The Works of John Wesley Volume 25: Letters I (1721-1739) - Hardcover

Baker, Frank

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0687462169 ISBN 13: 9780687462162

Publisher: Abingdon Press, 1980

Synopsis

Although many of the letters of John Wesley are of value as literature--especially as crisp statements of his views or desires with little attempt at embellishment--their major importance is as a revelation of him as a man and of the people and events of his day, especially those linked with the Methodist movement. They furnish us, in fact, with a portrait through seventy years that is both more revealing in detail and fuller in coverage than any other source.

The correspondence presented in this first of seven planned volumes of Wesley's Letters offers many intimate glimpses of the man during his early years which are available nowhere else: of his strong family ties, of his leaning upon his mother for theological and spiritual as well as moral guidance, of his bedazzlement by Mary Pendarves (later Mrs. Delany), of the noble experiment of the Holy Club at Oxford, of the struggle between spiritual ideals and worldly reality during his brief ministry in Georgia, and of the birth of the Methodist societies in London and Bristol.

About this title

About the Author:

Frank Baker is Professor Emeritus of English Church History at Duke Divinity School.

About this edition

• Publisher: Abingdon Press
• Publication date: 1980
• ISBN 10: 0687462169
• ISBN 13: 9780687462162
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 792