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British Methodist Revivalism and the Eclipse of Ecclesiology book cover

1st Edition

British Methodist Revivalism and the Eclipse of Ecclesiology

By James E. Pedlar Copyright 2024
194 Pages
by Routledge

194 Pages
by Routledge

194 Pages
by Routledge
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Revivalism was one of the main causes of division in nineteenth-century British Methodism, but the role of revivalist theology in these splits has received scant scholarly attention. In this book, James E. Pedlar demonstrates how the revivalist variant of Methodist spirituality and theology empowered its adherents and helped foster new movements, even as it undermined the Spirit’s work through... Read more

1 Introduction

2 ‘A Division of Heart’: Separation and the Spirit in the Later Wesley

3 ‘We Shall Have No Mastery’: Hugh Bourne and the Emergence of Primitive Methodism

4 Revival and the Reformers: James Caughey and the Schism of 1849

5 Separate but Non-sectarian: The Salvation Army’s Ecclesiological Ambiguities

6 Catholicity of the Heart: Samuel Chadwick and Methodist Union

7 Conclusion: Revivalism’s Mixed Legacy

Biography

James E. Pedlar is the Donald N. and Kathleen G. Bastian Chair of Wesley Studies and an Associate Professor of Theology at Tyndale University in Toronto. He is a Fellow of the Manchester Wesley Research Centre and has served as President of the Wesleyan Theological Society.

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