Searching For The True Church: Brethren And Evangelicals In Mid-twentieth-century England

Roger Shuff holds that the influence of the Brethren movement on wider evangelical life in England in the twentieth century is often underrated. This book records and accounts for the fact that Brethren reached the peak of their strength at the time when evangelicalism was at it lowest ebb, immediately before World War II. However, the movement then moved into persistent decline as evangelicalism regained ground in the post war period. Accompanying this downward trend has been a sharp accentuation of the contrast between Brethren congregations who engage constructively with the nonBrethren scene and, at the other end of the spectrum, the isolationist group commonly referred to as Exclusive Brethren.