Methodists

Name: Methodists
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ISBN: 9780313220487

ISBN-10: 0313220484

ISBN-13: 9780313220487

Edition: 1996

Authors: James Kirby, Russell Richey, Kenneth Rowe

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Although this work takes proper notice of its origins in John Wesley's 18th-century movement in England, it assumes that in America the people called Methodists developed in distinctive fashion. The volume examines this American version, its organization, leadership, and form of training and incorporating new members. The authors treat Methodism as defined by conferences bound together by a commitment to episcopal leadership and animated by various forms of lay piety. Offering a fresh perspective based on sound, modern scholarship, this study will be of interest to scholars, students, and anyone interested in church history. American Methodists early organized into conferences that defined…

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List price: $83.00
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Publication date: 10/21/1996
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 424
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.21" long x 0.94" tall
Weight: 1.672
Language: English



Series Foreword


Introduction


Bishops America Episcopacy Constitutional


Methodism Two Patterns of Episcopacy Conference


The Methodist Conference General Conference


A Continental Order Conference Politicized


Fratricide Formalization Pluralism Members


Making Moral Christians and Loyal Methodists Class


Meeting and Sunday School, 1816-1866


Sunday School for All, 1866-1915


From Class Meeting to Probationer's Class, 1866-1915


The Sunday School Renaissance, 1915-1935


Making Methodist Disciples, 1939-1968


A Biographical Dictionary of Methodist Leaders


Abbreviations used in This Volume Biographical Entries


A Chronology of American Methodism


Bibliographical


Essay


Index