David Bebbington

David William Bebbington, born on 25 July 1949, is a British historian who is a professor of history at the University of Stirling in Scotland and a distinguished visiting professor of history at Baylor University. He was born in Nottingham and raised in Sherwood, studied at Jesus College, Cambridge, and has taught at Stirling since 1976, where he has been Professor of History since 1999. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and the Royal Historical Society and was President of the Ecclesiastical History Society in 2006 and 2007. He is widely known for his definition of evangelicalism, the Bebbington quadrilateral, first provided in his 1989 study Evangelicalism in Modern Britain, which names biblicism, crucicentrism, conversionism and activism as the four qualities that define evangelical convictions and attitudes.