Fighting over the Dead: John Wesley, Ritualism, and the Politics of Church and State in 1870s England
John Wesley was to play a surprisingly contemporary role in the political debates of Victorian England. Nonconformist Methodists and High Church Anglicans battled for rights' to the evangelical leader. Presenting their differing Wesleys' to the world, the authors of books and pamphlets p...
| Published in: | Wesley and Methodist studies |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Penn State Univ. Press
[2018]
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Wesley and Methodist studies
Year: 2018, Volume: 10, Issue: 1, Pages: 24-45 |
| IxTheo Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy KDG Free church |
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| Summary: | John Wesley was to play a surprisingly contemporary role in the political debates of Victorian England. Nonconformist Methodists and High Church Anglicans battled for rights' to the evangelical leader. Presenting their differing Wesleys' to the world, the authors of books and pamphlets painted Wesley as one of their own within a contentious political environment with high stakes for the establishment of Church and State. That Wesley would have found Victorian politics foreign was not the authors' concern. The episode discussed here represents one in the long journey to grasp the multifaceted and elusive Wesley and to define Methodism. |
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| ISSN: | 2291-1731 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Wesley and Methodist studies
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