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Wesley and the Wesleyans. Religion in Eighteenth-Century Britain

Categorie	Religie & Theologie
Boeknummer	#229465
Titel	Wesley and the Wesleyans. Religion in Eighteenth-Century Britain
Auteur	Kent, John
Boektype	Paperback
Uitgeverij	Cambridge University Press
Jaar van uitgave	2002
ISBN10	0521455553
ISBN13	9780521455558
Taal	Engels
Samenvatting	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' a... (Lees verder)chievements are reassessed; there is fresh, unsentimental description of the role of women in the movement, and an unexpectedly sympathetic picture emerges of Hanoverian Anglicanism.
Pagina's	229
Conditie	Goed — Annotations and underlinings with pencil.
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