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Author Wigger, John H., 1959-

Title American saint : Francis Asbury and the Methodists / John Wigger
Published New York : Oxford University Press, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 543 pages) : illustrations
Series Oxford scholarship online
Oxford scholarship online.
Oxford scholarship online. Religion module
Contents 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 -- Epilogue: bending Frank
Summary In this biography Asbury emerges as an effective, influential leader. Drawing on a wide variety of sources, John Wigger reveals how Asbury crafted a church to engage ordinary Americans and their world. Under him, Methodism exerted a powerful pull on American culture, but was itself transformed in the process
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Asbury, Francis, 1745-1816.
SUBJECT Asbury, Francis, 1745-1816 fast
Asbury, Francis 1745-1816 gnd
Asbury, Francis. idszbz
Subject Methodist Episcopal Church -- Bishops -- Biography
SUBJECT Methodist Episcopal Church fast
Subject BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Religious.
RELIGION -- Christianity -- Methodist.
Bishops
Methodismus.
Metodister -- Förenta staterna.
USA.
Genre/Form Biographies
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
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