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Wesley and the Wesleyans

Author: John Kent
Publisher: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002.
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"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."  Read more...
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Named Person: John Wesley; John Wesley
Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: John Kent
ISBN: 0521455324 9780521455329 0521455553 9780521455558
OCLC Number: 49822765
Description: vi, 229 p. ; 23 cm.
Contents: The Protestant recovery --
Early Wesleyanism, 1740-1770 --
Later Wesleyanism, 1770-1800 --
Women in Wesleyanism --
Anglican responses.
Responsibility: John Kent.
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A revisionary assessment of the Wesleyans and the Church of England in the eighteenth century.  Read more...

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'Professor Kent provides sharply critical yet sympathetic (or at least understanding) portraits of Wesley, Wesleyans, and the place of what he helpfully calls primary religion, and there are deftly Read more...

 
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schema:reviewBody""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."--Jacket."
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