Tag: Methodist

Free Download Eryn M. White, "The Welsh Methodist Society: The Early Societies in South-west Wales 1737-1750"
English | ISBN: 1786835797 | 2020 | 352 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
The evangelical, or Methodist, revival in the eighteenth century had a major impact on Welsh religion, society, and culture. One of its outcomes was the unprecedented growth of Nonconformity by the nineteenth century, which established a very clear difference between Wales and England in religious terms. Since the Welsh Calvinistic Methodist movement did not split from the Church to form a separate denomination until 1811, it existed in its early years solely as a collection of local society meetings. Focusing on those early societies in southwest Wales, this study examines the grass roots of the Methodist movement, identifying the features that led to its subsequent remarkable success. At the heart of the book lie the experiences of the men and women who were members of the societies, along with explorations of their social and economic background and the factors that attracted them to the Methodist cause.

Free Download Samuel Avery-Quinn, "Cities of Zion: The Holiness Movement and Methodist Camp Meeting Towns in America "
English | ISBN: 1498576540 | 2019 | 340 pages | PDF | 5 MB
Cities of Zion: The Holiness Movement and Methodist Camp Meeting Towns in America follows Methodists and holiness advocates from their urban worlds of mid-century New York City and Philadelphia out into the wilderness where they found green worlds of religious retreat in that most traditional of Methodist theaters: the camp meeting. Samuel Avery-Quinn examines the transformation of American Methodist camp meeting revivalism from the Gilded Age through the twenty-first Century. These transformations are a window into the religious worlds of middle-class Protestants as they struggled with economic and social change, industrialization, moral leisure, theological controversies, and radically changing city life and landscape.

Free Download Clive Murray Norris, "Thomas Wride and Wesley’s Methodist Connexion "
English | ISBN: 0367404729 | 2020 | 228 pages | EPUB | 5 MB
This book highlights the life and writings of an itinerant preacher in John Wesley’s Methodist Connexion, Thomas Wride (1733-1807). Detailed studies of such rank and file preachers are rare, as Methodist history has largely been written by and about its leadership. However, Wride’s ministry shows us that the development of this worldwide movement was more complicated and uncertain than many accounts suggest.

Free Download Ryszard Michalak, "The Methodist Church in Poland "
English | ISBN: 1032014261 | 2021 | 210 pages | EPUB | 2 MB

Free Download Jane Platt, "Anglican-Methodist Ecumenism "
English | ISBN: 0367628155 | 2021 | 278 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
This book offers a detailed analysis of one of the key episodes of twentieth-century ecumenism, focusing on the efforts made to reconcile the Church of England and the Methodist Church of Great Britain in the years since the First World War.

Free Download James E. Pedlar, "British Methodist Revivalism and the Eclipse of Ecclesiology "
English | ISBN: 103211147X | 2023 | 194 pages | EPUB, PDF | 738 KB + 26 MB
Revivalism was one of the main causes of division in nineteenth-century British Methodism, but the role of revivalist theology in these splits has received scant scholarly attention. In this book, James E. Pedlar demonstrates how the revivalist variant of Methodist spirituality and theology empowered its adherents and helped foster new movements, even as it undermined the Spirit’s work through the structures of the church. Beginning with an examination of unresolved issues in John Wesley’s ecclesiology, Pedlar identifies a trend of increasing marginalisation of the church among revivalists, via an examination of three key figures: Hugh Bourne (1772-1852), James Caughey (1810-1891), and William Booth (1860-1932). He concludes by examining the more catholic and irenic theology of Samuel Chadwick (1860-1932), the leading Methodist revivalist of the early twentieth century who became a strong advocate of Methodist Union. Pedlar shows that these theological differences must be considered, alongside social and political factors, in any well-rounded assessment of the division and eventual reunification of British Methodism.