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1 online resource (xix, 238 pages) : illustrations |
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Front cover; Contents; Foreword; Introduction; The Themes and Contexts; The Conference; The Papers; Acknowledgments; 1. Religion, Gender, and Industry in the Eighteenth Century; 2. John Fletcher's Parishioners; 3. John Fletcher's Silent Bishop; 4. Church and Chapel; Introduction; Church Services; Church Extension: Defining the Problem; Church Extension 1760-1785; Expanded Church Services; Madeley Religious Societies and the "Chapels"; Implications of Fletcher's Ministry for Church Extension 1785-1815; Conclusion; 5. John Fletcher's Links with Mystical Methodists and Swedenborgians |
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When and How Fletcher Read SwedenborgWhy Did Fletcher Read Swedenborg?; Fletcher as the Mystical Methodist; Fletcher's Millennialism and Doctrine of Perfect Love; The Search for Theosophy; How Significant Was This Reading?; Mary Bosanquet and Spiritual Religion; Conclusion; 6. Adoring the Holy Trinity in Unity -- Introduction: Fletcher as Priest-Theologian; Fletcher's Doxological Trinitarianism: A Critical Reading; Fletcher and Two Alternatives: English Unitarianismand English Rational Theology; Following Fletcher: The Promise of Doxological Trinitarianism |
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7. Women, Work, and Worship in the Trefeca Family 1752-17738. Mothers in Christ; 9. Support Groups for Methodist Women Preachers 1803-1851; The Madeley Group; Mary and Zechariah Taft; The East Anglian Group; Conclusions; Networking; Gendered Relationships; 10. "Oh That the Mantle May Rest on Me!"; 11. Holding Tightly to the "Promise of the Father"; "The Promise of the Father"; "Baptism with the Holy Ghost"; Faith for a Victorian Church; Conclusion; 12. John Fletcher as the Theologian of Early American Methodism; Fletcher's Checks as a Doctrinal Standard; Mary Bosanquet Fletcher's Diaries |
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Bishop Asbury's Indebtedness to FletcherBishop Asbury and His Preachers Affirmed PentecostalPerfection; The Prevalence of the Fletchers' Pentecostal Nomenclature in Early American Methodism; Conclusion; 13. The Long Fletcher Incumbency; Contributors; Back cover |
| Summary |
A collection of essays that aim to consider broad questions of the role of religion in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Britain by studying a single geographical area. Coalbrookdale in the parish of Madeley, Shropshire is seen as the ""birthplace of the industrial revolution"" while remaining one of the last examples of a Methodist parish in England. These works engage with a variety of areas of study: Methodism's roots and growth in relation to the Church of England, religion and gender in eighteenth century Britain, and religion and the emergence of an industrial society, and do |
| Notes |
Essays originally presented at a conference held June 16-18, 2009 at the Telford (Priorslee) campus of the University of Wolverhampton with some sessions at Madeley and Ironbridge |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Fletcher, John, 1729-1785 -- Congresses
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| SUBJECT |
Fletcher, John, 1729-1785 fast |
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Methodism -- History -- 18th century -- Congresses
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Methodism -- History -- 19th century -- Congresses
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Methodism -- Doctrines
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RELIGION -- Christianity -- Methodist.
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HISTORY -- Europe -- Great Britain.
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Methodism
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Methodism -- Doctrines
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Madeley (Shropshire, England) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2007106281
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England -- Madeley (Shropshire)
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings
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History
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Hammond, Geordan, editor.
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Forsaith, Peter S., editor.
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Hindmarsh, D. Bruce
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| ISBN |
9780227900130 |
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0227900138 |
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