{"title":"Methodist Churches Books","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"pulp-methodism-the-lives-and-literature-of-silas-joseph-and-salome-hocking-three-cornish-novelists-9781900147255","title":"Pulp Methodism: The Lives and Literature of","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Cornish Hillside Publications","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47850630218071,"sku":"9781900147255","price":17.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/0356919_9781900147255.jpg?v=1717487591"},{"product_id":"methodism-9780198802310","title":"Methodism","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBeginning as a renewal movement within Anglicanism in the eighteenth century, Methodism had become the largest Protestant denomination in the USA in the nineteenth century, and is today one of the most vibrant forms of Christianity. Representing a complex spiritual and evangelistic experiment that involves a passionate commitment to worldwide mission, it covers a global network of Christian denominations. In this Very Short Introduction William J. Abraham trace Methodism from its origins in the work of John Wesley and the hymns of his brother, Charles Wesley, in the eighteenth century, right up to the present. Considering the identity, nature, and history of Methodism, Abraham provides a fresh account of the place of Methodism in the life and thought of the Christian Church. Describing the message of Methodism, and who the Methodists are, he also considers the practices of Methodism, and discusses the global impact of Methodism and its decline in the homelands. Finally Abraham looks forward, and considers the future prospects for Methodism.ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is very much more than an introduction to Methodism. Using considerable scholarship and a keen theological imagination, Abraham sets Methodism within a broader Christian framework. The result is an honest assessment of the development of Methodism; a penetrating assessment of contemporary Methodist churches; and suggestions for how a faithful Methodist tradition might live in apostolic faithfulness. * Gareth J. Powell, Wesley and Methodist Studies  *\u003cbr\u003eWorldwide there have been many published assessments of Methodism some ancient, some modem - some critical, some romantic. I think I am aware of a good many of them. At last there comes a scorcher: Methodism: A Very Short Introduction by William J Abraham (Oxford University Press). The book loses nothing and gains everything for being in the celebrated OUP \"A Very Short Introduction\" series. * Norman Wallwork, Methodist Recorder *\u003cbr\u003eThis very readable work is not only entertaining; it also succeeds in making Methodism accessible to both the scholar and the non-specialist. * Philipp Reisner, Reading Religion *\u003cbr\u003eAbraham's Methodism offers some very helpful insights into the theological history and diversity of the Methodist movement and is therefore a worthwhile read for those interested in Methodist thought. * Christopher Corbin, Oshkosh, Wisconsin, Anglican and Episcopal History *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction1: John Wesley and the origins of Methodism2: Supporting background music3: The people called methodists4: The message of Methodism5: The search for credible alternatives6: The practices of Methodism7: The impact of Methodism8: The decline of Methodism9: The future prospects of MethodismReferencesFurther ReadingIndex","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732789244247,"sku":"9780198802310","price":9.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}]},{"product_id":"aldersgate-and-athens-john-wesley-and-the-foundations-of-christian-belief-9781602582460","title":"Aldersgate and Athens: John Wesley and the","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn his day, John Wesley offered important insights on how to obtain knowledge of God that readily bears fruit in our own times. As premiere Wesleyan scholar William Abraham shows, Wesley's most famous spiritual experience is rife with philosophical significance and implications. Throughout, Abraham brings Wesley's works into fruitful conversation with some of the most important work in contemporary epistemology. Lyrically and succinctly he explores the simultaneous epistemological quest and spiritual pilgrimage that were central to Wesley and the Evangelical Revival of the eighteenth century. In so doing, he provides a learned and eye-opening meditation upon the relationship between reason and faith.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Abraham draws fascinating lines between Aldersgate and Athens that few could have imagined existed. Priority reading for philosophers of religion.\"   --Jerry L. Walls, author of  Heaven: The Logic of Eternal Joy  and editor of  The Oxford Handbook of Eschatology\u003cbr\u003e\"This is Abraham at his best. His thought-provoking comments throughout  will engage the serious reader for years to come.\"   --Richard P. Heitzenrater, The Divinity School, Duke University\u003cbr\u003e...this book is a wonderful addition to any Wesleyan scholar's shelf. -- Lee M. Jefferson, Centre College -- Religious Studies Review\u003cbr\u003eWilliam J. Abraham... has given us a slim but rich volume on the epistemology he believes is extractable from Wesley's experience.... Abraham has done us all a favor by clearly and concisely organizing and arguing the evidence of Wesley's theological epistemology. The case he builds comes from a close reading of the text, and by bringing Wesley into conversation with modern philosophers of religion he has shown the continued relevance of this great evangelist and modern saint. -- Tony Hunt -- The Living Church, 2011\u003cbr\u003e[Aldersgate and Athens] encourages believers to look less to a reasoned faith proportionate to the objective (external or public) evidence for theism and more to a faith which generates its own certainty in the encounter with God in revelation and experience. -- Graham Gould, Leyton -- The Journal of Theological Studies\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePreface\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 1 Faith and the Promises of God\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 2 Faith and Personal Experience of God\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 3 Faith and the Power of God\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 4 Faith and Divine Revelation\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Baylor University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49084170502487,"sku":"9781602582460","price":23.36,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781602582460.jpg?v=1725551279"},{"product_id":"methodist-mission-at-200-9781791015985","title":"Methodist Mission at 200","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Abingdon Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49372527067479,"sku":"9781791015985","price":11.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781791015985.jpg?v=1730163311"},{"product_id":"music-and-the-wesleys-music-and-the-wesleys-9780252035814","title":"Music and the Wesleys  Music and the Wesleys","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe music, religion, and relationships of the exceptional Wesley family\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A major contribution to our understanding of church music, the Wesley family, and concert life in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries by leading experts in the field. There is truly no competitor for this volume.