John Wesley in America by Geordan Hammond

Understanding the centrality of primitive Christianity to Wesley's thinking and pastoral methods is essential to comprehending his experience in America. The ideal of restoring the doctrine, discipline, and practice of the early church in the pristine Georgia wilderness was the prime motivating factor in Wesley's decision to embark for Georgia and in his clerical practice in the colony.

The Georgia mission, for Wesley, was a laboratory for implementing his views of primitive Christianity. In order to re-evaluate this period of Wesley's life, Hammond carefully considers Wesley's writings and those of his contemporaries. John Wesley in America addresses Wesley's Georgia mission in fresh perspective by interpreting it in its immediate context. Geordan Hammond presents the first book-length study of Wesley's experience in America, providing an innovative contribution to debates about the significance of a formative period of Wesley's life. Why did John Wesley leave the halls of academia at Oxford to become a Church of England missionary in the newly established colony of Georgia? Was his ministry in America a success or failure? These questions-which have engaged numerous biographers of Wesley-have often been approached from the vantage point of later developments in Methodism. 'WMS' is a collaborative project of the Manchester Wesley Research Centre and The Oxford Centre for Methodism and Church History, Oxford Brookes University.ĭownload John Wesley in America Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle Essays within the thematic scope of 'WMS' from the disciplinary perspectives of literature, philosophy, education and cognate disciplines are welcome.

Its aim is to present significant scholarly contributions that shed light on historical and theological understandings of Methodism broadly conceived. 'WMS' has a dual and broad focus on both history and theology. Its primary historical scope is the eighteenth century to the present however, 'WMS' will publish essays that explore the historical and theological antecedents of the Wesleys (including work on Samuel and Susanna Wesley), Methodism, and the Evangelical Revival. 'Wesley and Methodist Studies ' ('WMS') publishes peer-reviewed essays that examine the life and work of John and Charles Wesley, their contemporaries (proponents or opponents) in the eighteenth-century Evangelical Revival, their historical and theological antecedents, their successors in the Wesleyan tradition, and studies of the Wesleyan and Evangelical traditions today. Download Wesley and Methodist Studies Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

John Wesley in America by Geordan Hammond