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Perm Loc	Circ Status	Edition
RTC Library	Available

International Standard Book Number	9780521455558
Dewey Decimal Classification Number	287.0924 WES.K
Personal Name	Kent, John.
Title Statement	Wesley and the Wesleyans
Imprint	Cambridge, U.K. : Cambridge University Press, 2002.
Physical Description	229p.
General Note	Includes Index and Bibliographical References.
Summary, Etc.	"Wesley and the Wesleyans challenges the cherished myth that at the moment when the Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution were threatening the soul of eighteenth-century England, an evangelical revival - led by the Wesleys - saved it. It will interest anyone concerned with the history of Methodism and the Church of England, the Evangelical tradition, and eighteenth-century religious thought and experience." "The book starts from the assumption that there was no large-scale religious revival during the eighteenth century. Instead, the role of what is called 'primary religion' - the normal human search for ways of drawing supernatural power into the private life of the individual - is analysed in terms of the emergence of the Wesleyan societies from the Church of England. The Wesleys' achievements are reassessed, there is fresh, unsentimental description of the role of women in the movement, and an unexpectedly sympathetic picture emerges of Hanoverian Anglicanism."--Jacket.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term	WESLEY, JOHN.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term	METHODIST CHURCH - GREAT BRITAIN - HISTORY.