The Works of John Wesley, Volume 10: The Methodist Societies, the Minutes of Conference - Hardcover

Henry D. Rack; John Wesley

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1426711905 ISBN 13: 9781426711909

Publisher: Abingdon Press, 2011

Synopsis

The Methodist Societies: The Minutes of Conference reproduces the Minutes as a formal record and conveys the nature and role of the Conference in Methodist life and polity during John Wesley's time. <br /> <br /> Included is information from letters and diaries of preachers as well as from John Wesley, some of which is newly published here. This material highlights some of the problems that arose in the meetings themselves, which in Wesley's eyes was merely summoned to advise him but, in his later years, almost imperceptibly became more of a legislative and ruling body, increasingly preoccupied with what would happen after Wesley's death. Despite the breadth of this volume, the American Minutes are not included, partly because they were in no sense Wesley's own work and partly because they could not be, at present, edited to the required standard. The Irish Minutes are included in an appendix.

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About the Author

Randy L. Maddox is William Kellon Quick Professor of Church History and Wesley Studies at The Divinity School, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina; and Associate General Editor of the Bicentennial Edition of the Works of John Wesley. He is a recognized authority on both John Wesley's theology and the theological developments in later Methodism. Among his special interests are the science and religion dialogue, the nature of evangelicalism, and the theological distinctives of Eastern Orthodoxy. Maddox is an ordained elder in the Dakotas Conference of The United Methodist Church.<br /><br />William B. Lawrence is dean and professor of American Church History at Perkins School of Theology, Southern Methodist University (Dallas), where he has served since 2002. Dr. Lawrence is an ordained elder in the North Texas Annual Conference. He is the author of<i> Sundays in </i><i>New York</i> and <i>Methodism in Recovery</i>, and he has co-edited numerous books, including <i>Connectionalism: Ecclesiology, </i><i>Mission</i><i> and Identity

Edition details

• Publisher: Abingdon Press
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1426711905
• ISBN 13: 9781426711909
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 1072
• Editor: Henry D. Rack