Susanna Wesley: The Complete WritingsOxford University Press, 26 jun 1997 - 528 páginas Susanna Wesley, long celebrated in Methodist mythology as mother of the movement's founders, now takes place as a practical theologian in her own right. This collection of her letters, spiritual diary, and longer treatises (only one of which was published in her lifetime) shows her to be more than the nurturing mother of Wesleyan legend. It also reveals her to be a well-educated woman in conversation with contemporary theological, philosophical, and literary works. Her quotations and allusions include Locke, Pascal, and Herbert, as well as a number of now forgotten theologians. In some of her work, one can distinguish doctrinal and spiritual leanings, such as Arminianism and Christian perfection, that would later find wide expression in the spread of Methodism. Further, her writings demonstrate her readiness, for conscience's sake, to stand up to the men in her life--father, husband, and sons---and the three incarnations of English Protestantism they represented: respectively, Puritanism, the Established Church, and the new Methodist movement. Tracing these incidents in her letters and diaries, a reader can begin to understand how spirituality, even an otherwise conservative one in rather restrictive times, can serve to empower the voice of women. |
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... Prayers Controversy 6. An Age of Reason—and Credulity 7. A Rich Brother in India 8. Advice to an Oxford Man 9. Distinction at Oxford, Scandal at Home 10. A Continuing Cure of Souls 11. Advisor to the Holy Club 12. More Advice, More ...
... Prayers Controversy 6. An Age of Reason—and Credulity 7. A Rich Brother in India 8. Advice to an Oxford Man 9. Distinction at Oxford, Scandal at Home 10. A Continuing Cure of Souls 11. Advisor to the Holy Club 12. More Advice, More ...
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... Prayer Adam Clarke, Memoirs of the Wesley Family, Collected Principally from Original Documents (New York: N. Bangs and T. Mason for the Methodist Episcopal Church, 1824) Dictionary of National Biography Frank Baker, ed., Letters, I ...
... Prayer Adam Clarke, Memoirs of the Wesley Family, Collected Principally from Original Documents (New York: N. Bangs and T. Mason for the Methodist Episcopal Church, 1824) Dictionary of National Biography Frank Baker, ed., Letters, I ...
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... Prayer according to Act of Uniformity. Following the practice of many other displaced Puritans, he organized a congregation of likeminded Nonconformists, occasionally running afoul of the laws penalizing such religious Dissenters. His ...
... Prayer according to Act of Uniformity. Following the practice of many other displaced Puritans, he organized a congregation of likeminded Nonconformists, occasionally running afoul of the laws penalizing such religious Dissenters. His ...
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... prayer for the king one evening in late 1701 or early 1702. Though both were High Church and Tory, Samuel was ... prayers was noted by the rector, who confronted her and, when she refused to recant,
... prayer for the king one evening in late 1701 or early 1702. Though both were High Church and Tory, Samuel was ... prayers was noted by the rector, who confronted her and, when she refused to recant,
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... prayer in favor of an irregular Sunday evening service conducted by Mrs. Wesley in the rectory kitchen. Wesley wrote ... prayers, and when the circle of attenders widened and servants' families and then the general public sought to ...
... prayer in favor of an irregular Sunday evening service conducted by Mrs. Wesley in the rectory kitchen. Wesley wrote ... prayers, and when the circle of attenders widened and servants' families and then the general public sought to ...
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JOURNALS | |
Introduction to the Journals | |
First Surviving Entries | |
Keep a Due Guard over Your Words | |
You Write What Is Familiar to You by Practice | |
But What Do You Think? | |
Bend the Whole Force of the Mind in a Serious Use of the Ways | |
The Most Blest and Happy Day | |
The Rectory Fire | |
The Evening Prayers Controversy | |
An Age of Reasonand Credulity | |
A Rich Brother in India | |
Advice to an Oxford | |
Distinction at Oxford Scandal at Home | |
A Continuing Cure of Souls | |
Advisor to the Holy Club | |
More Advice More Concern | |
A Widow and a Supportive Critic of Revival | |
Last Letters | |
These Blessed Lucid Intervals | |
To Feel a Vital Joy Overspread and Cheer the Heart | |
Introduction to the Writings | |
The Apostles Creed Explicated in a Letter to Her Daughter | |
A Brief Unfinished Exposition | |
A Religious Conference between Mother and Emilia | |
Some Remarks on a Letter from Whitefield | |
Bibliography | |
Index | |
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