Book Description
Traces the history of Methodism from the eighteenth-century Wesleyan movement through successive stages of theological development to its role in today's ecumenical movement
Author : Frederick Abbott Norwood
Publisher :
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 15,16 MB
Release : 1974
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780687396412
Traces the history of Methodism from the eighteenth-century Wesleyan movement through successive stages of theological development to its role in today's ecumenical movement
Author : Russell E. Richey
Publisher : Abingdon Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 10,67 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1426742274
Author : David Hempton
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 35,49 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 : James Monroe Buckley
Publisher :
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 45,58 MB
Release : 1898
Category : Methodism
ISBN :
Author : John Fletcher Hurst
Publisher :
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 38,70 MB
Release : 1902
Category : Methodism
ISBN :
Author : Philip Schaff
Publisher :
Page : 742 pages
File Size : 30,38 MB
Release : 1896
Category : United States
ISBN :
Author : John H. Wigger
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 41,6 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780252069949
In 1770 there were fewer than 1,000 Methodists in America. Fifty years later, the church counted more than 250,000 adherents. Identifying Methodism as America's most significant large-scale popular religious movement of the antebellum period, John H. Wigger reveals what made Methodism so attractive to post-revolutionary America. Taking Heaven by Storm shows how Methodism fed into popular religious enthusiasm as well as the social and economic ambitions of the "middling people on the make"--skilled artisans, shopkeepers, small planters, petty merchants--who constituted its core. Wigger describes how the movement expanded its reach and fostered communal intimacy and "intemperate zeal" by means of an efficient system of itinerant and local preachers, class meetings, love feasts, quarterly meetings, and camp meetings. He also examines the important role of African Americans and women in early American Methodism and explains how the movement's willingness to accept impressions, dreams, and visions as evidence of the work and call of God circumvented conventional assumptions about education, social standing, gender, and race. A pivotal text on the role of religion in American life, Taking Heaven by Storm shows how the enthusiastic, egalitarian, entrepreneurial, lay-oriented spirit of early American Methodism continues to shape popular religion today.
Author : Frederick A. Norwood
Publisher :
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 12,9 MB
Release : 1974
Category : Religion
ISBN :
Author : John Fletcher Hurst
Publisher :
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 29,23 MB
Release : 1902
Category : Methodism
ISBN :
Author : Emory Stevens Bucke
Publisher :
Page : 776 pages
File Size : 14,56 MB
Release : 1964
Category : Methodism
ISBN :