Download or read book Music and the Wesleys written by Nicholas Temperley and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book originated in a conference, Music, Cultural History and the Wesleys, hosted by CHOMBEC (Centre for the History of Music in Britain, the Empire and the Commonwealth) and held at the University of Bristol in July 2007"--Pref.
Download or read book John Wesley s Teachings Volume 2 written by Thomas C. Oden and published by Zondervan Academic. This book was released on 2012-08-07 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first presentation of John Wesley's doctrinal teachings in a systematic form that is also faithful to Wesley's own writings in ebook format. Wesley was a prolific writer and commentator on Scripture, yet it is commonly held that he was not systematic or internally consistent in his theology and doctrinal teachings. On the contrary, Thomas C. Oden intends to demonstrate here that Wesley displayed a remarkable degree of consistency over sixty years of preaching and ministry. The book helps readers to grasp Wesley's essential teachings in an accessible form so that the person desiring to go directly to Wesley's own writings (which fill eighteen volumes) will know exactly where to turn.
Download or read book Illustrative Records of John Wesley and early Methodism written by Samuel Romilly HALL (Wesleyan Minister.) and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Crown and a Cross written by Andrew Goodhead and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2010-04-09 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book critically reviews the origins, development, and decline of the Class Meeting. Beginning with an overview of the religious and societal milieu from the sixteenth century, and examining the heritage of John and Charles Wesley, the inheritance John Wesley took from the past is studied. The rise of the Anglican Unitary Societies is considered and Wesley's active work within those societies drawn out. The arrival of the Moravians in London in 1738 to form a group for Germans resident in London influenced many of the Anglican society members, not least the Wesley brothers. These influences are also considered before the Methodist movement, and particularly the Class Meeting are considered in detail. This book is unique in its drawing together the manner of religious association experienced in the Evangelical Revival and aims to show how Methodism was a fusion of pre-existing ideas, formed into a new working model of religious association. Paramount to the success of the early Methodist was the Class Meeting. This book draws on testimony, diary, and journal records to provide first-hand accounts of people's lives being changed through attendance at the Class Meeting and its making possible growth in grace and holiness. In the early period of Methodism the Class Meeting was the crown to Methodist identity. An analysis of the primary aims of this meeting, which gave the Methodist people their distinct characteristics, is followed by a study of the social identity and group processes that occurred when prospective members considered joining the Methodists. The decline of the Class Meeting to 1791 forms the concluding chapters, and, using three classic sociological models-Weber (routinisation), Durkheim (totemism), and Troeltsch (primary/secondary religion)-as themes, the reasons why the class became a cross are examined. Journal, diary, and testimonial material support the Methodists' declining interest in the class that led to its irrelevance for a people seeking respectability rather than an immediate encounter with God.
Download or read book The Works of Augustus M Toplady written by Augustus Toplady and published by . This book was released on 1794 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book William Blake s Religious Vision written by Jennifer Jesse and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2013-02-14 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this innovative study, Jesse challenges the prevailing view of Blake as an antinomian and describes him as a theological moderate who defended an evangelical faith akin to the Methodism of John Wesley. She arrives at this conclusion by contextualizing Blake’s works not only within Methodism, but in relation to other religious groups he addressed in his art, including the Established Church, deism, and radical religions. Further, she analyzes his works by sorting out the theological “road signs” he directed to each audience. This approach reveals Blake engaging each faction through its most prized beliefs, manipulating its own doctrines through visual and verbal guide-posts designed to communicate specifically with that group. She argues that, once we collate Blake’s messages to his intended audiences—sounding radical to the conservatives and conservative to the radicals—we find him advocating a system that would have been recognized by his contemporaries as Wesleyan in orientation. This thesis also relies on an accurate understanding of eighteenth-century Methodism: Jesse underscores the empirical rationalism pervading Wesley’s theology, highlighting differences between Methodism as practiced and as publicly caricatured. Undergirding this project is Jesse’s call for more rigorous attention to the dramatic character of Blake’s works. She notes that scholars still typically use phrases like “Blake says” or “Blake believes,” followed by some claim made by a Blakean character, without negotiating the complex narrative dynamics that might enable us to understand the rhetorical purposes of that statement, as heard by Blake’s respective audiences. Jesse maintains we must expect to find reflections in Blake’s works of all the theologies he engaged. The question is: what was he doing with them, and why? In order to divine what Blake meant to communicate, we must explore how those he targeted would have perceived his arguments. Jesse concludes that by analyzing the dramatic character of Blake’s works theologically through this wide-angled, audience-oriented approach, we see him orchestrating a grand rapprochement of the extreme theologies of his day into a unified vision that integrates faith and reason.
