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Item Details
Title:
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WESLEY AND THE WESLEYANS
RELIGION IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY BRITAIN |
By: |
John Kent |
Format: |
Electronic book text |
List price:
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£10.00 |
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ISBN 10: |
051103766X |
ISBN 13: |
9780511037665 |
Publisher: |
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS |
Pub. date: |
28 January, 2005 |
Description: |
A revisionary assessment of the Wesleyans and the Church of England in the eighteenth century. |
Synopsis: |
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. |
Publication: |
UK |
Imprint: |
Cambridge University Press (Virtual Publishing) |
Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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