244 Pages
by
Routledge
244 Pages
by
Routledge
244 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book highlights the life and writings of an itinerant preacher in John Wesley’s Methodist Connexion, Thomas Wride (1733-1807). Detailed studies of such rank and file preachers are rare, as Methodist history has largely been written by and about its leadership. However, Wride’s ministry shows us that the development of this worldwide movement was more complicated and uncertain than many... Read more
List of figures
List of illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgments
List of abbreviations
1 The significance of Thomas Wride
2 Thomas Wride’s story
3 Thomas Wride and John Wesley
4 Thomas Wride, women and family life
5 Thomas Wride, preacher and physician
6 Thomas Wride’s personal and professional networks
7 Wride and the growing pains of John Wesley’s Connexion
8 Defining the Connexion: Wesley, Wride, and the marketplace of ideas
9 Wesley’s Methodism and the supernatural
10 Conclusions
Appendix
Bibliography
Index
Biography
Clive Murray Norris is a Research Fellow at the Oxford Centre for Methodism and Church History, Oxford Brookes University, UK.
