RT Book
T1 Wesley and the Wesleyans
A1 Kent, John
LA English
PP Cambridge
PB Cambridge University Press
YR 2002
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/883427311
AB 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.
NO Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
CN BX8276
SN 9780511841101
K1 Wesley, John : 1703-1791
K1 Methodist Church : England : History
K1 Wesley, John ; 1703-1791
K1 Methodist Church ; England ; History
DO 10.1017/CBO9780511841101