John Wesley: A Brand from the Burning
By Roy Hattersley.
Description
John Wesley led the Second English Reformation. His Methodist "Connexion" was divided from the Church of England, not by dogma and doctrine but by the new relationship which it created between clergy and people. Throughout a life tortured by doubt about true faith and tormented by a series of bizarre relationships with women, Wesley kept his promise to "live and die an ordained priest of the Established Church". However, by the end of the long pilgrimage - from the Oxford Holy Club through colonial Georgia to every market place in England - he knew that separation was in...
ISBN(s)
0316860204, 9780316860208
