Methodist Review - Softcover

Various Authors

 
9780461621921: Methodist Review

Synopsis

"Methodist Review" by Various authors. This issue from the early 1840s presents a composite of theological essays, biographical sketches, and critical notices aimed at sustaining Methodist evangelical reform, biblical literacy, and institutional life. It features a temperance tract, discussions on biblical knowledge and hermeneutics, a biographical review of the Wesleys, and a debate on temptation, alongside critical notices of contemporary religious works. Additional local summaries survey missionary activity, printing and publishing, church governance, and historical memory within Methodism. The issue blends doctrinal reflection with practical concerns—temperance, education, mission expansion, and clerical governance—while promoting scholarly study of languages, archaeology, and geography to illumine Scripture and strengthen ministry. Together, these pieces illuminate a Transatlantic Methodist worldview that values doctrinal fidelity, disciplined governance, moral reform, and the dissemination of religious knowledge through print and education.

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