Kent J. Wesley and the Wesleyans: Religion in Eighteenth-Century Britain

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Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2004. - 238 p.

A critical contribution to the history of Britain and the U.S., this book demonstrates how the search for personal supeatural power lay at the heart of the so-called eighteenth-century English evangelical revival. John Kent rejects the view that the Wesleys rescued the British from moral and spiritual decay by reviving primitive Christianity. The study is of interest to everyone conceed with the history of Methodism and the Church of England, the Evangelical tradition, and eighteenth-century religious thought and experience.

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