Donald M. Lewis
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Visit my new webpage: DonLewis.org Donald M. Lewis is an historian specializing in the study of Evangelical Christianity. He holds a doctorate from the University of Oxford and currently is professor of Church History at Regent College, a graduate school of Christian Studies affiliated with the University of British Columbia, in Vancouver, Canada. His first book Lighten Their Darkness: the Evangelical Mission to Working-Class London, 1828-1860 (Greenwood Press, 1985; republished in 2001 by Paternoster) is a ground-breaking work that focuses on popular religion in the Victorian slums. His ground-breaking The Origins of Christian Zionism: Lord Shaftesbury and Evangelical Support for a Jewish Homeland (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009) examined the background to popular support for the Balfour Declaration of 1917. His most recent book is: In Darkest London: the manuscript diary of Joseph Oppenheimer, City Missionary (Regent College Publishing, 2018). He has recently completed a book A Short History of Christian Zionism: From the Reformation to Today to be published by InterVarsity Press Academic in August 2021 which tracks the development of Christian support for a Jewish home in Palestine from the time of the Reformation to today. He worked for ten years as the editor of the two-volume Blackwell Dictionary of Evangelical Biography (Oxford: Blackwell, 1995 republished in 2005 by Hendrickson). In addition he is the editor of several collections including the award-winning Christianity Reborn: the Global Expansion of Evangelicalism in the Twentieth Century (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2005). Professor Lewis is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in England.
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