The Letters of Charles Wesley: A Critical Edition, with Introduction and Notes: Volume 2 (1757-1788)

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Kenneth G. C. Newport (Pro Vice-Chancellor (Academic), Pro Vice-Chancellor (Academic), Liverpool Hope University) Gareth Lloyd (Archivist, Nonconformist Collections, Archivist, Nonconformist Collections, John Rylands Library)

The Letters of Charles Wesley

A Critical Edition, with Introduction and Notes: Volume 2 (1757-1788)

Kenneth G. C. Newport (Pro Vice-Chancellor (Academic), Pro Vice-Chancellor (Academic), Liverpool Hope University), Gareth Lloyd (Archivist, Nonconformist Collections, Archivist, Nonconformist Collections, John Rylands Library)

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Oxford University Press
21 October 2021

Autobiography: historical, political & military; Autobiography: religious & spiritual; Diaries, letters & journals; Church history; Methodist Churches

This second volume of a two volume edition contains letters written between 1757 and 1788, along with some undated letters, by the famous hymn writer, poet, and co-founder of Methodism, Charles Wesley (1707-1788). The edition brings together texts which are located in libraries and archives from across the globe and here presents them in transcribed form for the first time - many of the letters have never been previously published. The appended notes help the reader locate the letters in their proper historical and literary context and provide full information regarding the location of the original source and, where possible, something of its provenance. These texts provide an intimate glimpse into the world of early Methodism and Charles's own struggles and triumphs as a central figure within it. They collectively document the story of Charles Wesley's experiences later in his life as a leader of the Methodist movement and, of key importance for Charles, Methodism's place in the wider purposes of God. Here are letters of a theological kind, letters that reflect on his experiences as an itinerant preacher, letters that show something of his rather unsettled personality and letters that relate to his own personal and domestic, circumstances. Here we see something of the inner workings of a nascent religious group. These are not sanitised accounts written by those looking back, but first-hand accounts written from the heart of a lived experience. While this book will naturally appeal to those who have a specialist interest in the early history of Methodism, for others there is much to be gained from the picture it gives of the wider eighteenth-century world in which Charles and his co-religionists worked and lived.

Edited by: Kenneth G. C. Newport (Pro Vice-Chancellor (Academic) Pro Vice-Chancellor (Academic) Liverpool Hope University), Gareth Lloyd (Archivist, Nonconformist Collections, Archivist, Nonconformist Collections, John Rylands Library)
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 240mm, Width: 162mm, Spine: 38mm
Weight: 1g
ISBN: 9780199259977
ISBN 10: 0199259976
Pages: 560
Publication Date: 21 October 2021
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Kenneth G. C. Newport, Pro Vice-Chancellor (Academic), Liverpool Hope University, Gareth Lloyd, Archivist, Nonconformist Collections, John Rylands Library

Reviews for The Letters of Charles Wesley: A Critical Edition, with Introduction and Notes: Volume 2 (1757-1788)

a monumental contribution to scholarship around Charles Wesley, and thereby to the whole religious and cultural context of his times. * Peter S. Forsaith, Wesley and Methodist Studies *