Robert Evans
Robert Evans was born in Sydney, Australia, in 1937. His family's religious background was in a tiny hyper-Calvinist Baptist denomination. He trained for the Methodist Ministry, and was ordained by the New South Wales Conference in 1967. He served as a Circuit minister, and subsequently also in the Uniting Church, retiring in 1998.
He graduated from the University of Sydney, majoring in philosophy and modern history. In his private researches he has specialised in studying modern evangelical revivals, the great awakenings, and the literature relating to these movements, assembling a large private library about these subjects. He is currently the President of the Uniting Church Records and Historical Society in New South Wales.
Articles by Robert Evans:
25 May 2021
4.5 MINS
A Study of Surviving Published Materials about Evangelical Revivals in Australia up to 1880. Dapto Revival 1838 The year 1838 saw the arrival of a layman, John Vidler, in the Illawarra area, to work as a farm labourer. "He held his first service some time [...]
