Wesley and the Wesleyans / John Kent.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kent, John, 1923- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wesley, John, 1703-1791.

Wesley, John.

Methodist Church--England--History.

Methodist Church.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vi, 229 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Other Title:

Wesley & the Wesleyans

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2002.

Language Note:

English

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.

Contents:

Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; 1 The Protestant recovery; 2 Early Wesleyanism: 1740...1770; 3 Later Wesleyanism: 1770...1800; 4 Women in Wesleyanism; 5 Anglican responses; 6 Conclusions; Notes; Select bibliography; Index

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

ISBN:

1-107-11233-8

0-511-20240-7

1-280-15182-X

9786610151820

0-511-84110-8

0-511-11612-8

0-511-03948-4

0-511-32994-6

0-511-05290-1

OCLC:

252478568