John Wesley (1703-1791), leader of British Methodism, was one of the most prolific literary figures of the eighteenth century, responsible for creating and disseminating a massive corpus of religious literature and for instigating a sophisticated programme of reading, writing and publishing within his Methodist Societies. John Wesley, Practical Divinity and the Defence of Literature takes the influential genre of practical divinity as a framework for understanding Wesley's role as an author, editor and critic of popular religious writing. It asks why he advocated the literary arts as a valid aspect of his evangelical theology, and how his Christian poetics impacted upon the religious experience of his followers.
ISBN: | 9780367891589 |
Publication date: | 12th December 2019 |
Author: | Emma Salgård Cunha |
Publisher: | Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis |
Format: | Paperback |
Pagination: | 200 pages |
Series: | Routledge Methodist Studies Series |
Genres: |
Protestantism and Protestant Churches History of religion Christianity Literary studies: general History |