Wesley and the Wesleyans

"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... Full description

Main Author:	Kent, John.
Published:	Cambridge, U.K. : Cambridge University Press, 2002
Subjects:	WESLEY, JOHN. METHODIST CHURCH - GREAT BRITAIN - HISTORY.
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082		\|a 287.0924 \|b WES.K
100		\|a Kent, John.
245		\|a Wesley and the Wesleyans
260		\|a Cambridge, U.K. : \|b Cambridge University Press, \|c 2002.
300		\|a 229p.
500		\|a Includes Index and Bibliographical References.
520		\|a "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.
650		\|a WESLEY, JOHN.
650		\|a METHODIST CHURCH - GREAT BRITAIN - HISTORY.
900		\|a 32001
949		\|a RTC Library \|b Non Fiction \|h 287.0924 WES.K \|p R331703220 \|s Books

Wesley and the Wesleyans

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