (1968-73), he subsequently became a research fellow of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge (1973-76). From 1976 he taught at the University of Stirling, where from 1999 to 2019 he was Professor of History. He now serves as Director of the Evangelical Studies Program at Baylor’s Institute for Studies of Religion. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His publications…

People in this episode

Guest: David Bebbington

Topics covered

• evangelical history
• Melbourne
• nineteenth century
• church and society
• historical impact

Keywords

• Melbourne
• evangelical history
• nineteenth century
• David Bebbington
• church society

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: University of Stirling, Baylor’s Institute for Studies of Religion

Books & works: Evangelicalism in Modern Britain, The Mind of Gladstone: Religion, Homer and Politics, Patterns in History: A Christian Perspective on Historical Thought, Baptists through the Centuries: A History of a Global People, The Evangelical Quadrilateral

Places: Melbourne

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