As you can see from the table of contents the author traces English eucharistic thought from the Reformation through to the Puritans and on to the Evangelical revivals of the 1700s and then on to the most significant Evangelical divines of the 1800s such as Bishop Ryle. The author also then discusses the Evangelical response to Tractarianism, modern ecumenism and the influence of the Charismatic movement on the Church of England. It is helpful to note that none other than John Wesley celebrated Holy communion five times a week and that George Whitefield too longed to partake of it, sometimes twice on one day. Scholars have concluded that the Wesleyan revivals were also a revival of a high view of the Eucharist inside the Church of England as some 250 hymns were written about the blessings and benefits one receives from the Lord's Supper by none other than Charles Wesley during the first wave of Evangelical revivals that swept through Britain and the Colonies in the mid 1700s. When Evangelicals weren't reacting to High Churchmanship or fending off Anglo-Catholicism we see that they too held a high view of the Eucharist as a means of grace despite the potential problems that might arise when one holds an even higher view of justification by faith.
