Book Description
Hempton explores the rise of Methodism from its unpromising origins as a religious society within the Church of England in the 1730s to a major international religious movement by the 1880s.
Author : David Hempton
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 13,62 MB
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0300106149
Hempton explores the rise of Methodism from its unpromising origins as a religious society within the Church of England in the 1730s to a major international religious movement by the 1880s.
Author : Simon Lewis
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 33,70 MB
Release : 2022-01-27
Category : History
ISBN : 0192855751
John Wesley and George Whitefield are remembered as founders of Methodism, one of the most influential movements in the history of modern Christianity. Characterized by open-air and itinerant preaching, eighteenth-century Methodism was a divisive phenomenon, which attracted a torrent of printed opposition, especially from Anglican clergymen. Yet, most of these opponents have been virtually forgotten. Anti-Methodism and Theological Controversy in Eighteenth-Century England is the first large-scale examination of the theological ideas of early anti-Methodist authors. By illuminating a very different perspective on Methodism, Simon Lewis provides a fundamental reappraisal of the eighteenth-century Church of England and its doctrinal priorities. For anti-Methodist authors, attacking Wesley and Whitefield was part of a wider defence of 'true religion', which demonstrates the theological vitality of the much-derided Georgian Church. This book, therefore, places Methodism firmly in its contemporary theological context, as part of the Church of England's continuing struggle to define itself theologically.
Author : Robert Webster
Publisher :
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 28,50 MB
Release : 2012-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781609470487
Originally presented as the author's thesis (D. Phil.)--Oxford University, 2007.
Author : Thomas Boswell Shepherd
Publisher :
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 24,49 MB
Release : 1966
Category : English literature
ISBN :
Author : Andrew O. Winckles
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 15,62 MB
Release : 2019-11-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1789624355
This book traces specific cases of how evangelical and Methodist discourse practices interacted with major cultural and literary events during the long eighteenth century, from the rise of the novel to the Revolution controversy of the 1790s to the shifting ground for women writers leading up to the Reform era in the 1830s.
Author : David Ceri Jones
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 41,59 MB
Release : 2012-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1783165057
The Elect Methodists is the first full-length academic study of Calvinistic Methodism, a movement that emerged in the eighteenth century as an alternative to the better known Wesleyan grouping. While the branch of Methodism led by John Wesley has received significant historical attention, Calvinistic Methodism, especially in England, has not. The book charts the sources of the eighteenth-century Methodist revival in the context of Protestant evangelicalism emerging in continental Europe and colonial North America, and then proceeds to follow the fortunes in both England and Wales of the Calvinistic branch, to the establishing of formal denominations in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
Author : Geordan Hammond
Publisher : Clements Publishing Group
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 30,3 MB
Release : 2012-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1926798139
Wesley and Methodist Studies (WMS) publishes peer-reviewed essays that examine the life and work of John and Charles Wesley, their contemporaries (proponents or opponents) in the eighteenth-century Evangelical Revival, their historical and theological antecedents, their successors in the Wesleyan tradition, and studies of the Wesleyan and Evangelical traditions today. Its primary historical scope is the eighteenth century to the present; however, WMS will publish essays that explore the historical and theological antecedents of the Wesleys (including work on Samuel and Susanna Wesley), Methodism, and the Evangelical Revival. WMS has a dual and broad focus on both history and theology. Its aim is to present significant scholarly contributions that shed light on historical and theological understandings of Methodism broadly conceived. Essays within the thematic scope of WMS from the disciplinary perspectives of literature, philosophy, education and cognate disciplines are welcome. WMS is a collaborative project of the Manchester Wesley Research Centre and The Oxford Centre for Methodism and Church History, Oxford Brookes University.
Author : Richard P. Heitzenrater
Publisher : Abingdon Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 28,24 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Religion
ISBN : 142674224X
The practical and theological development of eighteenth-century Methodism.
Author : Andrew O. Winckles
Publisher :
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 35,38 MB
Release : 2019-10-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 178962018X
Eighteenth-Century Women's Writing and the Methodist Media Revolution argues that Methodism in the eighteenth century was a media event that uniquely combined and utilized different types of media to reach a vast and diverse audience. Specifically, it traces particular cases of how evangelical and Methodist discourse practices interacted with major cultural and literary events during the long eighteenth century, from the rise of the novel through the Revolution controversy of the 1790s to the shifting ground for women writers leading up to the Reform era in the 1830s. The book maps the religious discourse patterns of Methodism onto works by authors like Samuel Richardson, Mary Wollstonecraft, Hannah More, Elizabeth Hamilton, Mary Tighe, and Felicia Hemans. This provides not only a better sense of the religious nuances of these authors' better-known works, but also a fuller consideration of the wide variety of genres in which women were writing during the period, many of which continue to be read as 'non-literary'. The scope of the book leads the reader from the establishment of evangelical forms of discourse in the 1730s to the natural ends of these discourse structures during the era of reform, all the while pointing to ways in which women - Methodist and otherwise - modified these discourse patterns as acts of resistance or subversion.
Author : Vicki Tolar Burton
Publisher :
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 14,77 MB
Release : 2020-09
Category :
ISBN : 9781481314183
Vicki Tolar Burton argues that John Wesley wanted to make ordinary Methodist men and women readers, writers, and public speakers because he understood the powerful role of language for spiritual formation. His understanding came from his own family and education, from his personal spiritual practices and experiences, and from the evidence he saw in the lives of his followers. By examining the intersections of literacy, rhetoric, and spirituality as they occurred in early British Methodism-and by exploring the meaning of these practices for class and gender-the author provides a new understanding of the method of Methodism.