Social action a historical perspective

EVANGELICALS AND SOCIAL ACTION:
From John Wesley to John Stott
By Ian J. Shaw
IVP. 304 pages. £14.99
ISBN 978 1 783 596 581

‘Exhilarated, Sobered, Hopeful.’ That is how Mark Greene describes his emotions as he opens the Foreword to this timely book.

I remember seeing a cartoon of a cuckoo clock with two small doors. Under one door was the word evangelism, under the other social action. The caption of the cartoon was: ‘Why is it that we don’t seem to be able to come out at the same time?’