\"--David W. Music, author of \u003ci\u003eChristian Hymnody in Twentieth-Century Britain and America: An Annotated Bibliography\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Excellent collection of essays. . . . The Wesley family was a remarkable dynasty and \u003ci\u003eMusic and the Wesleys\u003c\/i\u003e is a significant contribution to the examination of their legacy.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe Journal of the Association of Anglican Musicians\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEditors' Preface   \u003ci\u003evii\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Family Tree   \u003ci\u003eix\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Abbreviations   \u003ci\u003exi\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Introduction   \u003ci\u003exiii\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eNicholas Temperley\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   \u003cb\u003ePART 1: MUSIC AND METHODISM\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 1. 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Plain lives? Very many deaths from cholera and measles and other means, family strains, feuds, the moral rigor of the Methodist Church, and then the war came. People wear out. There's material here for a dozen novels: 'Mr. Pitner was turned out of the church in March, for selling men and women into perpetual bondage, as the people said. He takes it very hard, he says he has had a great deal of trouble, and we know he has for his sister was burned to death, and his two sons was drowned just at the time they began to be of some service to him but he says that this afaire hurts him worse than all the others, as he knows he is innocent of the charges brought against him. . .'\"--Ward Just\u003cbr\u003e\"Meticulously edited, the Dumville family letters vividly evoke everyday life for ordinary women in mid-19th century rural America. As the writers describe their hopes, dreams, and fates, this unique archive lets us hear voices that are often silenced, neglected or simply lost.\"--Robert Dingwall, chair of the American Sociological Association ™s Section on Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis\u003cbr\u003e\"A very useful discussion of women's place in rural Midwestern communities; the impact of the Civil War on family life; and the texture of life in these small, central Illinois towns. I don't know of any other collection quite like it.\"--Pamela Riney-Kehrberg, author of \u003ci\u003eAlways Plenty to Do: Growing Up on a Farm in the Long Ago\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The editors have a good understanding of everyday life in the rural Midwest in the mid-nineteenth century. The conclusions they draw are based solidly on the evidence provided by the letters and are informed by scholarship in the field.\"--Marilyn F. 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Thanks to the solid editorial work by the Heinzs, the voices of commoners, of lower-class people, of women in the American heartland struggling to control their destinies, are now heard and cherished.\"--\u003ci\u003eCivil War Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"University of Illinois Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400435605847,"sku":"9780252039959","price":28.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780252039959.jpg?v=1730470676"},{"product_id":"music-and-the-wesleys-9780252077678","title":"Music and the Wesleys","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe music, religion, and relationships of the exceptional Wesley family\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A major contribution to our understanding of church music, the Wesley family, and concert life in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries by leading experts in the field. There is truly no competitor for this volume.\"--David W. Music, author of \u003ci\u003eChristian Hymnody in Twentieth-Century Britain and America: An Annotated Bibliography\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Excellent collection of essays. . . . The Wesley family was a remarkable dynasty and \u003ci\u003eMusic and the Wesleys\u003c\/i\u003e is a significant contribution to the examination of their legacy.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe Journal of the Association of Anglican Musicians\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEditors' Preface   \u003ci\u003evii\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Family Tree   \u003ci\u003eix\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Abbreviations   \u003ci\u003exi\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Introduction   \u003ci\u003exiii\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eNicholas Temperley\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   \u003cb\u003ePART 1: MUSIC AND METHODISM\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 1. 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[H]er interesting new book provides an alternative to other recent books that see more of the secular than the sacred in America's past.83.1 Winter\/Spring 2015\u003c\/p\u003e * Vermont History *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eI strongly recommend Balik's book for those studying colonial religious landscapes and heritages not only in New England, but in the nineteenth-century religious diasporas that swept the continent with varying mixes of European colonials and also African and Asian heritages.\u003c\/p\u003e -- Stanley D. Brunn * University of Kentucky *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eRally the Scattered Believers is an important new interpretation of how religious change shaped American cultural identity in the early republic.\u003c\/p\u003e * Journal of American History *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e[A] deeply researched and meticulously sourced book. . . [R]eading Rally the Scattered Believers helped me to consider anew the centrality of place—and the differing ways that religious organizations organize space—in understanding religious history.9\/22\/14\u003c\/p\u003e * Religion in American History *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book's meticulous coverage of the spread of these faiths and its interpretation through the lens of geography is a strength. . . . Recommended.\u003c\/p\u003e * Choice *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eUsing church and town records, the personal writings and correspondence of laity and clergy, books, pamphlets, and religious periodicals, Balik has written an engaging, ground-level religious history with larger implications.\u003c\/p\u003e * Journal of the Early Republic *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eShelby Balik's deeply researched 'Rally the Scattered Believers: Northern New England's Religious Geography' offers a finely grained picture of that era of burgeoning development. . . . 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