Autorentext

S T Kimbrough, Jr., a leading Charles Wesley scholar and Research Fellow of the Center for Studies in the Wesleyan Tradition of Duke Divinity School, has taught on theological faculties in the USA and abroad. He has edited numerous books of global song and has previously published a number of volumes with Wipf and Stock, including The Lyrical Theology of Charles Wesley; Radical Grace; Participation in the Life Divine; May She Have a Word with You; and three books of poetry. Carlton R. Young is Emeritus Professor of Church Music at Candler School of Theology, Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. He has edited two authorized hymnals for United Methodists, and compiled a number of collections of congregational song which include his settings of texts by Charles Wesley. He is USA Editor, emeritus, for The Canterbury Dictionary of Hymnology.

Klappentext

This is the fifth volume of Wesley's Journal to appear in the critical edition of The Work of John Wesley. Covering the decade from mid-1765 to the beginning of 1776, it contains four "Extracts" of Wesley's Journal (14-17) that document--in Wesley's own words--a significant period of growth and controversy in the Methodist movement. He describes in some detail the continuing spread of the revival into the farther reaches of the British Isles, the points of contention that threaten to disrupt the progress of the revival, his widening involvement in social issues such as the slave trade, the various attempts at union with the Church of England, and the spread of the Wesleyan movement to the American colonies.