John Wigger

American Saint

Francis Asbury and the Methodists

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In American Saint, John Wigger has written the definitive biography of Francis Asbury and, by extension, a revealing interpretation of the early years of the Methodist movement in America.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 558
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 794g
• ISBN-13: 9780199948246
• ISBN-10: 0199948240
• Artikelnr.: 40541466

Autorenporträt

John Wigger is Professor of History at the University of Missouri.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1. The Apprentice
Chapter 2. The Young Preacher
Chapter 3. The Promise of Discipline
Chapter 4. Southern Persuasion
Chapter 5. One Revolution
Chapter 6. Leads to Another
Chapter 7. Looking Forward, Looking Backward
Chapter 8. A New Church in a New Nation
Chapter 9. "Such a time...was never seen before"
Chaper 10. "Alas for the rich! they are so soon offended"
Chapter 11. "Be not righteous over much"
Chapter 12. Schism
Chapter 13. Reconnecting
Chapter 14. "Weighed in the balances"
Chapter 15. "We were great too soon"
Chapter 16. "Down from a Joyless height"
Chapter 17. "Feel for the power"
Chapter 18. "The garden of God"
Chapter 19. "Like a moving fire"
Chapter 20. Limits
Chapter 21. "I see, I feel what is wrong in preachers and people, but I cannot make it right,"
Chapter 22. What God Allows
Chapter 23. End of the Road
Epilogue: Bending Frank
Abbreviations
Notes
Index