John Wesley, Practical Divinity and the Defence of Literature

John Wesley, Practical Divinity and the Defence of Literature
ISBN-10
1351395963
ISBN-13
9781351395960
Category
Religion
Pages
200
Language
English
Published
2017-12-12
Publisher
Taylor & Francis
Author
Emma Salgård Cunha

Description

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.

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