The Letters of Samuel Wesley

The Letters of Samuel Wesley
Author: Samuel Wesley
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Total Pages: 588
Release: 2001
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780198164234

Samuel Wesley (1766-1837) was the son of the hymn-writer Charles Wesley and the nephew of John Wesley, the founder of Methodism. He was one of the leading composers in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century England, and the finest organist of his day. He was also a misfit and a rebel, renowned for his outspoken views, his frequently wild behavior, and his irregular personal life. His music has become increasingly well known in recent years, and these letters to his friends and fellow musicians, over 400 of which are gathered together here for the first time, present both a witty, perceptive, and unparalleled portrait of Wesley the man, and an insiders view of life in the music profession in London in the early nineteenth-century.

The Letters of Charles Wesley

The Letters of Charles Wesley
Author: Charles Wesley
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 510
Release: 2013-04-25
Genre: History
ISBN: 0199259968

This first volume of a two volume edition contains letters written between 1727 and 1756 by the famous hymn writer, poet and co-founder of Methodism, Charles Wesley (1707-1788). The edition brings together texts which are located in libraries and archives from across the globe and here presents them as a complete collection for the first time.

Susanna Wesley

Susanna Wesley
Author: Susanna Wesley
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 529
Release: 1997-06-26
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0199879451

Susanna Wesley, long celebrated in Methodist mythology as mother of the movement's founders, now takes place as a practical theologian in her own right. This collection of her letters, spiritual diary, and longer treatises (only one of which was published in her lifetime) shows her to be more than the nurturing mother of Wesleyan legend. It also reveals her to be a well-educated woman in conversation with contemporary theological, philosophical, and literary works. Her quotations and allusions include Locke, Pascal, and Herbert, as well as a number of now forgotten theologians. In some of her work, one can distinguish doctrinal and spiritual leanings, such as Arminianism and Christian perfection, that would later find wide expression in the spread of Methodism. Further, her writings demonstrate her readiness, for conscience's sake, to stand up to the men in her life--father, husband, and sons---and the three incarnations of English Protestantism they represented: respectively, Puritanism, the Established Church, and the new Methodist movement. Tracing these incidents in her letters and diaries, a reader can begin to understand how spirituality, even an otherwise conservative one in rather restrictive times, can serve to empower the voice of women.

The Wesleys and the Anglican Mission to Georgia, 1735–1738

The Wesleys and the Anglican Mission to Georgia, 1735–1738
Author: John Thomas Scott
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 391
Release: 2020-10-23
Genre: History
ISBN: 1611463114

The Wesleys and the Anglican Mission to Georgia, 1735-1738 considers the fascinating early history of a small group of men commissioned by trustees in England to spread Protestantism both to new settlers and indigenous people living in Georgia. Four minister-missionaries arrived in 1736, but after only two years these men detached themselves from the colonial enterprise, and the Mission effectively ended in 1738. Tracing the rise and fall of this endeavor, Scott’s study focuses on key figures in the history of the Mission including the layman, Charles Delamotte, and the ministers, John and Charles Wesley, Benjamin Ingham, and George Whitefield. In Scott’s innovative historical approach, neglected archival sources generate a detailed narrative account that reveals how these men’s personal experiences and personal networks had a significant impact on the inner-workings and trajectory of the Mission. The original group of missionaries who traveled to Georgia was composed of men already bound together by family relations, friendships, and shared lines of mentorship. Once in the colony, the missionaries’ prospects altered as they developed close ties with other missionaries (including a group of Moravians) and other settlers (John Wesley returned to England after his romantic relationship with Sophy Hopkey soured). Structures of imperialism, class, and race underlying colonial ideology informed the Anglican Mission in the era of trustee Georgia. The Wesleys and the Anglican Mission to Georgia enriches this historical picture by illuminating how a different set of intricacies, rooted in personal dynamics, was also integral to the events of this period. In Scott’s study, the history of the expansive eighteenth-century Atlantic world emerges as a riveting account of life unfolding on a local and individual level.

Memorials of the Wesley Family

Memorials of the Wesley Family
Author: George John Stevenson
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 594
Release: 2024-06-11
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 3385511615

Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.

Charles Wesley and the Struggle for Methodist Identity

Charles Wesley and the Struggle for Methodist Identity
Author: Gareth Lloyd
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2007-04-12
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0199295743

This is an appraisal of the life and ministry of the Anglican minister and Evangelical leader Charles Welsey, and his contribution to the early Methodist movement. Lloyd's study offers a new perspective on the formative years of a denomination that today has about 80 million members.

John and Charles Wesley

John and Charles Wesley
Author: John Wesley
Publisher: Paulist Press
Total Pages: 434
Release: 1981
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780809123681

The leaders of the Methodist revival that swept 18th-century England, John and Charles Wesley reveal a spirituality that synthesized into a unique blend elements from the Church Fathers, Catholic mystics and Protestant Reformers. The major works of the Wesleys appear in this volume, including John Wesley's Plain Account of Christian Perfection and Charles Wesley's Hymns.