John Wesley: A Brand From The Burning :The Life of John Wesley

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John Wesley: A Brand From The Burning

John Wesley: A Brand From The Burning :The Life of John Wesley

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John Wesley led the Second English Reformation. His Methodist 'Connexion' was divided from the Church of England, not by dogma and doctrine but by the new relationship which it created between clergy and people. Throughout a life tortured by doubt about true faith and tormented by a series of bizarre relationships with women, Wesley kept his promise to 'live and die an ordained priest of the Established Church'. However by the end of the long pilgrimage - from the Oxford Holy Club through colonial Georgia to every market place in England - he knew that separation was inevitable. But he could not have realised that his influence on the new industrial working class would play a major part in shaping society during the century of Britain's greatest power and influence and that Methodism would become a worldwide religion and the inspiration of 20th century television evangelism.
Prizes

Short-listed for Marsh Biography Award 2003

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Type Book
ISBN13 9780349116570
ISBN10 0349116571
Number Of Pages 464
Item Weight 320 g
Product Dimensions 130 x 197 x 31 mm
Publisher / Reseller Little, Brown Book Group
Format paperback
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This is a first-class biography, lucid and always interesting... Hattersley asks all the right questions and seems incapable of writing a dull page. * INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY *
Roy Hattersley has written a full and fair biography. * NEW STATESMAN *
He can fashion an anecdote out of even the dreariest theological dispute. Indeed, a gossipy politician is the right man for the job. * MAIL ON SUNDAY *
An intellectually and theologically compelling portrait * SCOTLAND ON SUNDAY *

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Author's Bio

Roy Hattersley is a politician-turned-writer. He was elected to Parliament in 1964, and served in each of Harold Wilson's governments as well as Jim Callaghan's Cabinet before becoming deputy leader of the Labour Party in 1983. He is the author of fourteen books.

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