Marvellous Melbourne with David Bebbington
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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…
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