Meet the Methodists
Author: Charles Livingstone Allen
Publisher:
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 100
ISBN-13: 9780687246502
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An introduction to the history and theology of the United Methodist Church and its founder, John Wesley.
Author: Charles Livingstone Allen
Publisher:
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 100
ISBN-13: 9780687246502
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An introduction to the history and theology of the United Methodist Church and its founder, John Wesley.
Author: Richard P. Heitzenrater
Publisher: Abingdon Press
Published: 2013-08-20
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 1426765533
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This second edition of Richard P. Heitzenrater's groundbreaking survey of the Wesleyan movement is the story of the many people who contributed to the theology, organization, and mission of Methodism. This updated version addresses recent research from the past twenty years; includes an extensive bibliography; and fleshes out such topics as the means of grace; Conference: "Large" Minutes: Charles Wesley: Wesley and America; ordination; prison ministry; apostolic church; music; children; Susanna and Samuel Wesley; the Christian library; itinerancy; connectionalism; doctrinal standards; and John Wesley as historian, Oxford don, and preacher.
Author: William H. Willimon
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Published: 2007-04-19
Total Pages: 153
ISBN-13: 161164061X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This brief introduction spells out the major beliefs of the United Methodist Church in a clear, nontechnical style. William Willimon, the beloved United Methodist author, preacher, teacher, and bishop, discusses the great theological themes that United Methodists share in common with all Christians as well as the particular accents and emphases that characterize United Methodist understandings of Christian doctrines. In his engaging style, Willimon opens the door for further study, challenging the reader to move toward a continuing reflection on their faith. This guide will be of great value to those who are beginning their study of United Methodist beliefs as well as those who have long been in the church and want a helpful way to refresh their understandings of the distinctiveness of United Methodist doctrine.
Author: David Hempton
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2005-01-01
Total Pages: 294
ISBN-13: 0300106149
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Hempton explores the rise of Methodism from its unpromising origins as a religious society within the Church of England in the 1730s to a major international religious movement by the 1880s.
Author: Russell E. Richey
Publisher: Abingdon Press
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 727
ISBN-13: 0687246733
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This Sourcebook, part of a two-volume set, The Methodist Experience in America, contains documents from between 1760 and 1998 pertaining to the movements constitutive of American United Methodism.
Author: Dee E. Andrews
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2010-07-01
Total Pages: 384
ISBN-13: 1400823595
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Methodists and Revolutionary America is the first in-depth narrative of the origins of American Methodism, one of the most significant popular movements in American history. Placing Methodism's rise in the ideological context of the American Revolution and the complex social setting of the greater Middle Atlantic where it was first introduced, Dee Andrews argues that this new religion provided an alternative to the exclusionary politics of Revolutionary America. With its call to missionary preaching, its enthusiastic revivals, and its prolific religious societies, Methodism competed with republicanism for a place at the center of American culture. Based on rare archival sources and a wealth of Wesleyan literature, this book examines all aspects of the early movement. From Methodism's Wesleyan beginnings to the prominence of women in local societies, the construction of African Methodism, the diverse social profile of Methodist men, and contests over the movement's future, Andrews charts Methodism's metamorphosis from a British missionary organization to a fully Americanized church. Weaving together narrative and analysis, Andrews explains Methodism's extraordinary popular appeal in rich and compelling new detail.
Author: Scott J. Jones
Publisher: Abingdon Press
Published: 2010-09-01
Total Pages: 489
ISBN-13: 1426725590
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Throughout this ebook, Scott J. Jones insists that for United Methodists the ultimate goal of doctrine is holiness. Importantly, he clarifies the nature and the specific claims of ""official"" United Methodist doctrine in a way that moves beyond the current tendency to assume the only alternatives are a rigid dogmatism or an unfettered theological pluralism. In classic Wesleyan form, Jones' driving concern is with recovering the vital role of forming believers in the ""mind of Christ, "" so that they might live more faithfully in their many settings in our world."
Author: Robert Leonard Tucker
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published: 2008-12-02
Total Pages: 186
ISBN-13: 1725224046
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