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 Method...
| Subtitles: | Wesley & the Wesleyans |
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge
Cambridge University Press
2002.
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| In: | Year: 2002 |
| Reviews: | [Rezension von: Kent, John, Wesley and the Wesleyans...] (2004) (Glen, Robert)
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Wesley, John 1703-1791
/ England
/ Methodism
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| Further subjects: | B
Wesley, John ; 1703-1791
B Methodist Church (England) History B Wesley, John (1703-1791) B Methodist Church ; England ; History |
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Volltext (lizenzpflichtig) |
| Parallel Edition: | Non-electronic
Print version: 9780521455329 |
| Summary: | 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. |
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| Item Description: | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015) |
| ISBN: | 0511841108 |
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511841101 |