A shrewd synthesizer, gifted popularizer, and inspiring founder of the Christian and Missionary Alliance movement, A.B. Simpson (1843-1919) was enmeshed in the most crucial threads of evangelical Christianity at the turn of the twentieth century. Daryn Henry presents Simpson's life and ministry as a vivid, fascinating, and paradigmatic study in evangelical religious culture, during a time when the conservative wing of the movement has often been overlooked. Simpson's ministry, Henry explains, fused the classic evangelical emphasis on revivalist conversion with the intensification of that sensibility in the quest for the deeper Christian life of holiness. Recovering the practice of divine healing, Simpson emphasized a dynamically empowered and supernaturally animated Christianity that would spill over into nascent Pentecostalism. His encouragement of cross-cultural missions was part of a trend that unleashed the dramatic rise of world Christianity across the Global South. All the while, his Biblical literalism, antagonism to modernist theology, campaigns against evolution, and views on premillennialism, Biblical prophecy, and the role of Israel in the end times made Simpson a precursor of the fundamentalist melees of subsequent decades. From his upbringing in rural Canada and confessional Scottish Presbyterianism, Simpson journeyed into the heart of American evangelicalism revolving around his base in New York City. Against most previous writing on Simpson, Henry's biography presents both continuities and discontinuities in the development of modern interdenominational evangelicalism out of the denominational evangelicalism of the nineteenth century. "Long overdue and a breath of fresh air! Through careful research, thoughtful synthesis, and skilful writing, A.B. Simpson and the Making of Modern Evangelicalism masterfully situates Simpson's entire life, work, and theology in its specific context. Daryn Henry unpacks Simpson's various contributions to show how he was both in harmony and, at times, at odds with the evangelical mainstream of his day." Bernie Van De Walle, Ambrose University Understanding the formation of conservative evangelical identity, through the life of one of its leading figures. Volumes in this series have been supported by the Jackman Foundation of Toronto. Series One: G.A. Rawlyk, Editor Series Two In memory of George Rawlyk Donald Harman Akenson, Editor This series, founded in 1988 by the late George Rawlyk with the advice of Fr. Edward Jackman and the generous support of the Jackman Foundation, presents front-edge material on all aspects of religious history. It is limited to work done by profesionally trained historians and does not publish devotional or apologetic studies. Roughly one-half of the books published thus far have dealt with some aspects of Canadian religious history (the works of Canadian Methodism are particularly significant), but the series is not limited to Canadian topics. There have been volumes on such diverse topics as the history of the Oral Torah, women in the church in seventeenth-century France, and German Anabaptism. The long-term goal of the series is to help the history of religion escape from two ghettos that held it in thrall in the past: one of these was the definition of the field as dealing only with the more exotic religious foliage of the Ancient Near East. In contrast, we focus mostly on modern topics. We also wish to hasten the escape from the period when religious history of more modern times was mostly confessional: Catholic history was being written by Catholics, Jewish history by Jews, Protestant history by Protestants. Our belief is that the history of religion is too important not to be shared as part of our society's cultural commons. Daryn Henry is a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Virginia.