John Wesley - Softcover

Green, V. H.H.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0819164615 ISBN 13: 9780819164612

Publisher: University Press Of America, 1987

Synopsis

A compelling short biography of the 'Lord's horseman cantering towards eternity') John Wesley. Using the as yet unpublished Oxford diaries, the author, himself a Fellow of Wesley's Oxford College, reveals Wesley's extraordinarily complex and paradoxical personality. Originally published by Thomas Nelson in 1964.

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Review

Dr. V.H.H. Green...puts everyone in his debt by his new biography John Wesley. Scholarship and readability are more frequently companions to-day than formerly, but here is a perfect marriage of the two. (Mowbray's Journal)

John Wesley lives in these pages; what could be asked more of any biographer?> (Colliss Davies In The Modern Churchman)

...shrewd, clear and readable...it fits Wesley neatly into his age. (Times Literary Supplement)

...shrewd, clear and readable...it fits Wesley neatly into his age. (Times Literary Supplement)

Dr. V.H.H. Green...puts everyone in his debt by his new biography John Wesley. Scholarship and readability are more frequently companions to-day than formerly, but here is a perfect marriage of the two. (Mowbray's Journal)

John Wesley lives in these pages; what could be asked more of any biographer? (Colliss Davies In The Modern Churchman)

Edition details

• Publisher: University Press Of America
• Publication date: 1987
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0819164615
• ISBN 13: 9780819164612
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 174