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Wesley and the Wesleyans
John Kent
其他書名
Religion in Eighteenth-Century Britain
出版Cambridge University Press, 2002-07-11
主題Biography & Autobiography / ReligiousHistory / Europe / WesternHistory / Europe / Great Britain / GeneralHistory / Modern / GeneralHistory / Social HistoryReligion / HistoryReligion / Christianity / Methodist
ISBN05214555539780521455558
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=DPW5YFBTBBQC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋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.