Download or read book Catalogue of Printed Books written by British Museum. Department of Printed Books and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 934 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The English Church in the Eighteenth Century written by Charles John Abbey and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Proceedings of the Wesley Historical Society written by Wesley Historical Society and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: List of members in v. 4-5, 7-10.
Download or read book Wesley and the People Called Methodists written by Richard P. Heitzenrater and published by Abingdon Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The practical and theological development of eighteenth-century Methodism.
Download or read book The Methodist Conference in America written by Dr. Russell E. Richey and published by Kingswood Books. This book was released on 1996-08-01 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Methodist lexicon, 'conference' refers to a body of preachers (and later, of laity as well) that exercises legislative, judicial, and executive functions for the church or some portion thereof. 'Conference,' says Richey, defined Methodism in more than political ways: on conference hinged religious time, religious space, religious belonging, religious structure, even religiosity itself. Methodist histories uniformly recognize, typically even feature, conference's centrality, but describe that in primarily constitutional and political terms. The purpose of this volume is to present conference as a distinctively American Methodist manner of being the church, a multifaceted mode of spirituality, unity, mission, governance, and fraternity that American Methodists have lived and operated better than they have interpreted.
Download or read book Health and Medicine in the Methodist Tradition written by E. Brooks Holifield and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2019-02-28 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As E. Brooks Holifield notes in his introduction, “John Wesley, the founder of the Methodist movement, would have relished the opportunity to write this volume. He recognized the power of religious traditions, and he thought that issues of health and medicine were profoundly interwoven into the texture of religious faith. All ten themes that have concerned [this series] - healing and well-being, suffering and madness, passages and sexuality, dying and caring, morality and dignity - were among the topics that Wesley believed should interest Christians.” In the attempt to show how a Wesleyan understanding of theology might inform a modern Methodist sensibility, the author has structured his treatment of Health and Medicine in the Methodist Tradition around the polarities of health and healing, holiness and happiness, penalty and promise, love and law, restraint and responsibility, and possibility and limit. These are not to be construed as opposites or as mutually exclusive extremes. Each member of each pair both checks and enriches the other. They provide a way of establishing boundaries; they mark the way of a journey - “the way of salvation,” or the way of love.
Download or read book The Works of Rev John Fletcher written by John Fletcher and published by . This book was released on 1836 with total page 856 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Works of A M Toplady New Edition with an Enlarged Memoir of the Author written by Augustus Montague TOPLADY and published by . This book was released on 1828 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Full and Present Salvation in Christ written by Klaus Arnold and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2018-04-11 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theodor Jellinghaus (1841-1912), theologian and leader of the Heiligungsbewegung (Holiness Movement), was one of the fathers of the Gemeinschaftsbewegung (Fellowship Movement) in Germany, a new organized expression of the Pietist tradition in nineteenth-century German Protestantism. The key event for the life and work of Jellinghaus was his participation in the convention on Christian holiness in England in 1874. He wanted to bring the new insights he gained there to revive the Protestant and Pietist traditions in the land of the Reformation. Jellinghaus believed that the doctrine of sanctification by faith in Jesus Christ, which he had heard in England, was an indispensable consequence of and necessary accompaniment to a clear doctrine of justification. His special concern in the Gemeinschaftsbewegung was the education of laypersons. The last phase of his life was characterized by crisis and illness, which were related to each other and directly and indirectly led to his so-called recantation. We can only do justice to the overall persona of Jellinghaus if we differentiate between the former (healthy) and later (ill) Jellinghaus. He has to be viewed in the contradictions and tensions within the development of the Heiligungsbewegung and the Gemeinschaftsbewegung as well as his theological teachings. This book is the first comprehensive treatment of Jellinghaus, which not only focuses on his doctrine of sanctification, but assesses his overall life and work, that is, his theological system and personal involvement in and contribution to the development of the Heiligungsbewegung and Gemeinschaftsbewegung in Germany.
Download or read book The Financial Aspects of John Wesley s British Methodism 1720 1791 written by Samuel J. Rogal and published by Edwin Mellen Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study focuses upon the fiscal aspects of John Wesley's evangelical organization, and explicates and analyzes the role of money within Wesley's concept of, and attempt at, theological and social reform. It consists of a general discussion of Wesley and money, and a Ledger which outlines, year by year, the specific receipts and payments of Wesley and the Methodist Conference.
Download or read book The Separation of the Methodists from the Church of England written by Robert Leonard Tucker and published by New York city : Printed by the Methodist book concern. This book was released on 1918 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
