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American saint : Francis Asbury and the methodists / John Wigger.

Wigger, John H., 1959-
2009
287.092 A799w 2009
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Title
American saint : Francis Asbury and the methodists / John Wigger.
Author
Wigger, John H., 1959-
ISBN
9780195387803
0195387805
Imprint
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
Language
English
Description
xi, 543 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Call Number
287.092 A799w 2009
System Control No.
(OCoLC)304386078
(OCoLC)304386078
Summary
Asbury single-handedly guided the creation of the American Methodist church, which became the largest Protestant denomination in nineteenth-century America, and laid the foundation of the Holiness and Pentecostal movements that flourish today. John Wigger has written the definitive biography of Asbury and, by extension, a revealing interpretation of the early years of the Methodist movement in America. --from publisher description
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [423]-525) and index.
Formatted Contents Note
The apprentice
The young preacher
The promise of discipline
Southern persuasion
One revolution
Leads to another
Looking forward, looking backward
A new church in a new nation
"Such a time
was never seen before"
"Alas for the rich! they are so soon offended"
"Be not righteous over much"
Schism
Reconnecting
"Weighed in the balances"
"We were great too soon"
"Down from a Joyless height"
"Feel for the power"
"The garden of God"
"Like a moving fire"
Limits
"I see, I feel what is wrong in preachers and people, but I cannot make it right"
What God allows
End of the road
Bending Frank.
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