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...

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Main Author:	Kent, John 1923- (Author)
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2002
Subjects:	Wesley, John / 1703-1791 Wesley, John > 1703-1791 Geschichte 1700-1800 Geschichte Methodist Church / England / History Methodismus Großbritannien
Online Access:	DE-12 DE-473 Volltext
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
Item Description:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
Physical Description:	1 online resource (vi, 229 pages)
ISBN:	9780511841101
DOI:	10.1017/CBO9780511841101