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.
- ISBN10 0316860204
- ISBN13 9780316860208
- Publish Date 3 October 2002
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 12 November 2009
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Little, Brown & Company
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 464
- Language English