Wesley and the People Called Methodists: Second Edition - Softcover

Heitzenrater, Richard P.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 142674224X ISBN 13: 9781426742248

Publisher: Abingdon Press, 2013

Synopsis

This second edition of Richard P. Heitzenrater's groundbreaking survey of the Wesleyan movement is the story of the many people who contributed to the theology, organization, and mission of Methodism. This updated version addresses recent research from the past twenty years; includes an extensive bibliography; and fleshes out such topics as the means of grace; Conference: "Large" Minutes: Charles Wesley: Wesley and America; ordination; prison ministry; apostolic church; music; children; Susanna and Samuel Wesley; the Christian library; itinerancy; connectionalism; doctrinal standards; and John Wesley as historian, Oxford don, and preacher.

About this title

About the Author:

Richard P. Heitzenrater is William Kellon Quick Professor Emeritus of Church History and Wesley Studies at The Divinity School, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina; and General Editor of the Bicentennial Edition of The Works of John Wesley. He is also a member of the board of Kingswood Books. He lives in Durham, North Carolina.

About this edition

• Publisher: Abingdon Press
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 142674224X
• ISBN 13: 9781426742248
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 406